My 8 year old just bought a £150 app on our ipad!

AlecEiffel

Ronneh wrote: »

To be fair - it should state it will save card details in the future.

This in the Ts and Cs may cover that -
You agree that Apple may store and use the iTunes Registration Data you provide for use in maintaining and billing fees to your Account.

kwikbreaks

lostinrates wrote: »

I have been an iPad user for a couple of years and not once yet purchased an app, only free ones. The choice of free apps is amazing. Sure, they want you to upgrade from 'lite' versions, and one day maybe I will, but so far I'm quite content with my free apps.

Now is that money saving or not?
I'm not at all sure as most of the free Apple platform apps I've seen are fairly limited and make justifying the premium price paid for an iPad pretty hard to justify. My wife has an iPad that is mostly used by my grandchildren and there is a mixture of free and paid apps on it. I have a couple of Android devices and the same goes for them except I probably have less paid apps on those than there are on the iPad as many pretty good apps are supported entirely by advertising. Upgrades of those to ad free tends to be cheaper than for the iPad.

PHARR

People are so fast to troll here. Im sure if it was them it would be a different story.

I havey views like anybody but im not going to troll, however i wish you luck with getting a refund as such. Whatever the outcome, a valuble lesson is learnt.

albionrovers

debsign wrote: »

hope that you got your money back, after this I would not let him used the ipad for anything! even if he begs, cries and had a tantrum about it.
he will get over it

What a load of carp.

GunJack

there is a possible way round it, but I doubt apple (or google play for that matter) would ever go for it.....

Have 2 separate App Stores/iTunes/whatever you want to call them, one for premium (paid-for) apps and music, the other for totally free stuff with in-app purchases also prohibited.

That way, you shouldn't even need an apple ID/google account to access the totally free stuff, but you would for the paid-for stuff....

problem solved


maybe I'm the only person on the planet who objects to having to have "accounts" just to use a device... you certainly don't to use a pc

lostinrates

kwikbreaks wrote: »

Now is that money saving or not?
I'm not at all sure as most of the free Apple platform apps I've seen are fairly limited and make justifying the premium price paid for an iPad pretty hard to justify. My wife has an iPad that is mostly used by my grandchildren and there is a mixture of free and paid apps on it. I have a couple of Android devices and the same goes for them except I probably have less paid apps on those than there are on the iPad as many pretty good apps are supported entirely by advertising. Upgrades of those to ad free tends to be cheaper than for the iPad.

. Perhaps it depends on the person and the use?

The iPad for me is instead of a complicated mobile (I do have a basic mobile) and a personal computer) and a kindle. Its an easier way for me to stay in touch with my clients when I'm not where they want me to be (at home where they can corner me:rotfl:). Or my husband , who works away for home mon to fri so face time can be fun, and its lighter than a lap top which is help ful for me as I have a health condition and sometimes trying to get about with the laptop was proving impossible. When I have long days in hospital being able to keep up with emails,surf here, and read is nice. That I can use the free apps is fun, but wouldn't have changed the purchase for me.


That said. A few of the apps I use free are actually not useless. I am under quite a lot of medical supervision, and the myfitness pal app is a really easy way to record food and activity for the dieticianand gastroenterologist and various consultants respectively. I'm pretty sure I have a note somewhere with a list of others to look at for probable help. (I have memory problems so notepad is also really useful when I r,ember to check the notes!) as is the ability to snap things as an aide memoire.

Why iPad over another tablet? Well, firstly dh's it reluctantly recommended it was the best purchase for us. The FaceTime works with a mainly apple family well. And it interacts with the work set up we are planning for the future well.

DH's office recently provided him with an iPad air, and he was keen to get me one of those as its So much lighter, but I'm not fussed. I find the iPad fine to carry about, its much easier than a lap top and I'm affectionate about mine, . I'm not a fan of upgrading for upgrading sake. One day this will 'die' and then we'll have to replace with what's best at the time.



My point was, that apple users do not HAVE to be hand in pocket all the time. It depends on how you use it and why. As a very basic user, I don't need to at all. As a technophobe its a much easier way for me to interact with technology. :D

warehouse

OK, let's clear this up for those of you who have skimmed through the thread.

I have my money back in full from Apple.

debsign wrote: »

hope that you got your money back, after this I would not let him used the ipad for anything! even if he begs, cries and had a tantrum about it.
he will get over it

Yep, money back but if you read a page or so back you'll see that I certainly don't blame my son one iota, the system is setup to catch you and it did.

AlecEiffel wrote: »

This in the Ts and Cs may cover that -
You agree that Apple may store and use the iTunes Registration Data you provide for use in maintaining and billing fees to your Account.

Hands up anyone who reads full t's & c's every time they install an apple upgrade? For IOS7 it was 94 pages wasn't it? What the t's & c's don't say is that once logged in to itunes your login will stay valid for 15 minutes, it also doesn't say that £150 apps will pop up as featured as you browse the free ones, and that by clicking on one of the paid apps to see what it's about it will immediately begin to install without asking again for password or any other form of card security, and then charge you even if you cancel the download immediately.

PHARR wrote: »

People are so fast to troll here. Im sure if it was them it would be a different story.

I havey views like anybody but im not going to troll, however i wish you luck with getting a refund as such. Whatever the outcome, a valuble lesson is learnt.

Thank You PHARR, you are a rare breed on MSE these days. A huge lesson learnt.


To conclude: I purchased a £15 pre paid card which is to last until Easter. I installed it and the credit shows immediately. My son did a test purchase, (a plugin for minecraft), for 69p and it worked beautifully.

My advice would be to NEVER register a card with Apple Itunes or App store.

Number29

warehouse wrote: »

OK, let's clear this up for those of you who have skimmed through the thread.

I have my money back in full from Apple.




Yep, money back but if you read a page or so back you'll see that I certainly don't blame my son one iota, the system is setup to catch you and it did.



Hands up anyone who reads full t's & c's every time they install an apple upgrade? For IOS7 it was 94 pages wasn't it? What the t's & c's don't say is that once logged in to itunes your login will stay valid for 15 minutes, it also doesn't say that £150 apps will pop up as featured as you browse the free ones, and that by clicking on one of the paid apps to see what it's about it will immediately begin to install without asking again for password or any other form of card security, and then charge you even if you cancel the download immediately.



Thank You PHARR, you are a rare breed on MSE these days. A huge lesson learnt.


To conclude: I purchased a £15 pre paid card which is to last until Easter. I installed it and the credit shows immediately. My son did a test purchase, (a plugin for minecraft), for 69p and it worked beautifully.

My advice would be to NEVER register a card with Apple Itunes or App store.

There's nothing wrong with registering a card with Apple (I've had one on file for years), you just need to take the necessary precautions to secure your device, much like you wouldn't leave you wallet sitting around in a public place etc.

50Twuncle

Try an app - called Applock to prevent your kids from changing any settings or making any purchases in future !!

warehouse

Number29 wrote: »

There's nothing wrong with registering a card with Apple (I've had one on file for years), you just need to take the necessary precautions to secure your device, much like you wouldn't leave you wallet sitting around in a public place etc.

If Apple managed wallets then you wouldn't have to leave it in a public place for it to be raided.