Steam issue HELP

jakspyder

jakspyder

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Ok so my little brother (the tit) asked my mother if he could borrow her card to buy a £4 game. She said ok. 10 mins later he comes downstairs saying he accidentally bought it twice, but no issue he will just give her some money. All is ok

one day later (now) £160+ has gone out. 32x £4 and 4 x £10 (he is lucky he was at school) because naturally mum is FURI:mad:US!

He claims (after a phone call, sitll at school) that he bought a few things on TF2 through the ingame shop. but admits to the 4 games costing £10 each so..


how do we, if we can, get any of this all back? its all those little £4 payments she wants back as that is the bulk. What can we do? We dont have a lot of money, she is a single mum of 6 kids. Its not like she can just say £160 gone oh well no biggie.

Please advise!
 
Not sure what to do other than contact Steam.

On a side note, your mother has absolutely no right to be furious with him , as its her own stupid damn fault for giving a kid her card.
 
he is 15. she isnt an idiot for trusting her children. She has always trusted me and iv never done this. Even the others have never been so moronic. Most of it seems to have been bought thought the TF2 ingame shop which he obviously just went nuts on.

She has every right to be furious. He stole that money. Now she cant afford anything at all for christmas for him...
 
It's a sad tale and I sympathise. If she can't get the money back then he doesn't get any Xmas presents? Seems like an apt punishment. Seriously though, relate your tale of woe to steam and it might help.
 
Aye, contact steam and just explain everything to them. If your mum doesn't get any money back then she will just have to explain to your brother that he spent his xmas money, simples.
 
1.phone bank
2.ask to reverse card payments

They will probably get all huffy about it saying blah blah shouldn't do this blah blah, but just get them told to do it because they can !
 
jakspyder said:
he is 15. she isnt an idiot for trusting her children. She has always trusted me and iv never done this. Even the others have never been so moronic. Most of it seems to have been bought thought the TF2 ingame shop which he obviously just went nuts on.

She has every right to be furious. He stole that money. Now she cant afford anything at all for christmas for him...
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Well I say she is an idiot for doing it.

There is no way that I would give a teenager my credit card, then let them trundle off to the internet , unsupervised to use the credit card. Its simply a daft thing to do imo. For all she knows the kid might write down the details of the card and hey presto, instant ability to get anything on the internet.

For me, its not so much a question of trust but simply understanding that you shouldnt be surprised that if you give a kid your card there is a very good chance they will use it to buy things that you didnt say they could.

Could she not have done the purchase for , or at least with, him for example. Thats not what I call trust, its what I call parenting.
 
You will get your brother's Steam account banned. Not that he doesn't deserve it though ;)

He's a minor thus he cannot use a credit card with or without your mum's permission afaik.

Also, single mum, six kids, 15yo getting a credit card to use :rolleyes:
 
Calling a dude's mum an idiot and commenting upon their parenting abilities isn't particularly helpful! I agree that the little-un should have been supervised but Jak's explained it tbh.
 
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