Boy, 4, "accidentally" buys $2.6K worth of SpongeBob Popsicles on Amazon using mother's account

[basquebromance]

been there done that, except instead of popsicles it was Ann Coulter audiobooks!

Boy, 4, accidentally buys $2.6K worth of SpongeBob Popsicles on Amazon

That’s one way to freeze a bank account: A 4-year-old cartoon fanatic from NYC went a little overboard buying nonrefundable frozen treats.

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[$ecular#eckler]

This 6-year-old racked up $16K on mom’s credit card playing video games

Well, someone has made Santa’s naughty list. Six-year-old George Johnson secretly racked up more than $16,000 in Apple app store charges for his favorite video game, Sonic Forces — leaving his mom …

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“It’s like my 6-year-old was doing lines of cocaine — and doing bigger and bigger hits,” she joked of her first-grader.

 

[Yarddog]

been there done that, except instead of popsicles it was Ann Coulter audiobooks!

Boy, 4, accidentally buys $2.6K worth of SpongeBob Popsicles on Amazon

That’s one way to freeze a bank account: A 4-year-old cartoon fanatic from NYC went a little overboard buying nonrefundable frozen treats.

nypost.com

Sweet story !

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Accident my ass!

 

[JOSweetHeart]

No refund on something that could be melted by the time it gets to the buyer? To me, that's a lawsuit waiting to happen.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

Maybe businesses should have to confirm an unusual order that big.

 

[struth]

I've considered doing something like this myself..."accidently" with Klondike bars....

 

[Resnic]

Maybe businesses should have to confirm an unusual order that big.

Maybe parents should just have better control over their accounts, credit card info, devices they allow their kids on and such. It's not a businesses job to make sure bad purchases are made.

I'm sure plenty of purchase like that are made all the time by schools, daycares, etc. It's not Amazon's job to police it's customers.

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

Maybe businesses should have to confirm an unusual order that big.

Maybe parents should just have better control over their accounts, credit card info, devices they allow their kids on and such. It's not a businesses job to make sure bad purchases are made.

I'm sure plenty of purchase like that are made all the time by schools, daycares, etc. It's not Amazon's job to police it's customers.

I said unusual orders. The examples you gave would be usual.

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

Little fker would be sittin crooked for the rest of his life.

 

[whitehall]

I can barely navigate Amazon's on line junk. Are four year old children so proficient in internet commerce that they can drain a bank account? I doubt it.