Apple receipt - original_purchase_date has date before app creation

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I'm a bit confused with this. So following this approach I got json which contains bunch of decrypted fields. Among them original_purchase_date.

What I need is to track if application was purchased before this new version becomes free and I think I need to use this field for that. But for some reason on sandbox environment it shows date

"original_purchase_date" = "2013-08-01 07:00:00 Etc/GMT";

which is couple of years before application was made.

So right now I'm not sure

  1. Why it shows that date.

  2. Is original_purchase_date really the field I need to track.

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