/cue psycho music...
QuoteA three-year-old boy has used his mothers computer to buy a Ã,£9,000 car on an internet auction site.
Jack Neals parents only discovered their sons successful bid when they received a message from eBay about the Barbie pink Nissan Figaro.
Rachael Neal, 36, said her son was quite good at using the computer.
Mrs Neal, of Sleaford, Lincolnshire, said she had left her eBay password in her computer and her son had used the "buy it now" button.
She said: "Jacks a whizz on the PC and just pressed all the right buttons.
"I was just horrified.
"We now have the parental locks on - and we make sure we sign out of eBay!"
She said her husband John, 37, had called the seller of the car and explained the mistake.
"Luckily he saw the funny side and said he would re-advertise," Mrs Neal added.
The seller of the soft-top second-hand car, Paul Jones, co-director of Worcester Road Motors in Stourport-on-Severn, near Kidderminster, Worcestershire, said he had been "amused" by the bid.
It is the first time the car dealership has sold a car on the site, Mr Jones said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/5379930.stm
Saw this on the local news last night, immediately thought it was a BS excuse for someone buying a car they didnt want ;)
I have quite a few friends with kids that age and tbh; me smells the brown stuff. Since when can a three year old dig out a password etc, logon to ebay and then place a bid?
Absolute crap if you ask me.
Quote from: mrtI have quite a few friends with kids that age and tbh; me smells the brown stuff. Since when can a three year old dig out a password etc, logon to ebay and then place a bid?
Absolute crap if you ask me.
Quite easily, especially if the username/password are stored locally to save you re-entering it every time you visit the site.
considering they said they had left it logged in.....theres just that nice big shiney button saying "buy it now" to press.
It might be rubbish, but it might just as easily be true
Is there not more of a process than just clicking the buy it now? then?
Just sounds ridiculous to me.
if its logged in and ready to go, its two clicks buy it now and confirm.
of course this would require the family to already have been looking at said automotive contraption or at least the page with it on. If it was featured on the ebay frontpage perhaps? certainly more than a little fishy, but not beyond the realm of possibility, especially if kiddie has seen mummy and daddy buy things on E-bay before.
TBH dumbasses for leaving their ebay logged in with a computer litterate 3 year old around. Everybody knows 3 year olds are trouble!