Posted on 05/22/2009 9:42:58 AM PDT by JoeProBono
A New Zealand couple nearly found themselves in a financial hole when their three-year-old daughter bought an earthdigger in an internet auction. The child, Pipi Quinlan, was trying out her online skills while her parents were asleep in bed. They only unearthed the truth when they received an email demand for NZ$20,000 (£8,000) from the seller. Pipi's mother, Sarah, had left the computer logged on.
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That’s a much better story than my then 18 month old buying a book from Amazon with one-click shopping. Thankfully, customer service was very understanding. They credited my account before I even shipped the book back.
All I got was Tonka.
Pip-ee
I used to store things I wanted in my cart at Amazon, until the day I accidently bought it all with that one click shopping option.
That one-click is VERY dangerous!!!
Yep like over $300 for me. Amazon was good about it and reversed all but the few used items I had in my cart. lol
Reading material for a good while though...
What the hey....people give their kids all kinds of weird names these days.
...and now you store things in your Wish List?
Yep. And I check carefully before I hit the purchase button.
I figure they meant Pippi but spelt it Pipi.
LOL - I read those books over and over again when I was a kid.
Did she at least get a good price on the digger?
I’ve actually found a simple solution to this, after both not trusting my roommate and having stuff that isn’t supposed to be accessible to other people on my computer, yet not wanting to shut down and start up the computer every time I start and stop using it.
I set up my computer so that the screensaver activates when you roll the mouse to a certain corner of the screen, and in order to ‘wake’ the computer up from the screensaver, you have to enter a password. In addition, I made a ‘guest’ account for my friends and family so nobody had to know my personal password, and whoever’s dumb enough to leave their personal stuff logged on there deserves whatever the next user does with it.
On most recent Macs, the options are all in the System Preferences section - turning on the screensaver is under ‘dashboard and expose’ and requiring the password is, logically, under ‘security’. Apparently, this is an option with Windows Vista as well, but I’ve used Windows Vista maybe twice in my life, so I’m not much good with it.
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