NEED HELP ASAP!!!!my 2yr old has bid £5K!!!!

wokkies

:rotfl: my 2yr old did the same more or less but only for 1 item on buy itnow, he's real clever with the mouse and managed to click buy now, lesson to be learnt is log out when you leave the room, well thats what i found, lol:rotfl:

mykidsmum_2

honestly thought I had! (unless she knows my log in details and had learnt to read and write on the sly)
glad to hear I'm not the only one its happened to! did the seller understand or did they report you?

Snooze_Control

mykidsmum wrote:

my sweet 2 yr old has bid on 3 coats in hongkong to a max of 5k

:rolleyes:

Smells to me...

mykidsmum_2

why would it smell fishy?

Snooze_Control

mykidsmum wrote:

why would it smell fishy?

I think the last line of pennylane's reply just about sums it up...

SC

SmileBeHappy

Snooze_Control wrote:

:rolleyes:

Smells to me...

Agree- not sure what she has to gain by posting it here though

mykidsmum_2

I'm sorry have I missed something?. I needed help as I have never had to retract a bid before, I left myself logged into ebay (its my homepage), I am assuming (as we were the only 2 in the house) that my toddler was playing with the mouse and clicking and pressing the keys (as she can on cbeebies)and bid on items ,when I checked my emails it said I had bid on 3 items from the same seller different max amounts to the total of 5k. thanks to some people on here I managed to retract bids and contact the seller, am now waiting for a response. Why would that sound fishy?. I'm not trying to 'gain' anything!, just need pointing in the right direction! sorry I asked

caesarz

mykidsmum wrote:

why would it smell fishy?

because your 2 yr old can actually go through the listings, find the bidding box in the listing page, understand that she have to key in numerical digits in the bidding box and even click through a few boxes to get the bid through.

frivolous_fay

Here's the reason people are suspicious...

To make a bid (multiply this by three in your case)

Your little one would have had to:

Find an item
Click to bid
Enter an amount
Click to the next screen
Click 'Confirm bid'
Find the next item... rinse, repeat.

It's a pretty involved process and many would say it was beyond a two-year-old's intelligence.

Quackers

mykidsmum wrote:

Why would that sound fishy?. I'm not trying to 'gain' anything!, just need pointing in the right direction! sorry I asked

Dont apologise. You have no need to.

Some people are just naturally suspicious of others.

I'm glad you've managed to retract the bids ok.

I appreciate others have pointed out the process of bidding but there have been many threads on here where this has happened so I'm presuming it can, and does happen by accident and random clicking from little fingers.