Mom & dad need to block such sites, maybe even implement some type of password protection program to keep the child from going to certain sites. They should also get in the habit of logging out of sites when they're through to prevent a repeat of this.

Yet there are adults who don't know where the any key is....

It wasn't a truck, it was one of these. I would have loved to have one when I was a kid ;)

submitter: Not News: Toddler want toy truck.

me want big truck. me stupid

If this was in the US. The seller would sue the buyer and then the buyer would sue the auction site. With both party's winning.

WNRTFA:

couple of questions... do they even have hooters in NZ?

Bathia_Mapes: Mom & dad need to block such sites, maybe even implement some type of password protection program to keep the child from going to certain sites. They should also get in the habit of logging out of sites when they're through to prevent a repeat of this.

This is probably the most stick-filled-ass response to an article I've ever seen on fark.

Perhaps it's a lesson for many parents or childminders to keep a close eye on little ones around computers.

Perhaps it would be a better lesson to ensure that Internet Exploder didn't auto-log you into a website like that upon start up.

They call the boy Pipi. That is all.

This sounds a little fishy.
I wonder what industry the parents are in..

Birthday Girl: They call the boy Pipi. That is all.

You are illiterate. That is all.

Birthday Girl: They call the boy Pipi. That is all.

RTFA. Pipi is a little girl, not a boy.

I always keep my computer password protected, and i make very extensive use of the locking feature in my OS.

Winkey - L for the win.

Oh, I so wish I was that kid...

Bathia_Mapes: Mom & dad need to block such sites, maybe even implement some type of password protection program to keep the child from going to certain sites. They should also get in the habit of logging out of sites when they're through to prevent a repeat of this.

Nah, we all have separate logins (the kid's one without a password) and never log into anything under the kid's account. He's three, and likes to get on the Disney, Pooh etc. web sites himself.

DigitalCoffee: Perhaps it's a lesson for many parents or childminders to keep a close eye on little ones around computers.

Perhaps it would be a better lesson to ensure that Internet Exploder didn't auto-log you into a website like that upon start up.


How about mommy doesn't leave the computer on and already logged into the auction site?


/mommy should be biatch slapped

All's well that ends well, looks like everybody got a laugh, even if the seller was a little grumpy.

/why are uninvolved farkers acting so outraged?

Accidentally, my ass!

Dad bought it, blamed the kid, case closed!

/If it were shoes, mom would do the same damn thing.

I like being up late (USA Eastern Standard, or GMT-5) just for the fact that Aussies and Kiwis are so much fun to be awake with.

Wait, what was TFA about?

I heard the kid also spent another $20 on a set of Drop Stops. Poor kid couldn't read that they're currently offer a 15% off Father's Day discount!

Megain: submitter: Not News: Toddler want toy truck.

me want big truck. me stupid

Oh, and sorry, but this needs to be gotten out of the way....

Your Dog Wants Steak.

Juniper Jupiter: Accidentally, my ass!

Dad bought it, blamed the kid, case closed!

/If it were shoes, mom would do the same damn thing.

I bet poor Pipi also got blamed for that suicidegirls membership.

Oztemprom: I like being up late (USA Eastern Standard, or GMT-5) just for the fact that Aussies and Kiwis are so much fun to be awake with.

I live in American Samoa, and I would be all for having an admin to greenlight links for what's the middle of the day for them so I can finally not more or less miss the active part of 99: of threads.

In the USA, a child can't enter into a binding legal contract

Harry_Seldon: In the USA, a child can't enter into a binding legal contract

That's probably true almost anywhere, but the child went to a site her mother had been previously logged into. There is no way the seller would know a child had made the purchase until the parents informed them.

Harry_Seldon: In the USA, a child can't enter into a binding legal contract

but she told me she was 18, I swear!

Make sure to carry a few bags of flour before you leave for your sex vacation guys

Bob's your Uncle. I bet the seller bloke wasnt a whole box of budgies with that excuse - I bet he packed a wobbly. And I bet someone had their guts for garters for leaving the auction site logged in after having a squiz. The whole thing was choc-a-block puckeroo - someone was two sammies short of a picnic - stupid as a two bob watch. At least the seller wasnt a dag, though I bet he was dead chuffed. I get the colly wobbles just thinking what I would do if a $20,000 bill showed up. I'd probably have carked it right there.

I used to sell a few things on ebay as a hobby (it put me in touch with a lot of like people in the obscure hobby). Every so often, I'd get some note that I need to immediately cancel some transaction because "I am a single parent and my autistic child got loose on the PC and purchased this." It was always the same - such purchasers were ALWAYS from America (even though regularly maybe 5% at most of my customers were from there) and every one had no sense of responsibility whatsoever for what their "child" supposedly did. I doubt there were any "autistics" much less children involved - my items were listed in UK Pounds and the purchasers were idiots who didn't realize this until they went to Pay with paypal where the monetary conversion is made slightly more clear. None of the people offered to pay my eBay fees, even when it was explained to them that these were significant, and all instead gave me some crap about don't I realize how difficult it is to raise ADHD/autistic children. While I realize that the entitlement society isn't a uniquely American phenomenon, it really is quite shocking when you meet such people, even virtually, after living in a more or less reasonable place otherwise (even if it is theoretically a "nanny state.")

You don't let small children use the internet without supervision. This isn't a hard concept to grasp.

farkwell:
Uh, dare I ask what that suspiciously shaped-object besides Yoda is?

/Why no, no I'm not a Star Wars fan.
/..Why yes, yes I am a pervert.

unimpressed.

hot

Ah, this 3 year old kid gets around. This must be the same little kid sister that's always logging on to peoples WoW accounts and raiding the guild bank when they're at work; or using wall hacks on TF2 and getting the account banned, the littly tyke.

You may call me a little sceptical.

This actually happened to me just a few weeks ago. I was looking at some things with my daughter and one of them was a new one with a buy it now of 90.00, but I told her that we should just wait and watch the others because we could probably get it cheaper, well our grandson yelled at us to come look at him doing something on the trampoline, and the laptop was left on the kitchen table. Later on we come back inside and my husband was on it and said hey you won that item, I said what item? Needless to say our 4 yr old granddaughter got on the laptop and told us she was clicking on it and clicked the button at the bottom. But since we hadn't been on paypal for awhile thanks to that transaction we found out that someone was screwing with our paypal account.

From the article:
Fairfax Media, the publisher of this website, also owns TradeMe.

I'm shocked, SHOCKED, to read that.

How's THIS for a fancy nickname: Uh, dare I ask what that suspiciously shaped-object besides Yoda is?

That, my friend, is a Toy Yoda which the lady is unhappy about because she thought she was getting a Toyota.

My password is ********************, so I'm getting a kick....

/really!
//okay, not really

This happened ONCE to me when my niece was a few years younger, probably around 5 or 6. Left the room to run to the ladies, come back to a "CONGRATULATIONS" screen on ebay for a dress I had been looking at, but wasn't going to purchase (didn't feel like spending $90 on a dress). Needless to say, I wasn't a happy bunny with her.

She got banned from going anywhere near the computer unless I was right next to her. She's 9 now and STILL asks for permission to even look sideways at my computer.

I contacted the seller and got it all straightened out. Also offered to pay the relisting fee, but I was told not to worry about it.

Shame really, I had planned to make the kid work it off and really punish her. (I know she was only like 6, so when I say work it off I mean like helping me tidy the house, etc.)

TBH though, these parents have NO excuse! I walked out of the room for maybe 5 minutes, not went to bed and left the computer running. And who doesn't notice their kid is up and roaming around? I can tell when my CAT is awake before I am!

Clever little girl, considering she's still almost a baby.

mtylerjr: Bob's your Uncle. I bet the seller bloke wasnt a whole box of budgies with that excuse - I bet he packed a wobbly. And I bet someone had their guts for garters for leaving the auction site logged in after having a squiz. The whole thing was choc-a-block puckeroo - someone was two sammies short of a picnic - stupid as a two bob watch. At least the seller wasnt a dag, though I bet he was dead chuffed. I get the colly wobbles just thinking what I would do if a $20,000 bill showed up. I'd probably have carked it right there.

What the fark did you just say?

/Aussie

So old people are afraid of technology, and little kids aren't afraid enough.

That's what 2girls1cup was made for.

Bomb Head Mohammed: I used to sell a few things on ebay as a hobby (it put me in touch with a lot of like people in the obscure hobby). Every so often, I'd get some note that I need to immediately cancel some transaction because "I am a single parent and my autistic child got loose on the PC and purchased this." It was always the same - such purchasers were ALWAYS from America (even though regularly maybe 5% at most of my customers were from there) and every one had no sense of responsibility whatsoever for what their "child" supposedly did. I doubt there were any "autistics" much less children involved - my items were listed in UK Pounds and the purchasers were idiots who didn't realize this until they went to Pay with paypal where the monetary conversion is made slightly more clear. None of the people offered to pay my eBay fees, even when it was explained to them that these were significant, and all instead gave me some crap about don't I realize how difficult it is to raise ADHD/autistic children. While I realize that the entitlement society isn't a uniquely American phenomenon, it really is quite shocking when you meet such people, even virtually, after living in a more or less reasonable place otherwise (even if it is theoretically a "nanny state.")

I call BS on that one as well. I have a ADHD/AUtistic child and he is smart as whip so I KNOW to keep passwords safe and secure. Parents were assshats!

Oh and even a girl named Pipi? Blech

Imagine what they would have gotten if she would have been into Barbie !!! Boom Chica Wow Wow...

Bathia_Mapes: Birthday Girl: They call the boy Pipi. That is all.

RTFA. Pipi is a little girl, not a boy.

Pippi Longstocking doesn't have parents.

Smart Child + Dumb Parents = FAIL.



To the nay sayers.... I used to be able to load up the Alice in Wonderland game on my Daddy's Commadore 64 when I was 4, and play the game, and that was a logic based RPG, and you had to type in some shiat like "A:\\Alice*"load*"Dave'sprofile** or something gay like that I don't remember exactly now 20 years later.

But, trust me, as a kid who grew up around computers, kids who pay attention to what their parents do on the computer learn a lot.

"My name is Pipi. I'm three years old and I'm a PC"

detfrost1: To the nay sayers.... I used to be able to load up the Alice in Wonderland game on my Daddy's Commadore 64 when I was 4, and play the game, and that was a logic based RPG, and you had to type in some shiat like "A:\\Alice*"load*"Dave'sprofile** or something gay like that I don't remember exactly now 20 years later.

No "A" for C-64. Indeed the only prompt was a blinking cursor (assuming you are not running a program with its own prompt).

Maybe load "filename",8:run

Bathia_Mapes: Harry_Seldon: In the USA, a child can't enter into a binding legal contract

That's probably true almost anywhere, but the child went to a site her mother had been previously logged into. There is no way the seller would know a child had made the purchase until the parents informed them.

Someday some site is going to be an a$$ about this. If you log in, you have pretty much approved it and you really could never prove that your kid and not yourself did it. Heck a real *&^% might say "Give me two thousand and I will let you off the hook" and then does the auction again.

And then what if they always believe the user? Then anyone with a three-year old could change their mind and claim that it was the kid that did it.

Lab Monkey: "My name is Pipi. I'm three years old and I'm a PC"

WIN.

/That's like a commercial or something...

Lab Monkey: "My name is Pipi. I'm three years old and I'm a PC"

Heh, heh, heh!