Amazon must refund up to $70 million to parents for in-app purchases made by kids

[boingboing]

Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/04/05/amazon-must-refund-up-to-70-m.html

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[spejic]

@RatMan

I know adults who haven’t learned that lesson yet.

Are you implying that Mexico won’t pay for it?

[AndrewTF]

This happened to me with Apple back when my son was little. My wife downloaded some kids’ game app for him not knowing about the in-app purchases. I was a little startled when I got an email receipt from Apple for $300 worth of virtual puppy food. To their credit, I called them and they removed the charges, no questions asked. However they also gave me instructions on how to disable in-app purchases on the iPhone (not very obvious or intuitive) and said “Now that you know how to do that, don’t call us asking for a refund again.”