No one would start intentionally shopping for a phone priced that high just by looking at this ad. It has to be a more literal clickbait.
UPDATE: I did not consider the currency. The number of responses mentioning currency tells me that’s what I overlooked. I am no longer even mildly infuriated and am therfore a liar 😅
If your kid can just buy something in two clicks on your phone, let alone a $13,000 thing, it’s your fault for not securing your payment method and not setting sane credit card limits.
Or just… Idk… Signing out of your Amazon account and not having it autofill a password?
Or literally anything. I guess a single iota of convenience is worth the total sacrifice of security.
You could ask to get refunded if it wasn’t actually you, though. From the credit card if nobody else.
No 7 year old should have dad’s access code/password.
They should also know to not touch dad’s phone.
Would you let them use your work PC? Drive the car? Play with a Leatherman?
Tell me you don’t have children without telling me you don’t have children.
Really? I’ve got a boy and I don’t give him access to any of my money. That’s just irresponsible
Maybe dad should have a passcode on his phone and banking apps? Literally no one can “get their mitts” on my phone and use it without my consent short of holding a gun to my head. So many of these parents seem to handwave responsibility from fictional scenarios.
Hello Armchair Parent! And welcome.
Plenty of actual parents relate to dropping whatever they’re doing to find out why kids 1 and 2 are screaming in another room (argument, saw a spider, “play” screaming, who knows). That gives an eternity of time to a mischievous 2yo kid #3 to grab the shiny toy so carelessly dropped without being locked GASP! and then tap not just twice but >100 times.
Factor in a parent being a normie mobile user whose browser already has permission to open Amazon links in their Amazon app, and then it’s only a matter of the 2yo clicking big cartoony button “Buy Now” and then big cartoony button “Place Order” but hey what are the chances of that :P
That gives an eternity of time to a mischievous 2yo kid #3 to grab the shiny toy so carelessly dropped without being locked GASP! and then tap not just twice but >100 times.
See my hand wave remark. I may not have kids but am old enough that a few of my mates are starting. I’ll ask one if he thinks this series of incredibly unlikely events (that ignore lock after time limit, face ID for payment methods, common sense) would work with his child but I suspect the response will be laughter.
Far more likely is people giving these devices to children inappropriately and them figuring this stuff out rather than kids “mashing buttons” into purchasing things from Amazon. Do appreciate the classic “yOu MuSt NoT hAvE kIDs” response to literally any form of parental criticism though.
So many of these parents seem to handwave responsibility from fictional scenarios.
Do appreciate the classic “yOu MuSt NoT hAvE kIDs” response to literally any form of parental criticism though.
“But I learned it from you!” 😭
I don’t see how those statements are incongruent or worthy of being particularly funny. Must be a parent thing I guess.
Could be in some currency besides dollars. Colombian pesos are ~4000 pesos to the dollar and use the dollar symbol as the currency symbol. I’m sure there are other currencies that are similar.
I see Mexican pesos as $ inside the country as well and either MXN or MX$ when talking to the US branch. 1USD = about 20 MX$. I’m seeing it at $700 USD on sale which would track at about 14k MXN but not sure who else has a similar conversion rate
Thought these ads were offering a way to launder money.
It is a 1k USD phone. I would hope Amazon prevents one click buying on very large or very expensive orders. (You can buy a literal house on Amazon)
I just checked though and uhhh the 7,000 USD tiny house has the 1 click buy button on it…
Doubt that’s US Dollars.
the scammer thinks he’s gonna score $12000 net on a mis-clicked one-click.
meanwhile bezos is drooling over amazon’s 50% average cut on marketplace transactions.
Lots of vendors set their prices algorithmically… So like when competitors raise their prices or demand seems high for some reason or something, the price will auto-adjust to theoretically maximize profits. The algorithms are often pretty dumb.
So sometimes when you see something like this, you’re witnessing a dynamic pricing algorithm spiraling out of control because it wasn’t implemented very well, and nobody’s paying attention.
That is much more reasonable, one of a couple possibilities I’m now seeing.
The other side of this I’ve seen is vendors setting the price to really high levels when out of stock. I’ve heard this explained as “the algorithm will punish you” for going out of stock and “if someone places an order, you can always scalp one”
Oh interesting-- Yeah gaming the recommendation/search algorithms is another, related explanation. Like I know someone with an Etsy store who says that various things, like running out of stock or putting your store in “vacation mode” will hurt your store’s visibility, so people find ways to game it. Totally makes sense that the same kind of thing would be going on on Amazon.
Weird that they’d allocate ad spend at the same time that they were out of stock, but like I said, the algorithms are pretty coarse and probably just not that coordinated.
So just outrage for the sake of outrage
