MINI: What Did Your Kids Buy Online?

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Music, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Music Interviews

4.7 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Noah, a 4-year-old boy from the US bought over 900 SpongeBob SquarePants ice blocks which totalled over $3000 (AUD) on his mum’s Amazon account without her knowing!

Last week, Christian had a similar experience when he went to use his card for a purchase at a shop.

When he got to the register the lady said "Oh, that cards been declined!" Turns out his daughter had maxed his card on shoes!

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0:00.0	Christian O'Connell's show Tuesday night.
0:02.5	Asking you at the moment, what have your kids got online, or maybe on your phone, without you knowing?
0:08.4	Let's go to lines.
0:09.6	Martin.
0:10.3	Christian, my children spent $1,800 on a game called Roblox of costumes and all sorts of odd things.
0:18.6	That's the in-app purchases, isn't it?
0:20.6	That is the in-app purchases. Because you a month. That is the in-app purchases.
0:22.2	Because you don't notice the one buck here, the one buck there and something.
0:25.2	There's suddenly 1,800, just under $2,000.
0:28.9	Yeah, over three months.
0:30.6	And I did have monitoring on the credit card, but because it wasn't over a certain amount,
0:35.9	it didn't pop up.
0:36.7	They knew.
0:37.4	Under the radar. They knew.
0:38.3	Under the radar.
0:40.2	They fly under the radar.
0:44.5	I heard this crazy thing about this thing, Roblox, which your kids are using Martin.
0:45.9	Not anymore.
0:46.6	Oh, yeah.
0:47.7	They've been bad now.
0:53.1	But it's over two-thirds of US kids are playing Roblox, right? So two in three kids are playing it.
0:54.9	And this guy on a podcast I was listening to said,
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