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.
Sure, then the parent should have to file charges against the person who made the fraudulent charges. If that person is a minor, their parents are on the hook.
Some people legitimately spend these amounts on these games. Genshin Impact made something like 25 million it's first weekend.
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.
Shit like this has nothing to do with a jury. Ignorance of the law is no excuse...stop making excuses for dumb cunts
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