The Eye-Watering Amount of Money Robin's Son Spent On Her Credit Card

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Speaker 1 (00:12):
I heard podcasts year more kiss podcasts, playlists and listen
live on the Freeheart Robin and Kids Now with Correos
the podcast. So easy to shop online with all of
our credit cards saved in our phones and things like that,
so when the kids get hold they can shop. They

(00:35):
can all themselves. Seventy thousand chubber chuffs in Kentucky.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
I'd like to see that.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
No, you really wouldn't. I'm sure it's boxes and boxes
of them. And she realized that's worse, like she realized
before they got there, and tried to stop it, and
then all didn't happen. But like me, Amazon took them back.
So one of my children, who will remain nameless, he
knows who he is. It was, and look, it was

(01:03):
extenuating circumstances. It was literally the two weeks after their
father had died, so a lot was going on in
the house. They weren't back at school. I remember giving
him my credit cards. He wanted to just buy this
particular player on FIFA, and I thought, okay, that's no problem.
The problem was that I then didn't retrieve the well,

(01:25):
I took the credit card back and assumed it was
a one off payment. No, No, two weeks, Yes, how
much how much he spent on FIFA another game? No
for buying his dream team team then talking hundreds of
dollars thousands, five seven, seven thousand dollars on a dream team.

(01:48):
And it took two weeks. And when I realized, because
EA used to EA Sports, I think owned FIFA the game.
And so when I realized, I was like panicked, and
you know, like a lot was going on. So I'm getting,
you know, their father's death certificate and saying this is
what's happened. Yeah, nothing even respond. So I chose the

(02:10):
other option, which actually turned out to be brilliant. So
we were going into state to see my mum, and
so I got the phone bill with all the charges
and I made him sit on the plane and highlight
then add them up on the credit card the credit
card right, sorry, not the phone book credit card bill,
add them all up. And then I said, so when
I feel that you have paid back seven thousand dollars,

(02:32):
because he was getting pocket money, so what am I
going to do? Give me back the money he's already got.
He stopped getting pocket money, and I said, you will
not pay play fee for again until I'm ready. And
that was twelve months later and he was off the addiction.
Yeah okay, bro okay, well kind of grand.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
In the long run, save you.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
I don't even understand. What what do you even do
with the dream team? There's nothing.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
It's a good team though, the.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Kids, and you've got the dream team anyway. The anchor
of buckin Hi hi anchor? So that you're you spending money,
your dad's money? Who was this?

Speaker 2 (03:14):
So?

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah, it wasn't my kids. But I showed my father
in law a car on eBay. I sort of this
game in my laptop and I was like, have a
look at this car. And I could see him moving
the mouse around and I'm thinking, oh, maybe he's just
looking through the photos. Next minute he gives it back
to me and he's pressed the buy now button. I
can't remember how much the car was, but it was

(03:35):
sure like around over ten thousand dollars. And I think
I think I even cried.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Did he realize that's what he'd done?

Speaker 3 (03:42):
No? No, I think he was just excited and he
was find something. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Now what was it? It's a binding contract?

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah, yeah, a car? Was it to the cell? Oh gosh,
I can't remember I reached out to the cellar and
I'm like, I'm so sorry. I think I even blamed
it on my sons.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah, but you still got the car, right, No, no.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
No, no, fell it was really it was really yeah,
that's good, Thank goodness.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
What kylon of ipswich?

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Hi?

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Hi Hi, I'm nine? Okay, what have you done?

Speaker 2 (04:22):
What's your boy?

Speaker 3 (04:23):
All right?

Speaker 2 (04:23):
So I gave my mom all my birthday money and
I was trying to buy these heelies off Amazons.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
Heelies. Are they those things that are the shoes that
a wheel got wheels on them?

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah? Okay, And I brought them and then my mom
got a notification because I thought it was like sixty
five dollars or something. And then my mom got a
notification in her certain saying that she spent one hundred
and twenty dollars. The money that I was looking at

(04:54):
was us.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Oh you us dollars?

Speaker 3 (04:59):
Did you get them?

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Where?

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Did she try and cancel them?

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Oh? She canceled it? You almost a bargain?

Speaker 3 (05:06):
Did you get in trouble? Okay?

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah, I've gotten heat mate.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Well this is I mean, this is for you there, mate.
What we've got for you is a two hundred dollars
to spend at fun Lab that's supposed that has strike
and Holy Moley Archie Brothers Hijiingk Hotels. So you can
have a whole lot of fun at fun Lab.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Baite.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
Oh is that good? There you go, buddy, two hundred
bucks you can have.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
You got siblings, Ah, yeah, I got, I got I'm
my brother.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yeah you're going to take you yeah maybe yeah, well
maybe I take people you like

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Skyland, Well it's all yours, mate,