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Dazhel

Gold Coast, Queensland

2837 posts

A desperate mother has condemned Microsoft after her 11-year-old son racked up a £1,000 debt on her debit card - through his Xbox. Brendan Jordan racked up a bill of £1,082.52 on his Xbox without realising all the purchases were being charged to his mum Dawn Matthews' card.

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Nice one, kid manages to both rack up a massive bill and weasels out of punishment by sucking up to mum. It's all Microsoft's fault as well. Anyone else used the xbox live parental controls? They can't be that hard, surely?

11:54pm 08/02/11 Permalink

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Pinky

Melbourne, Victoria

8755 posts

Cool me superficial but just judging by the photo and the decor as well as her job description "Sales Executive", please, cough up and call it a day. Then spank the little shit silly knowing that kids know the difference between right and wrong by the age of 7.

12:06am 09/02/11 Permalink

Door

Rockhampton, Queensland

596 posts

Sales Executive just means salesperson, like BDM and Sales Consultant.

12:09am 09/02/11 Permalink

Tanaka Khan

Brisbane, Queensland

4930 posts

Over a 6 month period? Surely she gets monthly statements from the credit card?

12:49am 09/02/11 Permalink

FaceMan

Brisbane, Queensland

5205 posts

Customers should be able to set spend limits on accounts.
These problems would disappear overnight.
Up to $10 a month
Up to $100 a month
Up to $1000 a month

01:09am 09/02/11 Permalink

Whoop

Brisbane, Queensland

17873 posts

Over a 6 month period? Surely she gets monthly statements from the credit card?

Yeah I gotta go with this. Why would she not notice the charges to her CC?

How is any of it MS's fault? She put her details in, had it save them, then gave her kid unlimited access to the console. There's no difference than giving her kid the CC and letting him loose in a game store ffs.

Bring in parenting licenses already. >: /

01:17am 09/02/11 Permalink

deeper

Brisbane, Queensland

3624 posts

yep, lols overall really - I cbf reading the link but why was her card attached to it in the first place? Surely any intelligent person would remove any links to said card any initial need for it?

Shieeeet, even with WoW I pay for a month and cancel it straight after just in case.

WWW

02:51am 09/02/11 Permalink

Fixah

Brisbane, Queensland

4922 posts

I reckon the kid knew what he was doing and cried wolf when his mum found out about it.

On the flip side he's got a $1000 avatar that's probably smarter than his mum.

05:30am 09/02/11 Permalink

Mordecai

Victoria

542 posts

Reminded me of that Aspergers kid who got banned for modding his achievements. He cried wolf over MS calling him a cheater, his mum jumped in a called MS the bad guys then MS pointed out he had been cheating by downloading save files and modding his account.

07:00am 09/02/11 Permalink

justrev

Melbourne, Victoria

264 posts

She calls singing a second job. hah!
she's too busy having fun at the clubs she sings at to look after her kid and check her credit card bill
having kids is an important role and needs a person to commit to it properly. it does go away after a coupla decades.

07:38am 09/02/11 Permalink

Tollaz0r!

Brisbane, Queensland

10919 posts

yep, lols overall really - I cbf reading the link but why was her card attached to it in the first place? Surely any intelligent person would remove any links to said card any initial need for it?

You can't remove your CC details from the xbox, you have to go through a website, is a bit of a pain.

My daughter was mashing the controls of my xbox once, managed to turn it on and ended up buying some dodgy background. I rang up microsoft after that and got them remove the CC details. Hahah

08:07am 09/02/11 Permalink

iTOM

Brisbane, Queensland

884 posts

love all the government job titles. office manager = admin. office/project support = admin. even where i'm working, there is a "web development officer" and "senior BA" and they both are hard into admin stuff. fuck me dead

08:30am 09/02/11 Permalink

jmr

Brisbane, Queensland

7027 posts

Who gives a fuck ?

It's like a kid calling a phone sex service on a home phone, it happens all the time but you don't need a fucking news article about it

09:46am 09/02/11 Permalink

deeper

Brisbane, Queensland

3625 posts

You can't remove your CC details from the xbox, you have to go through a website

woah hold up toll, that's difficulty rating++

WWW

10:06am 09/02/11 Permalink

fukles

Brisbane, Queensland

5904 posts

A website? Not a fucking website!!!

11:07am 09/02/11 Permalink

Reverend Evil�

Wynnum, Queensland

18166 posts

The only thing I agree with her about is trying to disconnect from xbox live. You have to physically call up fucking microsoft to cancel the subscription. What type of retarded idea is that.

11:10am 09/02/11 Permalink

Tollaz0r!

Brisbane, Queensland

10920 posts

Yer it sucks. You should be able to just delete it from the Xbox, but noo.
Also when I did it the website wouldn't work so I had to call them, twice.

It is heaps easy to sign up, should be just as easy to unsign.

11:15am 09/02/11 Permalink

Fixah

Brisbane, Queensland

4923 posts

Really easy to add points as well.

Buy this item
You don't have enough points
Add 4000 points
Cha Ching $$$$

11:26am 09/02/11 Permalink

MoSFXx

Gold Coast, Queensland

276 posts

I reckon the kid knew what he was doing and cried wolf when his mum found out about it.

On the flip side he's got a $1000 avatar that's probably smarter than his mum.

oh snap!

Don't blame Microsoft blame the shitty DLC

11:33am 09/02/11 Permalink

Mordecai

Victoria

544 posts

love all the government job titles. office manager = admin. office/project support = admin. even where i'm working, there is a "web development officer" and "senior BA" and they both are hard into admin stuff. fuck me dead

At one job I was at I was titled the "Warehouse manager". I worked for a clothing company in the storage warehouse and was the only worker there apart from the "Office administrator" ie secretary. My job entitled taking stuff off shelves, putting them in boxes and sending them. I also had to keep an eye on stock levels. And because of that I was entitled to be called "warehouse manager", I preferred shitkicker as a title.

11:42am 09/02/11 Permalink

trillion

Brisbane, Queensland

1544 posts

shit yeah Games On Demand is some dangerous CC charging channel, so handy though plays from the hdd without needing to hack and crack and pirate the games

05:09pm 09/02/11 Permalink

Enska

Sydney, New South Wales

652 posts

Why not just change the cc details to something random? I know you can do that through the Xbox as I do it all the time.
Every time someone tries to purchase it just denies it. problem solved.

05:22pm 09/02/11 Permalink

Dazhel

Gold Coast, Queensland

2839 posts

I reckon the kid knew what he was doing and cried wolf when his mum found out about it.
On the flip side he's got a $1000 avatar that's probably smarter than his mum.

Heh, I think you're probably right on both counts.

Instead of teaching the kid a valuable lesson on the value of money and leaving a huge boot imprint on the seat of his pants, instead mum calls the waaaambulance and blames microsoft in a whinge to the paper.

05:39pm 09/02/11 Permalink

Whoop

Brisbane, Queensland

17875 posts

You can't remove your CC details from the xbox, you have to go through a website, is a bit of a pain.

My daughter was mashing the controls of my xbox once, managed to turn it on and ended up buying some dodgy background. I rang up microsoft after that and got them remove the CC details. Hahah

Yeah, it's like a lot of things. I love how it's so easy to enter your details for "easy future purchases" and things but just try removing your details, you gotta ring some phone number & jump through a bunch of hoops.

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