Son spent our money on Fifa 13 without us knowing

Takeaway_Addict

Equaliser123 wrote: »

What job do you propose he does? Head on up the chimneys?

Ah ok, misunderstanding. I was talking about his parents making him do chores on top of whatever is normal and to effectively charge him £5 an hour for whatever chores he was doing....14 hours of chores will teach him!

ILW

What chores?






Mines a pint thanks.

paddedjohn

I think the kid is getting a bit of stick here, the only person at fault is the idiot who let an 11 year old kid have access to a paypal account, whenever ive bought points for my son ive done so at the shop. I might sound harsh on you OP but at the end of the day its you fault.

knightstyle

At the end of the day he is only 11, made a mistake and is now paying for it. He still needs to know he is loved by his family and hopefully he will never do anything like this again.

OlliesDad

paddedjohn wrote: »

I think the kid is getting a bit of stick here, the only person at fault is the idiot who let an 11 year old kid have access to a paypal account, whenever ive bought points for my son ive done so at the shop. I might sound harsh on you OP but at the end of the day its you fault.

I'm not sure that leaving the Paypal account accessible in this way makes the OP an idiot. It is a logical presumption to make that the password will need to be used each time a transaction is made.

Also, at what age do you feel it is right to start punishing a child for doing something wrong. It is very clear on Fifa the cost of the credits and therefore he knew that him parents would be paying.

DCFC79

OP in future buy the points from a store eg a supermarket or from a website like amazon rather than having your paypal account linked to your sons account on his PC/Xbox.

animalhouse

skipsmum wrote: »

When I bought xbox live points for DS through my paypal I found in the very small print a clause that said your paypal would remain linked to the xbox account unless you went into your paypal account on the pc and cancelled "further payments to microsoft".
To be fair to your son, microsoft have made it incredibly easy for him to spend money, and incredibly hard for you to stop it.

My bad then, I really didn't know this and will cancel the link from paypal to the xbox now.

I've just got back from work and have had a grown up chat with DS. He admitted that he knew he was spending real money but that he didn't realise he had spent so much. He has written DH and I a letter saying how sorry he is and suggesting punishments ....and promising that he won't do anything like it again.

DH and I discussed it and have told DS that he has to pay back £100, which is the £80 plus £20 cost of the Wonga loan. He's going to do this by selling his Nintendo DS3 (as he doesn't use it) and using his pocket money and birthday money.

As punishment for letting us down by stealing, his birthday party has been cancelled, although he can have two friends to sleep over. In addition his XBox has been taken away from him for two weeks.

Thanks for all your input, especially telling me what had happened so quickly and how to stop it happening again via paypal.

(He's a usually a pretty good kid, honestly )

animalhouse

paddedjohn wrote: »

I think the kid is getting a bit of stick here, the only person at fault is the idiot who let an 11 year old kid have access to a paypal account, whenever ive bought points for my son ive done so at the shop. I might sound harsh on you OP but at the end of the day its you fault.

I really didn't know that the Xbox was linked to our paypal account....if I buy points I do usually buy them from Game, but I had bought the yearly membership via paypal ages ago.

I'm not daft and DS certainly doesn't usually have access to our paypal account.

Never mind, it's all sorted now and I've learned a valuable lesson.

(Actually, John, DS, is that you? You're supposed to be doing your homework....)

vyle

skipsmum wrote: »

When I bought xbox live points for DS through my paypal I found in the very small print a clause that said your paypal would remain linked to the xbox account unless you went into your paypal account on the pc and cancelled "further payments to microsoft".
To be fair to your son, microsoft have made it incredibly easy for him to spend money, and incredibly hard for you to stop it.

And that is why you have two accounts on the xbox: yours as a parent account with payment authorisation, and your child as a "child account" which has parental blocks applied so that they cannot buy things, access games above their age range, etc etc. These consoles have protection in place, you just have to use it.

Flyboy152

Equaliser123 wrote: »

He is 11!!!

Flyboy11 comes to work with me and earns his pocket money, albeit, not at five pounds an hour.