Apple ID Moving country

I've moved from Ireland to the UK and am now getting paid in GBP, so I decided i'd move my Apple ID to the UK store (even though I like the Irish top app charts more) I found that after I move my account to UK and add a UK Card all my previous app purchases on the Mac App store and on the iOS App store are no longer in my 'Purchased' tab. This is really annoying, I believe I can download any of the old apps i've purchased and a message pops up explaining that I can re download for free, but it's really not a good solution. Anyone know what else won't work correctly now? will iCloud backups or iMessage mess up too? This sucks - any fix to this ridiculous problem?

How can apple be so sloppy on this?

Solution 1:

Eventually I had to call Apple senior support to fix this.