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A Five-Year-Old Kid Ordered $1,000 Worth of Stuff on Amazon by Asking Alexa . . . Including a Hot Tub?

By bondsy Sep 6, 2023 | 5:48 AM

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You may have heard about kids who accidentally order something, by picking up their parent’s phone, and button mashing.  But THIS is more extreme than that.

A father shared a video on TikTok, showing how his five-year-old son ordered almost $1,000 worth of stuff on Amazon, by just ASKING Alexa to have the stuff added to his cart.

Most of it was TOYS, but he also asked for a HOT TUB, and a $500 one got ordered.  And it could’ve been a lot worse, because he was asking for MULTIPLE things, like “112 water slides,” and potentially expensive stuff, like a “rocket ship that goes five trillion miles per hour, and five trillion feet off the ground.”

The dad shared this tip, “Parents . . . make sure you disable voice purchases on your Alexa app so this doesn’t happen to you.”

It sounds like the father DID get a refund . . . because he said he “regrets not keeping the hot tub, every day.”

 

(New York Post)