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December 23, 2025
Question

Unable to purchase anything

  • December 23, 2025
  • 8 replies
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Hi everyone,

I’m posting here because I’ve been dealing with a very frustrating Meta Store issue for a long time, and so far nothing has resolved it.

Since getting my Meta Quest 3, I’ve basically been unable to buy any games or apps at all:
- Purchases fail with Quest Cash
- Purchases also fail with credit cards
- I constantly get a “Feature unavailable” error

What makes this even more confusing:
- I have successfully made purchases in the past on this same account using a credit card
- I’ve been in contact with Meta Support for a long time, but the issue is still unresolved
- I even created a brand-new Meta account just to test — the problem still happens
- I tested with a reputable paid VPN
- I tried different browsers and networks
- I performed a full factory reset on the headset

None of these steps made any difference.

At this point, this has been a really bad experience overall. Since buying the Meta Quest 3, I haven’t been able to properly use the store at all — I can’t buy games with a credit card, and I can’t even use my Quest Cash balance.

I’m sharing this to ask:
- Is anyone else experiencing the same issue?
- Has anyone managed to fully resolve this, and how?

Any feedback or confirmation would be greatly appreciated. This really feels like a deeper account or backend issue rather than a local setup problem.

Thanks.

 

8 replies

Participant
December 27, 2025

same here

Participant
December 28, 2025

Apparently this problem is very widespread, because many users are facing this problem on Reddit and here
I even told a friend of mine in another country to test with a new account, he had never joined Meta, but he still faced this ridiculous error for no reason

New Participant
January 6, 2026

I have the same exact problem! How can this be so widespread? I just bought 3 or 4 things from the store, now I'm flagged? And no help available. Unbelievable!

 

Choleni
Honored Contributor
January 6, 2026

MikoDePiko​ maybe this can help to avoid being flagged

https://vrpupu.us/2025/09/12/meta-store-purchase-request-failed-2025/ 

Inspiring
March 27, 2026

I have $100 balance from gift cards, have a brand new Quest 3 VR, wanted to use part of my balance to buy extended warranty, was told can only buy games and apps. I am 70 years old, what could I get that is for old farts! the customer service o Meta help gave me a link to the legal info on Account balances... some rotten lawyer wrote it to say it means nothing. I tried to see what they have and it is not fun trying to find anything good. The gift cards should be illegal if they do not spell it out in readable terms people can understand, A 'gift card' is used to steal people's money in this case. IMHO (btw, the new Quest 3 is replacing my old Oculus.

Asus Strix Z790-H, Intel 13900 CPU. Nivida RTX 5070-TI OC video. 64 GB Ram.  5TB SSD memory. Oculus Rift S.
Choleni
Honored Contributor
March 27, 2026

Hi SSPalmer​ 🙂

SSPalmer wrote:

The gift cards should be illegal if they do not spell it out in readable terms people can understand

It is spelled out on each gift card that they are only for games and apps, not for hardware or any other things.