Actually, I also had the feeling that they were fixing something internally and that's why faxes would get "missing" and week long no replies. Whatever it is - it seems to be fixed now.

It's in the FAQ somewhere. It's a standard practise I believe. You just need to email someone and they convert it, assuming you have the papers.

Not relevant. I'm not doing this for PR.

This seems strange. I understand not volunteering the info, but if someone asks I don't see a problem with letting them know. You may not be asking for PR but you can always use it.

See below.

okay, it's clearly not about PR - you haven't mentioned the name yet. but i'm still very curious, and at this point i don't think it would distract from the intention of this post.

Actually, the real reason I don't want to tell the app is that it's linked to my name rather obviously, and I don't want people to know that I was that broke.

ah, okay - that's fair enough. the real reason i'm curious is that i want to quit my job and publish my own software.

would you be comfortable telling us what category the app falls into, or giving a sense of what it does? can you say what kind of marketing went into attaining those sales?

I can tell you something - absolutely do not quit your job till you are making $3000 in sales. The Apple iTunes store is a very very fickle baby. It's like a wild horse that is always bucking and trying to throw you off, and to stay on you keep having to think faster and anticipate its moves.

No matter how great your idea is, the Apple store will be unforgiving as hell. There is a LOT to be learned, and while you are learning it, you will need to have a job, because something needs to pay for the mistakes.

Wrong.

Do not quit your day job until you have BEEN PAID $3000 in the bank. Until you can go to the ATM and take out some of that $3000.

Have you not learned anything from this experience?

It's easy to be forgiving when you have $15.000 in the bank :)

Well, there are two things you can do to be the inside on Apple:

1. Get the number of a reviewer. If you have been publishing apps for a while they will call you and give you their number

2. Get the number and email address of one of the higher ups in iTunesConnect. I have one of those, but I obviously am not going to give it out, I think he would probably not be happy to get everyone bypass the staff filter :)

Most important tip is this:

Apple have many different sections for many different tasks. Email the relevant people directly! If you have a banking issue, email banking. If it is iTunesConnect, email them, if it is developer acccount related, mail the developer relations.

Man, I'm going through the routine right now. I wanted to become an iTunes affiliate for an iPhone app I'm about to submit. Apple a) does not clearly state what iPhone developers need to do since affiliates are typically websites b) sends you a generic rejection email and forces you to wait two weeks to reapply while you are scratching your head guessing what they want. So I've been calling linkshare, who are very helpful and clearly want to make money. Yet I send blind emails to apple crossing my fingers for a response.

There was no press at all, for all I know.

Sure. I wanted limited liability, and England is the only Euro country where you do not need to put out €10.000 or so to have such a company. It's also very fast and cheap, and all can be done via internet. Seemed like a good idea at the time.

Ok. I think your main problem right now is that you are falling in the 'anti money laundering' category from the point of view of the bank.

As for liability, for an Iphone application I think that since the transaction is between the customer and Apple that you are more or less out of the windy zone anyway, the only one I can think of that would apply would be gross negligence, but since Apple reviews the Applications they might even have to take the heat for that one.

Presumably the only party that could sue you with some chance of success would be Apple.

You can't setup a business bank account with an english ltd if one of the directors does not live in england. I checked that option already, england is not too far.

So all you need is an english director.

Move to England?

I do have an english LTD. I cannot sit down with the bank, because it is a private account. I cannot make a business account because the english ltd is not recognized.

I am not familiar with the laws out in England. What do you mean it is not recognized? I had assumed that to have an English limited company, you have to register it here. I make this assumption because all corporations and limited liability companies in the US has to file paperwork with the State Secretary in their home state... otherwise it isn't an entity.

Now I'm really curious. I'm going to forward this link to a friend of mine out in Manchester. He's set up his own limited company so he may know what you're talking about.

The UK business was registered. Over the internet.

Why ? What was your reason for doing it this way in the first place, that's what I can't get my head wrapped around.

As someone from Austria I can easily understand why he created a UK LTD without actually living there.

Take Austria for example, you need to have €35000 in equity (I hope that is the right financial vocabulary) to start a GmbH - a company type similar to an LTD in terms of liability.

In the EU there is a ruling that you can create a company in any EU state, without actually living there. Of course you still have to obey the laws (of both countries) regarding taxes.

So if you want limited liability but you don't have enough cash upfront, a UK LTD can be a good idea. But you usually create a UK bank account for your company after incorporating.