Gangnam-gu, Seoul -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/15/2011 -- Apple released Mac OS X Lion last week, and in its full review, PCMag said it was "hands-down the best consumer OS on the market today." But would you pay $4,000 for it? According to MacRumors, John Christman bought Lion on July 23 for $31.79, the price after tax. But then, for unexplained reasons, his PayPal account was charged another 121 times, adding up to a grand total of $3,878.40. Christman certainly didn't mean to buy Lion for himself and 121 of his friends. He said Apple and PayPal blamed each other, and neither company would claim fault for the mistake. "Apple blames PayPal, PayPal blames Apple," he told MacRumors. "They both are claiming to investigate but I am stuck broke for three days now. Apple claims there was only one transaction. When I told PayPal to dispute them, they closed the cases and marked the items as refunded on the 23rd. Bear in mind this money was taken and never returned yet." So what caused the overcharge? Christman thinks it could be tied to an iCloud feature that lets iTunes automatically download past purchases. He told MacRumors he "fresh installed Lion" because his system needed to be upgraded before installation. "I logged into our developer account and got the latest iTunes Beta, and installed it," he continued. "iTunes has a cool new feature to download all your purchased apps for you. I clicked download all. As each download started, it charged me $31.79. Some apps came fast, some took longer, but the timing was directly related to when a new app started to download." In all, he downloaded 116 apps, though some downloads had to be restarted before they were complete. Meanwhile, the accidental charges have left Christman in the red, despite his PayPal account marking the purchases as "refunded." http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2389271,00.asp By Leslie Horn