Seller reckons their kid bid on my auction.What to do?

sarahmoon_2

frivolous_fay wrote: »

Very much depends on the age of the child!

I've heard of people saying their cat bid... :rolleyes:

My child was 10 now 11, but very computer savvy.

sarahmoon_2

Hintza wrote: »

So hopefully you bought it and deducted double the amount from her pocket money and grounded her for a month (just for fun of course).

If your child does something wrong it is your responsibilty to take the necessary action to ensure they learn from that mistake.

Yes and I took responsibility for it, I had queried the sale with the seller, realised what happened and the seller said to leave it, to be honest I think the seller was looking for more than what was bid.

frivolous_fay

sarahmoon wrote: »

My child was 10 now 11, but very computer savvy.

It's when people start telling you their 2 year old did it you start to get cynical :rolleyes:

soolin

frivolous_fay wrote: »

It's when people start telling you their 2 year old did it you start to get cynical :rolleyes:

I'm waaaayy past cynical, in fact just call me Mrs Grumpy.

The one that got me was the BBC news story about a kid who bought a sports car...the BBC carried it as though it was really news and they interviewed everyone and made a big deal out of it. Yet looking at it it was so obvious that it was advertising, the car had not actually been sold and didn't sell until it was all over the news.

I wrote to the BBC and to the advertising standards agency and in fact every one I could think of to complain that the BBC were hoodwinked by a con story. I did get responses, even one from the BBC who said that sometimes journalists were not always able to fully check out a story before it gets aired, and then once it is aired other regional programmes pick up on it. They said they took their news reports very seriously and regretted any inference I may have taken from what they believed at the time was a genuine story. They never actually admitted they were wrong, but they didn't tell me I was wrong either.