E-Bay needs parental controls.

[mcornelio]

LONDON – Three-year-old Jack Neal loves cars – so much so, that while his mother's back was turned, he bought a Barbie-pink Nissan Figaro for nearly $16,000 on eBay.

"I had just come off the computer and I thought I had logged off, I came out of eBay," his mother, Rachel, told the BBC on Monday.

"Jack jumped on the chair, [went] straight in, found the page and bought the car." Unable to read, the youngster probably used the "buy it now" option to make the purchase.

The first time the Neals, from Sleaford in eastern England, knew of the sale was when they received an e-mail from auto dealer David Jones, who thought he had made his first Internet sale.

Mr. Jones, from Worcestershire in central England, saw the funny side and said he would not hold the Neals to their purchase. The car will be re-listed later.

"I've got a 2 ½-year-old son myself, and I don't think he would be able to do this, although he's bright," he said.

Jack denied culpability. Asked whether he made the purchase, he squirmed and muttered, "No."

At least the dealership was good about it. I would have given that lady negative feedback! http://70.87.72.152/default/images/smilies/evil.gif

[Mixability]

I would have given that lady negative feedback! http://70.87.72.152/default/images/smilies/evil.gif

Which is why you deserve the karma of your ex-gf getting "fed from the back" with her daily gangbang.

[Spurminator]

I don't buy it. I bet she made an impulse buy that she regretted shortly thereafter and is trying to get out of it.

[Mixability]

how would parental controls have helped this situation? she forgot to log off.

[ducks]

I believe a kid could do it
stupid for adult to save password

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

I don't buy it. I bet she made an impulse buy that she regretted shortly thereafter and is trying to get out of it.

Now everything in the world will be blamed on her 3-year-old.

Didn't get your morning paper? The kid did it.

Wife cheated on you. The kid made her.

Shaun Alexander's broken foot. The kid tripped Shaun.

And yes, the kid seperated T.O.'s pills.

[Spurminator]

My kid ordered 60 hours of Pay-Per-View porn last month. I can't be held responsible.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

My kid ordered 60 hours of Pay-Per-View porn last month. I can't be held responsible.

That's good to hear, because I was really going to be worried if that was you that had ordered "Babies Gone Wild."

[Spurminator]

Actually, I did order that one but I thought it said "Babes". I only watched the whole thing because I paid for it, so I didn't want the money to go to waste.

[mcornelio]

sick...

[Spurminator]

sick...


Actually it was surprisingly tame compared to my initial expectations.

[SequSpur]

Actually it was surprisingly tame compared to my initial expectations.

one of those watch the facial expression movies.. huh?

[Notorious H.O.P.]

The kid would have had to click Buy It Now and then confirm it with one or two other mouse clicks. Is she trying to tell us that he clicked around and "found the car", clicked the "Buy It Now" button and then clicked through the confirmation process?

And of course, she didn't know because he obviously clicked the window closed when he was done. Otherwise she would have known immediately when she got back to discover that she had NOT logged off and the Congratulations page would have still been open.

And of course the car is Barbie Pink. She obviously bought the car and either had serious regrets or her husband jumped on her for buying it and she's blaming the poor kid as a way to get out of it. Lame.