Father stuck with bill for son’s $8000 Xbox purchases

TrekMD · January 12, 2016, 12:25:01 PM

Oh, this is painful:Â Father stuck with bill for son's $8000 Xbox purchases.

Just a couple of paragraphs to give you a taste:

A father from Pembroke, Canada is paying the price for not staying up to day with his son's gaming habits by having to pay around $8000 for purchases made on his family's Xbox One console by his 17 year old son.

The son had apparently been using a credit card given to him for emergencies to make in-game purchases in one of the FIFA soccer games on the console. The son claims that while he was using the card without permission from his father, he had no idea that the game was charging the credit card he had on file for the initial game purchase and was apparently equally shocked.

Shadowrunner · January 12, 2016, 14:56:20 PM

Yeah, that sucks :21:

Â A 17 year old kid should have more sense than that though, and I don't even know how you could spend that much!

TrekMD · January 12, 2016, 14:59:53 PM

I know!Â $8K!Â How can you add up to that much on these games?

vandro · January 13, 2016, 18:17:34 PM

I know someone who spent half his mother's savings on Fifa packs. It's crazy!

TrekMD · January 13, 2016, 23:13:41 PM

Quote from: "vandro"I know someone who spent half his mother's savings on Fifa packs. It's crazy!

That is crazy indeed!Â

Greyfox · January 14, 2016, 11:56:58 AM

I'd kick that 8,000 dollars out of him for that. Dopey little idiot!, well there goes his college fund on a stupid football game..well done...

zapiy · January 14, 2016, 15:39:21 PM

My lad spent £400 before xmas on DLC influding Fifa coins, needless to say his pocket money has stopped for the entire 2016.

Shadowrunner · January 14, 2016, 17:14:08 PM

Quote from: "zapiy"My lad spent £400 before xmas on DLC influding Fifa coins, needless to say his pocket money has stopped for the entire 2016.

Expensive lesson to learn! I guess it could have been worse but that's still a lot of money! I really had no idea you could spend that much on DLC.

zapiy · January 19, 2016, 06:28:23 AM

Well its not just DLC, full games and special editions.. One that really upset me was he purchased Halo 5 limited edition for the best part of £60 so i guess around $100 the same day i purchased the physical copy from a store.Â That was the moment I had to walk out of the house and calm down.

Greyfox · January 19, 2016, 15:38:31 PM

I'll have two copies..lol...walked out of the house? I'd have walked him out of the house and got any work needed doing as the pay back..which brings this to mind.......

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imagine you did this?

Shadowrunner · January 19, 2016, 17:11:09 PM

Well that's a little extreme!

TrekMD · January 19, 2016, 21:40:09 PM

Yep, extreme is one word for it!Â :24:

zapiy · January 19, 2016, 22:49:10 PM

lol, don't worry he will pay me back.. No pocket money until its all recovered.

vandro · January 20, 2016, 00:16:09 AM

Wow! We're you able to take the one version back to the shop?

Shadowrunner · January 25, 2016, 23:09:39 PM

Looks like Microsoft gave the guy his money back!
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/8000-x ... 0-6434145/

Sounds like it was because his son was a minor, might be worth sending an email to Microsoft, Zapiy.