giradman said:Hi Pete - welcome to the forum!
Agree w/ Kay, i.e. you need an account at the Apple store which will require providing credit card information, so not unexpected.
But my main reason for responding is to suggest that you remove your email address as your location; spammers can use email harvesting software to grab that address and possibly inundate you w/ spam - yikes! :thumbsdown:
Just setup an iTunes account and set the payment method to none so it doesn't ask for credit card.