Girl Spends £250 on facebook

The father is 100% at fault, should have logged out of paypal. Suck it up, learn a lesson and get in with life. Don't get the sun involved next time.
 
How do these kind of things make the news? Do they actually ring the papers themselves and say ''lols guess what my kid done''.
 
you dont get auto logged into paypal, I never have, also with that petville game you can purchase so many petcash but you have to login to paypal each time to purchase set ammounts, it's more like his missus got addicted to buying stuff and then they tried to blame the kid to try and get the money back
 
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From my understand he was actually next to her supervising.

The reason he was charged was because he only allowed her on HIS facebook account with him supervising. Because, you know, shes seven, and her own account would have been kinda stupid (plus dont you have to be 12 or something to have one in the first place)

Those games have two sides to them. The 'free side' where your using the ingame currency and doesnt cost a penny. But users typically have the option of using real life money to 'fast track' themselves if they cant be bothered making the ingame currency or want to get ahead of their friends.

Unfortauntly since he was logged onto Paypal (probably through facebook, the idiot) and his daughter will have seen 'do you want to buy XXX for £xxx' and she'll have thought yeah, and HE will have though it was ingame currency, when it wasnt.

This is not something that can just 'happen'. The girl WILL have had to click an option saying she wanted to buy. Unfortauntly she is seven years old and her dad is stupid.
 
Moral of the story: Read the Ts and Cs.

At some point they logged into Facebook, the game, and Paypal. They should have known what they were doing.
 
After browsing the news I frequently visit here, only to see threads on what is already all over the interwebs..

/exits thread
 
Adam said:
The father is 100% at fault, should have logged out of paypal. Suck it up, learn a lesson and get in with life. Don't get the sun involved next time.
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This. Not logging out of Paypal was very irresponsible.
 
I find it more ridiculous that you can spend £250 in a facebook game. Would anyone actually do that, with the acception of cases like this when you can actually buy good games off things like steam?
 
On the developer forum for an application i use on my iphone there's so many angry parents whos kids buy 'app money' with 'real money' here's some posts:

I downloaded this app fro my son and have now received the following charges - all unauthorised and therefore illegal


Reciept Date Order Number Order Total

12/11/2010 MGLNGLHHY3 £29.15

14/11/2010 MGLNGML965 £20.29

12/11/2010 MGLNGML65Z £59.99

12/11/2010 MGLNGML4WL £29.99

14/11/2010 MGLNGQD4Z4 £68.35

22/11/2010 MGLNH0VLOJ £61.18

22/11/2010 MGLNH0VLWG £29.99

22/11/2010 MGLNH0VMNG £24.57

22/11/2010 MGLNH0VQ07 £29.33

23/11/2010 MGLNH23BFF £25.16

23/11/2010 MGLNH23D0D £29.99

23/11/2010 MGLNH23D6Y £22.70

24/11/2010 MGLNH24FHJ £20.94

£451.63
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£330 in charges from Tap Zoo

I downloaded the FREE Tap Zoo app for my 4 year old daughter (which I do frequently and I normally get the free ones cause her interest usually fades and she wants something different). S Well, this morning I realized I have been charged over £330 through the Tap Zoo game....

I would like to see about a refund This should have required a password. The free app was installed on our ipad. All purchases are ok’d by me and she does not have my password.

It does NOT ask you for a password. I know because I just tried. It does not seem like this is an uncommon practice nor is this legal.

I have emailed the support team here - but would like to hear if there is more people who have been through the same thing.
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Was something about this on Watchdog a few weeks back, about the danger of "micro-transactions" inside a game. The game itself is free, but you spend real money to buy gameworld money.

Bloke on there got a refund too.
 
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