Talked to apple support about this problem about not being able to purchase, I was able to add 10$ to the App Store, made a purchase and the apple tech support indicated that the purchase went through on their end... Kind of time sensitive since I have YouTube subscribers waiting for a new video.
The restore purchase or loading the purchases is weird in the app and should be fixed. Adding alternative payments or shifting the application to a web download app so people could use external payments easier would be really nice...