{"id":659,"date":"2021-02-25T07:45:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T06:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/25\/our-11-year-old-daughter-ran-up-a-2400-gaming-bill\/"},"modified":"2021-02-25T07:45:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T06:45:52","slug":"our-11-year-old-daughter-ran-up-a-2400-gaming-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/25\/our-11-year-old-daughter-ran-up-a-2400-gaming-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Our 11-year-old daughter ran  up a \u00a32,400 gaming bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife was in hospital and couldn\u2019t monitor her spending on Roblox in-app purchases<\/p>\n<p><strong>My 11-year-old daughter made more than 300 in-app purchases over five days on Roblox, the online games platform,<\/strong> <strong>resulting in a \u00a32,400 bill on my wife\u2019s PayPal account. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>At the time, my wife was in ICU recovering from a 15-hour operation to remove a brain tumour. Incapacitated, and without access to her phone, she was unable to authorise or monitor this spending. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2021\/feb\/25\/our-11-year-old-daughter-ran-up-a-2400-gaming-bill\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8c0b5d3bd3301d9333c6130feec8c11e35c149de\/0_18_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=977d997d4acfd1c85a2324f1bb65705f\" title=\"Our 11-year-old daughter ran  up a \u00a32,400 gaming bill\" \/>My wife was in hospital and couldn\u2019t monitor her spending on Roblox in-app purchases<br \/>\nMy 11-year-old daughter made more than 300 in-app purchases over five days on Roblox, the online games platform, resulting in a \u00a32,400 bill on my wife\u2019s PayPal account.<br \/>\nAt the time, my wife was in ICU recovering from a 15-hour operation to remove a brain tumour. Incapacitated, and without access to her phone, she was unable to authorise or monitor this spending.  Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife was in hospital and couldn\u2019t monitor her spending on Roblox in-app purchases My 11-year-old daughter made more than 300 in-app purchases over five days on Roblox, the online games platform, resulting in a \u00a32,400 bill on my wife\u2019s PayPal account. At the time, my wife was in ICU recovering from a 15-hour operation &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/25\/our-11-year-old-daughter-ran-up-a-2400-gaming-bill\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our 11-year-old daughter ran  up a \u00a32,400 gaming bill<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}