Eight-year-old Theo Rowland-Fry ran up an eye-watering £980 bill for his parents by buying virtual donuts for his favorite iPad game The Simpsons: Tapped Out.
He made more than 100 iTunes purchases between January and March in his bid to progress through the game he found so addictive.
It was only when his parents realized that their bank account had been almost cleared of funds that they began to piece together what had happened.
Dad Nick, from Bristol, said: “Theo is only just eight and has no real concept of the monetary value attached.
“As far as he was concerned he was just buying doughnuts.
‘We know others caught out by the same thing. A friend’s little girl spent £350 on a horse game. One add-on was £69.95 for a little diamond to go in the horse’s mane. It’s outrageous.
“iPads can be great for keeping them occupied but there has to be more control.
“If you buy something on Amazon you have to agree to pay for it, enter additional information to pay and then get a confirmation email so you can keep track. With the iPad it seems to be a free-for-all.”
However this story does happy ending…Apple have agreed to refund all the money which had been run up by Theo.
But, for now at least, the boy’s iPad remains locked away in a drawer.
Via: Daily Mail