Is it possible to publish an app to Windows Phone Marketplace as _free_ and later change the price?

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Is it possible to publish an app to Windows Phone Marketplace as free and later change the price of the very same app, without changing anything else? I mean the stats, reviews etc remains in this case, the app is the same, the price raised from free to some value after a promo time period, say 3 months.

I know that it is possible with Apple AppStore, I also know it is not possible with Android Market (btw what about Amazon Android store?, but this is out of topic here)

Unfortunately I did not find related info about WP7/WP7.5 Marketplace.

Thx for answers

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Yes, it's possible. With the one limit that users that have already "purchased" the application (for $0), won't be asked to pay for it when you change the price.

Not even if they re-install the app.

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It is probably possible (at least it was) as I remember a bug where apps that converted from free to paid could not be updated by the end-user and that very same bug also existed with apps that have trial versions.

Edit: I'm pretty sure you can change from free to paid, but for the other way, your app needs certification again which means republishing it. MSDN especially states that special condition.