Wait a second, just to make sure we're talking about the same thing. On the google/psn etc. server the entire cc info is saved, no doubt about that, it pretty much has to.No, it's totally correct. Google Play, Playstation Network, X-box Live, Humble Bundle, Steam, et. al that SAVE your credit card information... let me repeat that SAVE ALL YOUR CREDIT CARD INFORMATION. ALL OF IT. Your full number. XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX and the 3 digit pin YYY. Along with the name/information for the card you entered.
This is bad for security at the sake of "not having to enter your credit card information for each purchase" convenience.
The silver lining is: You can remove this information but it's a hassle unless Google/et. al. are like Wizards of the Coast where they DON'T save your credit card information (the XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX YYY numbers/pin) but save your billing info for Magic: Online purchases. Problem is, a lot of companies don't go this route.
I love how everyone in this thread just knows that the kid is lying. Yeah, sure, no refund necessary, it's definitely the little shit's fault. /s
Google shouldn't refund.
Is like giving your child $3K USD and after knowing he/she spent everything on whatever physical store, go those stores and ask for refund.
Is the same thing, just with credit cards and apps.
Bad parenting is bad parenting.
TBH I would say that should probably reach out to the family, if only for that shitty condescending "think happy thoughts" line.
O_O
Must... Resist urge to make meme out of pic of kid in article.
http://i.imgur.com/12ogu3T.png
Criminal fucking mastermind.
Who doesn't check their account over 2 months?
The credit didn't show up on his account after payment? I think it's more likely that the kid just wanted to buy more credits
Read the OP?
No-confirmation purchases should be straight up illegal.
There is no incentive in games like these to make repeated, small purchases. Unless the 11 year old developed an intricate con that involved him buying the smallest possible purchases over and over again, then he would have just bought a bigger IAP to get more credits at once.
Typically games like this have offers similar to this:
Spend 5 dollars get 50 credits (10 credits per dollar), which are followed by:
Spend 100 dollars get 5000 credits + super bonus, and there are giant banners that say things like "Save 75% that attract your attention.
if the intent is to get a lot of credits, doing it 3 dollars at a time is the worst way of doing it.
Sucks but I'm having a hard time buying that he didn't get his stuff from weeks of trying. Errors happen understandably but still...
why didn't she put a password on every Google Play purchase
Wow gaf is full of lames. She shouldn't have given him her details, but if he really wasn't getting the credits then it's not entirely his fault. They should get a refund if this is really what happened
I'm sorry, but do you have kids? If you did, you would realize just how often they will lie to you, straight to your face to try to avoid punishment. Children come with a built-in lying function. Kids lie from the very moment they start talking. I have seen my kids do something with my own eyes, then turn around and tell me 5 minutes later that they didn't when they are about to get in trouble for doing it.
Kids will ALWAYS try to get away with everything they can, even if they flat out know they aren't supposed/allowed to. Just like adults, they think that, of no one is around to see them, they will get away with it Scott-free.
Like thousands of other parents, Penny Wrinch handed over her debit card details to allow her “highly trustworthy and technically savvy” son Nick to buy games
They should refund the kid. These kind of computer errors happen often. Like that time last year when I went on a pilgrimage to Lourdes with my church group, and my wife found out that my credit card was erroneusly charged with some bogus receipts from Amsterdam.
They're both at faultProtect the corporation.
You actually believe this shit?Wow gaf is full of lames. She shouldn't have given him her details, but if he really wasn't getting the credits then it's not entirely his fault. They should get a refund if this is really what happened
He was repeatedly clicking away at these two games for two months despite him never getting the credits? You believe that?In fact Nick had simply been trying and seemingly failing to buy credits to play football management game Top Eleven 2015 and strategy game Clash of Clans among others. Rather than the expected small number of payments of between £1.49 and £7.99 going out of Pennys account, it would appear that after making a purchase the credits never reached Nick, causing him to click and click in vain to make them appear.
On 2 March alone, 21 payments of £3.99 and a further nine of £1.49 disappeared from Pennys account. The next day Nick tried again to buy the credits and the same thing happened with 18 payments being made to Google. A week later 27 payments of between £2.99 and £6.99 were all debited.
In total, Penny says £3,000 was paid to Google Play over a two-month period,
Penny Wrinch
Yeah, it's such a shitty state of mind.
It's entirely possible the kid is lying but his version doesn't sound exactly far fetched either.
Quit giving kids your fucking payment info.
Mobile IAP is a shit hole, but giving out your payment, especially to a kid, is an incident waiting to happen. Is there a two step purchase for those IAP? I know some games ask if you're sure you want a purchase.
So many people want vengeance against a parent who made a mistake. I'm not even a parent and feel terrible for them. Do none of you know the feeling of having nothing in your bank account but still needing money for various responsibilities?
Yea she shouldn't have given her card to an 11 year old, but does that justify laughing/"no sympathy"/GOT WHAT THEY DESERVED type responses? And in defense of a corporation no less. What the hell is wrong with some of you?