I would have kept the toys and donated the kid.

There are charities that collect toys to give to the less fortunate kids. I would be donating !

I read the story somewhere. The kid was allowed to order a Barbie off Amazon for her birthday and she then asked to go back on her mom’s phone to see if it had shipped. She used that opportunity to order some additional birthday presents.

You can order items via Alexa. Hopefully, my kids will never find out this little trick. Also, on Amazon shopping, you don't have to enter card details. You just click 'Buy Now'.

"I'm curious to know how kids are purchasing things online" - unlocked/free for all family computer or parents not hiding their phone's unlock code, easy as that. As the picture above seems to be from the original tweet (in contrast to the stock photos BP uses mostly), the kid ordered on Amazon. Now, in contrast to their worker ethics, their return policy is quite nice, so it should be easy as pie to return that stuff in the blink of an eye. Although I completely agree with AnnaBanana in rather getting rid of that kid.

One time when our oldest daughter was in middle school, she snuck into my purse and got my credit card, and ordered some stuff online. Of course, I noticed the charge. I couldn't return it so I took it and made her do chores to pay for it. She did eventually get it once she worked off the charge but it took her awhile. She never stole my CC again.

A lot of kids order through Alexa, there needs to be some sort of preventative lock or something if there isn't already

They can order from sites that keep your credit card info available for future purchases, if you're not careful enough to remove such information after your own order. Amazon is bad about doing that, especially if you have their credit card. What I would do is make her earn everything, item by item, by doing chores around the house. Set up a pay schedule, by the chore or by the hour. When the equivalent salary is earned for a particular toy, she gets it as payment.

My house doesn’t have a phone without a password so I’ve always known my mom and dad’s passwords so I could call 911. They didn’t realize there was an emergency button that immediately calls 911. Idk if that’s how it is for others.

That is for saving your paying info on the amazon page. Either do not save your card data, or protect your access with a double validation

I've heard a couple instances of parents handing their phone to their child with a game running, to keep the kid occupied, but the kid goes on a shopping spree instead. Some times leaving things logged in for convenience bites you in the butt.

Maybe through a "Home" device. Or, you hand your kid your phone to watch a movie, not realizing that "One Click" purchasing was turned on in the Amazon app. Bam! They order crap on your account. This happened with a kid I work with, he was getting irritable while we were sitting in traffic, so I unlocked my phone, handed to him and told him to watch Netflix. Instead, he ordered 6 movies on Amazon. Luckily, I had email notifications turned on. When he handed me back my phone, I saw the emails that said, "Thank you for your purchase". I was able to cancel the orders immediately, and I turned off "One Click".

Amazon has return simple and easy return policy. I'd make her repackage every toy and send it back with an apology note.

Depends on if they have an Alexa or if she had access to the Amazon account, in this situation I place more blame on the parents because they are the ones in charge

My 2 year-old grandson loved getting hold of the remote and he ordered a Spanish language package for us for $10 a month, twice. No one speaks Spanish in our house. At least he didn't know what he was doing, but the companies make it much too easy to buy stuff without safeguards, on purpose , I suspect.

Good idea but make her give them away.

People keep their credit card info on amazon saved. They had problems with in game purchases also saving credit card info and kids making extra purchases too

My dog, brainless as she is, managed to step on my phone and make a book purchase. To this day my husband doesn't believe me. It's just that simple.

My friends 3 y.o. orders movies to watch on-line from her bedroom! Also without consent.

You could just refuse the delivery and be done with it.

Not even my son ever touched my phone when he was younger. Nor my computer, he has his own...

I would donate both the toys and the kid

I once had a friend who was a spoiled brat. (Not friends anymore) And their parents didnt use locks on their phones when the kid was younger so that she could play. Probably this was the case here, and they shopped a bit too.

It has an auto fill for the credit card

flush her down dat toilet

i think if you have an alexa it makes it easier

How do you not know how this happened?

my son (5 years old) apparently had secretly watched me punch in my security code and memorized it for later trickery and thievery

If your amazon acct has saved info, it's easy.

Children under the age of 7 are excluded from any kind of business at all

Looking at all the replies from parents here is disgusting. Yall shouldn't have kids if doing this once makes you want to abandon and hurt them what the actual

Yep. This is a good opportunity for her parents to teach her. We don't know from the post how they handled it. If they let her get away with it, then she's further on the road to being an entitled brat and they would have only themselves to blame.