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When you are marketing something to kids, like kids games, you have a responsibility too.
Yep. Encouraging kids to incur thousands of dollars of digital "debt" for fake items is absolute nonsense. They should be lucky to be merely told " you don't get to keep that money".
You're forgetting one important part to this equation:
Someone had to give this kid the money.
On top of that: why was he given a card with the ability to charge $16,000?
I don't feel bad for this kids parents at all. Let it be a good lesson to what happens when you don't pay attention to what your kids are doing online.
Amen
They really don't...whoever owns that tablet (hint it can't be a minor) is on the hook and clicked yes to the TOS, while also handing her child an almost blank cheque (she did have to leave her credit card info in, right?)
Tell that to the pro pedo cartoons
if it's the bartender's fault the customer leaves drunk and causes an accident then it must be the game company's fault...
You don't think the credit card company/phone company bear any responsibility for this?
No. She left her payment details on her device and her kid spent money. If a kid nicks their parent’s bank card and goes on a spending spree is the bank responsible for the parent’s failure to secure their own bank card? Same thing here.
Their fraud department should have caught that.
I guess it depends on the degree to which the OS made it clear the details would be retained and reused without any verification. Like if she actively turned on some feature which allowed "one click purchases" or something then ok, her fault. If it was some default thing then I think it's harder to argue she actually authorised any of this.
I do agree customers have some responsibility to secure their own payment credentials, but it goes both ways.
Look into how things went when kids used to rack up phonebills dialing into internet or BBS
Bit different imo in the sense that the subscriber to a phone service is knowingly incurring a debt for whatever calls are made, although I think the same argument could be made for those premium phone lines or long distance calls. Just saying "please ensure the billing party is aware you are making this call" isn't enough for me if I were on a jury.
In this case I doubt this woman knew buying an iphone meant giving her kid a blank check. She thought she was just going to have to pay for phone calls and text messages.
Thank you brother for saying what should obviously be the top comment.
Try parenting your darn kids and taking them outside instead of letting them play 8 hours of Jew tube vid games per day.
I remember being a kid playing outside. We got into some serious shit. Parents just sent us outside to get us out of their hair. So ironically, this parent is likely a helicopter parent and had no idea their kid could get into so much trouble online in an app game.
My point: parents are clueless when self absorbed ass holes, they were back in the day 70's and are now. The narrative of kids not being seen as a blessing has been lost long ago.
A "Helicopter parent" and someone who allows their kid to spend 16K on their tablet are not the same thing :) You have it correct how the "outdoor" kids of yore were often JUST as ignored and I know I could have (or maybe did?) 16 grand worth of damage as a youth.
I did say “taking them outside” for a reason.
I meant take your kids to the woods, teach them how to make a fire from scratch, how to fish, how to build something from wood, show them the coolest spots to commune with nature. Hard for kids to do damage when you are with them and encouraging them to explore the world along with you.
Weird how there weren't kikes hiding in every bush outdoors waiting to trick you into spending all of your parents' money.
You retards clearly don't understand how kikes operate. Society has never, and will never, ever, in a billion years, be exclusively composed of 180 IQ, ultra-aware people who never make mistakes, who are never mislead or conned, who are always on the ball 24/7.
I can only assume most of you idiots are lolberts, and that's why you have this "be perfect or you deserve to die" moron mentality. It's the exact mentality that leaves our culture/race so vulnerable to people who know how to exploit it. Good cultures prohibit predatory kikery from targeting normies and destroying their entire society.
You retards need to get off your rugged individualist high horse. Chances are this mom is just a normal, decent human being doing what she can in and increasingly fucked up world. She didn't realize that an innocent looking game for kids was designed to manipulate and con impressionable/impulsive people out of thousands of dollars.
The fact that you think the problem is with her and not the kikery, is exactly why our society is so kiked to begin with. Fucking brings my blood to a boil reading this idiocy, you fuckheads need a clue.
It reminds me of the Chinese mentality, where the victim of a con is shamed, instead of the conman. In their view, if you are dumb enough to get conned, you deserve to get conned.
You’re a dipshit
This is all stupid
Exactly. It's the fault "mother"
Thank you! The company probably should refund the money but the notion that they are evil and NO burden on responsability rests with the parent is BAD FOR KIDS (and bad for that parent). Maybe the notion that her kid's actions could gasp effect her financially will motivate her to pay attention.
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