-Pembroke, Ontario, Canada

- Dec. 23rd, Lance Perkins, got a credit card bill for $7,625.88 after his 17-year-old son used his credit card to make in-game purchases for one of the FIFA series of soccer games for his Xbox.

- the father said:

"It floored me. Literally floored me, when I'd seen what I was being charged," Perkins told CBC News.

- the father had given his son a credit card for emergencies or to make purchases for the family's convenience store

- dad said his son didn't know what he was doing:

"He thought it was a one-time fee for the game," Perkins said.  "He's just as sick as I am, [because] he never believed he was being charged for every transaction, or every time he went onto the game."

- dad contacted Microsoft and they told him the bill would stand

- Dad quickly contacted his credit card company, and was told unless he wanted to have his son charged with fraud, there was nothing it could do.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/pembroke-xbox-bill-8000-1.3397534

yep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nojWJ6-XmeQ

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You know what, a 17 year old kid should be more financially responsible than that. I don't blame EA, Microsoft or the credit card company at all. It's the kid's fault. The dad should make the son work to pay it back... No sympathy here.

EDIT: well, I can sympathize with the dad, it wasn't his fault. And I don't consider him liable because he let his son have the card, because once again, you should be able to expect a certain degree of financial responsibility from a frikkin 17 year old kid.

What can you possibly spend 7500 Dollar on in a Fifa game ?

What floors me is that this game has 7000$ of microsaction content.

Well, I'm 17 myself, and yeah, the kid should've been way more responsible than that.

(If Teeqoz tries to quote me about amiibo, I swear to god...)

that kid needs a good spanking, and the xbox banned from him for life. Credit cards too.

Lmao I was just about to do that before I read that last part

Well he better got Messi and Ronaldo in his ultimate team.. If not money wasted

I don't wanna say they're idiots, but they're idiots.

Ive spent more than that on csgo.