Writes one commenter, on "A New Jersey toddler spent nearly $1,800 using his mom’s phone. She didn’t know until packages started arriving" (WaPo).
From the article:
Although she’d loaded the items into her online Walmart shopping cart while browsing for the family’s new home in Monmouth Junction, Kumar knew she hadn’t purchased any of them.... While playing on his mom’s phone, the 22-month-old had gone rogue, buying nearly $1,800 of furniture that was in the cart. When the Kumars realized what had happened, they tried to cancel the remaining orders but were too late....
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Stupid is as stupid does. Don't let your toddler play with your phone.
There's no way to avoid letting your kids play with the electronics. That would be like our parents not letting us touch the TV. And there's nothing unusual about a kid buying something without intending to, though usually it's an app upgrade that google/apple will reverse with a phone call. (After which, you change your settings to block in-app purchases).
Leaving $1,800 worth of stuff you haven't decided to buy in a shopping cart in an open browser is asking for trouble.
That commenter makes me wonder if the toddler had anything to do with it all. It's not like they dusted the order button for finger prints. Blame the dog, blame the kids, oops, sorry, too late to return.
Same thing happened to me only it was Guns.com.
I would NEVER USE the stupid little apps provided by Google, Amazon, or any retailer.
The apps track your location, and make butt-shopping far too easy!
Dropping the other shoe, I can see someone attempting to scam the retailer with the ...........“I didn’t do nuffin” defense.
While playing on his mom’s phone, the 22-month-old had gone rogue
wendybar beat me to it (as usual :) but Seriously....
WHY are you letting your toddler play with your phone? Do you let it play with your gun?
WHY would you let your tween play with your phone? Do you let it play with your gun?
WHY would you let your teen play with your phone? Do you let it play with your gun?
WHY are you letting ANYONE play with your phone?
THAT is What the lock screen is FOR
she’d loaded the items into her online Walmart shopping cart while browsing
1 - So it was stuff they were probably going to buy anyway.
2 - Very dumb idea if otherwise, one could end up buying the 'cart' by picking up the phone in the wrong place.
3 - White Castle.
Doubly "clever" because she will get it all in the divorce.
I’m calling BS
How TF is this a story in a national newspaper?
Oh, yeah, Biden...
The headline makes it seem like the toddler was hitting multiple buttons, randomly choosing items and then completing the purchase. But the text of the article makes it seem more like he just touched one button — buy. It's a button I'm sure the website makes very obvious, so it's the most likely thing to touch on the screen once you get that far in your shopping. It's not like the kid was wily!
tim maguire shows that he is intellectually challenged when he said ...
There's no way to avoid letting your kids play with the electronics.
THAT'S WHAT THE SCREEN LOCK IS FOR!!!!!
seriously, you DON'T know that you can lock your phone??? !!!??!!!
"I’m calling BS."
I second that emotion. Sounds like a ploy to get Walmart to comp the lady the goods because of what her adorable toddler did.
It's not like the kid was wily!
They should still give the kid a beatin' he'll never forget, on the same principle by which the Dems want to punish Trump for causing the Capital kerfuffle.
A full 10 YEARS AGO someone documented a house cat playing a video game on an iPad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kApdB7aGmZs
If you didn't know toddler's accidents was possible and probable then you should not own a smart phone.
At work, I had a coworker that knew I had experience doing IT stuff. She was asking me for help with a problem she now had with her iPad. See, Apple and newly formed Alphabet got in a hissy fit about phone OS, so Apple dropped the YouTube app from their standard bloatware installed on the iPad. Users would now have to download the Alphabet YouTube app. The coworker's problem was that change was a step beyond two-year-old, who was used to opening the iPad, opening YouTube, and watching her favorite videos. My response, "if your child can operate an iPad at two years of age, they can figure out how to use the new YouTube app once you download it. Obviously, it didn't take them too long to learn the first time."
Sounds like a Walmart promotion to me.
Like the "Secret Santa/Layaway buyouts" we hear about more Christmases.
I'm not buying the story.
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The key clue is that the stuff that arrived was all stuff that she'd picked out for her new house: "Madhu Kumar had shopped for — but not actually ordered — the furniture that last week started arriving in waves at her New Jersey home.... Although she’d loaded the items into her online Walmart shopping cart while browsing for the family’s new home in Monmouth Junction, Kumar knew she hadn’t purchased any of them."
It's good publicity for Walmart, making it more widely known that you can buy furniture there, maybe furnish your whole house.
Kumar?
Sounds suspicious.
Were copious amounts of weed involved?
'It's good publicity for Walmart, making it more widely known that you can buy furniture there, maybe furnish your whole house.'
It would be better publicity if they allowed the Kumars to cancel the order...
I believe the Mom, because I know several inveterate online shoppers and all last year they were talking about their new system for avoiding spending all their money on online shopping. The system is to load stuff into your cart, but don't buy it. The idea is that you get almost as much of a dopamine rush from putting it in your cart as you would from actually buying it.
"The system is to load stuff into your cart, but don't buy it. The idea is that you get almost as much of a dopamine rush from putting it in your cart as you would from actually buying it."
This.
Same thing happened to me only it was Guns.com.
I suppose that explains the empty shelves at Cabela's..........and here I thought it had something to do with Biden, the Democrats, and their over-reach on gun control.
Well, it's not as if you can password-protect your phone ...
"Caught on a Hot Mic" ? Is there any evidence at all that he was not aware that the mic was live?
If the kid starts now he can work off the debt by the time kindergarten begins.
"Caught on a Hot Mic" ? Is there any evidence at all that he was not aware that the mic was live?
Is there any evidence at all that he was aware....???
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