"My son racked up £1k bill on Xbox"
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Oh god the steam christmas sales, I had to put my wallet out of sight for that. I only did end up paying around 50 bucks but I thought I only spent 20. CURSE YOU GABE NEWELL FOR TAKING MY MONIES!LightningBanks said:
OT: Kid was stupid, parent was ignorant. She seriously didn't notice the charges for a whole 6 months?
I am pretty sure this is something like 10% the kids fault and 90% the moms fault. It was bad for the kid to just spend all that money. It was irresponsible for the mother to leave her account information in the hands of an 11-year-old. However it was horrendously irresponsible for the mother to just not know all the charges for her card and be blind-sided by that charge. I don't know about you guys but I go over all of my charges online every week to prevent this sort of thing. Her laptop being broken is no excuse. She had so many other options to catch this before it got this bad. I have no sympathy for this woman. It is one thing if the kid spent £1,000 in a few days or a week. However, someone should have caught on to the fact that this kid was spending that much money over 6 months.DesiPrinceX09 said:
Oh my... I want to feel bad, but I can't help but laugh at her irresponsility. I knew damn well at 11 not to mess with my parents money. £1000 in 6 months. Just... amazing. Though she should have been checking. She should have been paying attention to her expenditures. Oh, well. Lesson learned.
What the world did he end up buying for that much money over a six month period? He had to have downloaded and deleted countless arcade games and all that stuff because it's crazy to think he put that much money into it. Unless he bought like a million MSP and just never used them or something. At a certain point shouldn't her bank have notified her that hey, your out of money? Still though, stupid mother for not paying attention to her child. Also for not having automatic updates on her account
A combination of bad parenting and just an obtuse system.
Xbox is horrendous with dealing with credit cards, it make me rage every time that you have to call them up physically to remove a card. You wait like 20 minutes on the phone, finally get to a customer support person and you have to wade through a series of "verifying questions" to get them to remove the damn thing and most of the time they will tell you that you need an alternate credit card if you want to remove the current one. Then I have to talk to a manager to finally get no cards on the damn thing. Xbox really needs to get rid of this BS means of dealing with credit cards.
Xbox is horrendous with dealing with credit cards, it make me rage every time that you have to call them up physically to remove a card. You wait like 20 minutes on the phone, finally get to a customer support person and you have to wade through a series of "verifying questions" to get them to remove the damn thing and most of the time they will tell you that you need an alternate credit card if you want to remove the current one. Then I have to talk to a manager to finally get no cards on the damn thing. Xbox really needs to get rid of this BS means of dealing with credit cards.
As funny as this is and somewhat deserving of pure ignorance, I hope they don't wind up losing anything over this, since she can't pay off the bills at the moment.
has anyone here seen the marshmellow test? I wonder at what age you start being able to pass it.
(for those that don't know the marshmallow test is where you give a child a marshmallow and tell them if they don't eat it now, when you come back you'll give them two marshmallows. And they almost always fail)
I think the test is supposed to show that kids don't really understand "the future" course a good ass beating instilled fear of stepping over a line, because kids can understand pain. (or at least I did when I was a kid)
And of course I could just be talking out of my ass, I'm not a physiologist just some guy that reads forums on the net.
Edit: I should also recount my first experience with a checking account and "personal" overdraft privilege. When I was 16 I got my first account and then basically wound up dropping alot of money I didn't have on Magic cards, until I was basically in the hole 300 bucks. My mom took my entire magic collection and sold it for basically whole sale leave me 100 short, and so I also had to sell my Gameboy and most of my games to the local pawn shop. It...was a lesson I'll never forget and I always now budget my spending.
(for those that don't know the marshmallow test is where you give a child a marshmallow and tell them if they don't eat it now, when you come back you'll give them two marshmallows. And they almost always fail)
I think the test is supposed to show that kids don't really understand "the future" course a good ass beating instilled fear of stepping over a line, because kids can understand pain. (or at least I did when I was a kid)
And of course I could just be talking out of my ass, I'm not a physiologist just some guy that reads forums on the net.
Edit: I should also recount my first experience with a checking account and "personal" overdraft privilege. When I was 16 I got my first account and then basically wound up dropping alot of money I didn't have on Magic cards, until I was basically in the hole 300 bucks. My mom took my entire magic collection and sold it for basically whole sale leave me 100 short, and so I also had to sell my Gameboy and most of my games to the local pawn shop. It...was a lesson I'll never forget and I always now budget my spending.
I love how they try to look like victims on the photo to the article.
As already said;
1. Sell kids stuff.
3. Make him miserable.
7. ?!?!?!
210. Profit!
Hard to remember how I was when I was 11, but I do think I would know that I was spending real money. The mother is not blameless however.
As already said;
1. Sell kids stuff.
3. Make him miserable.
7. ?!?!?!
210. Profit!
Hard to remember how I was when I was 11, but I do think I would know that I was spending real money. The mother is not blameless however.
If I were his Dad, (unless he could prove that it was a life or death situation), I would take away the power cable, video output cable and all the controllers I could find for that console and not let him have them back until he got a job and paid it off.
Both are at fault, the mother for not keeping track of her credit card and for GIVING her son the credit card, and the idiot child because he knew VERY WELL what he was spending.
People don't have self-control anymore.
By the way, my mother gets really mad at me when I spend too much of MY money (too much = ~$10) on food, that kid had better be glad he's not my brother.
People don't have self-control anymore.
By the way, my mother gets really mad at me when I spend too much of MY money (too much = ~$10) on food, that kid had better be glad he's not my brother.
my little brother did this to my mum, not 1000 pounds, but probably at least 400.
needless to say she was furious and grounded him for 3 months
needless to say she was furious and grounded him for 3 months
So here is a good way to look at this. PARENTING FAIL!!! I wouldn't even let an eleven year old CHILD touch my credit card. Way to fail dumb-ass. but seriously, that kid is a dick.