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I'm amazed that this is still an issue years later, but here we are.
You can (or at least you used to be able to) get around this issue by going to the play store in your web browser (logged into the account you want the app installed under) and using the "install to my phone" tool. It'll eventually install the app on your phone, and it should display the correct payment options.
I have to do this myself soon as I'm having a similar issue with a different app, but it's such an annoyance that I haven't bothered yet.
I'll try this out. It just amazes me how adamant and inflexible with its pay functionality.
You'd think that considering they want our money, they would make it as easy as possible for us to give them our money.
Google has never been smart about money.
Thanks a lot, it worked.
Glad to help, dumbfuq!
Would this get around the in-app purchases not getting recognized issues, too? I had a particularly stubborn app that had no backup(accubattery) option. To use it seamlessly, I had to repurchase from my secondary account for good measure as it did not recognize my purchase from my primary account.
I'd bet it would. Apps seem to randomly decide they want to be associated with the wrong account (particularly their Google Pay association), so I'd bet re-associating it to the correct account using the browser trick would fix in-app purchase associations as well. But I've not tried it for IAP, so I can't say with any certainty that it would work.