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[–] LordAmplifier@pawb.social 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I wonder how they thought this would go down. Were they just hoping that their mum wouldn't notice a $200 charge? Were they going to say, "oh, can't get refunds, guess I'll pay you back over time" (ask for forgiveness instead of permission, basically)? What was the end game?

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm going to assume a certain level of mental immaturity. Either still a child or in a child-like mental state.

[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 months ago

Could be a child (and in this case probably is) but I've known people like this as grown-ups too.

They just get really excited about the thing and want to have/do/whatever the thing and have absolutely no inhibition about using whatever method at their disposal to get it.

The rationality of the choice and the consequences just don't factor in - or are at least something their brain tells them is "a problem for later"

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I was once a dumb kid. My thought process at the time was that may parents simply wouldn't notice the transaction on the account because they rarely checked.

Thankfully, I didn't go through with it, but knowing what I know now, they definitely would have noticed a strange transaction, even for a small dollar amount.

It wasn't even because I had no money - I was being paid an allowance and could typically afford the things I wanted to buy. I just wanted to buy stuff online and I didn't have a bank account or debit/credit card to process the transaction.

[–] LordAmplifier@pawb.social 2 points 5 months ago

The original post made me think it's probably a teenager because they had internet access, but I can see how a younger child might think their parents wouldn't notice a charge. To a child, their parents usually pay with that card and never talk about it again. And because even young children have fairly unsupervised internet access nowadays (the post is from 2023), that sounds like a reasonable explanation to me.

I understand the "frustration" of wanting to buy something that you can only get online, but you don't have a bank account or anything. I was in pretty much the same situation as a teenager. When I was around 17 years old, I once ordered something and paid cash-on-delivery, but that's incredibly inconvenient. Using your parents' card can be incredibly tempting, which isn't an excuse to do it, but looking at it from this perspective, I can understand their motivation.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You don't think people would do that? Get their parent's credit cards and buy shit without permission?

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Like roblocks shit or something, sure. Not $200 of Bugs/Daffy Mpreg.

[–] Breezy@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Haha my sister spent almost 500$ on the phone bill playing that dumb crane app where you actually operate a crane in Japan through your phone. And she did that shit 3 times just with 300 and then 400 the separate times.

At the same time she used her money to buy and sell characters, which included artwork of them. I have honestly no idea what that means but she wasted such money on this stupid shit.

[–] callyral@pawb.social 7 points 6 months ago

well, i haven't done that as i'd usually just ask my parents, but i guess if your parents are stricter you learn to break rules