Naughty Boy

lissarv68 wrote:
This story is 4 months old and I remember when it first happened that it was discussed here. The universal opinion seemed to be that it was the result of lazy parenting and that the money should not have been refunded. Some even said that it was probably the parents who did it and are just using the kid as a way to get out of it.


They went 2 months without balancing their checking account and seeing the purchases. They disabled purchase notifications in the iTunes Store (the default is that you are sent a receipt every time you buy something). They turned off the password in their iTunes Store (the default is that it asks for a password when making an in-app purchase).

The parents are at fault because this is not a matter of ignorance to the way these things work, this is somebody going in and manually changing defaults.

Yes, I am aware that you make a purchase and it stays for a few minutes but even then the parents authorized a payment and for this amount to have racked up? They turned off the password protection.