A 9-year-old had to download two free mobile games holiday with grandma and grandpa.
Two weeks later, the apps cost the family 60,000 crowns.
– nine year old is heartbroken over what happened, father says Max Florenius DN.
At the end of June, the nine year old on holiday with her Grandma and grandpa. He asked his parents if he could download the popular mobile game Clash of Clans and Dragonvale from the App Store.
The apps were free, they went along with it.
– He had to do it through my sign because it concerned free games. Then we had no idea that the Games were a variety of levels where you had to buy new skills and strengths, and that these cost big money, says Max Florenius DN.
Was shocked by the bill
On Monday, a bill of 21,000 crowns from the credit card company. The family blocked the card immediately, but it turned out that the purchases within apps amounted to SEK 60 000.
Both games are free to download, but with a small text explaining the App Store that it is possible to make purchases inside apps. Ranging from 99 cents to 99.99 dollars, the Swedish money will be just over SEK 900.
The Son of Man has not understood that it is about real money and now awaits the family on notice from Apple in France, as they are owe the money.
– We understand of course that we have a responsibility in this, but this turns the game companies and Apple to young and as we see it, a 9-year-old did not enter into a valid contract with an American multinational corporation without parental consent, says Max Florenius DN.
Warns of “free games”
Since 2011, there is a barrier that allows users must enter their password each time the hen buy something in a games, but it has proven to function poorly.
On the site Pappas apps, like reviewing of free apps, warns many parents Clash of Clans. They tell their children and young people have been able to burn large amounts of money in the game without having to enter the password.
“My son has been able to order the” gems “of the Clash of Clans for, among behold, the more than 23 000 SEK. Damn hope I can solve this. It’s terrible, can of course destroy the entire economy, “writes the signature” Christer Ingot “whose 12-year-old son not to have understood that it was real money that was debited.
The game has an age limit of 13 years under the Finnish game producer Supercell. But at the Apple Store download page says that the limit is nine years.
Aftonbladet has unsuccessfully sought representatives of Apple Sweden for answers on what the company is doing to prevent more prone to this type of economic bangs .
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