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by edwcross 359 days ago
Hello, sir!

Since you are so nice, would you please reimburse my daughter for the 300€ she spent without authorization? I mean, the Robux were bought at 11 PM, all in a burst, as a typical addiction pattern. She didn't even get to use them, since I got a notification about the money being used via the phone company (of course, she never had to steal a credit card, she found one of the infinite ways of siphoning money for bullshit virtual money; but no, it's the parents' fault for not realizing there is yet another backdoor allowing kids to spend money they don't have; and don't worry, the phone company hides them well enough that even if you try to enable all sorts of parent controls, there's always an extra option allowing them to be overridden, and in the most discreet way possible).

(By the way, I already tried to ask for reimbursement, but then Roblox says it's Google Play's fault; Google says it's the phone company's fault; and the phone company says it's the parents' fault for not disabling the hidden "allow spending 20 times the monthly bill on bullshit" checkbox that's locked with the "allow EU roaming"; so if your kid ever needs to cross the border, and can still call you for free thanks to EU rules, you'll still need to let them enable "spend 300€ out of bundle" because the law forgot about this loophole, so of course the phone company used it.)

Oh, wait, maybe this is part of the genuine life lessons Roblox is supposed to teach children?