Three-Year-Old Boy Uses Mother’s eBay Account to Buy $17,000 Car

Digital Journal — Children eat non-stop, break things constantly and always want something. Frankly, kids are expensive. That is especially so for one woman whose three-year-old boy used her PC to buy a $17,000 (US) car on Internet auction site, eBay.

Jack Neal’s mother Rachel apparently left her computer logged on when Jack decided to start clicking on buttons. His parents only discovered what his son had done when they received a congratulations message from eBay regarding a pink Nissan Figaro.

Three-year-old Jack Neal bought a pink Nissan on an Internet site.

“We couldn’t understand what was happening,” the boy’s mother told the Sun. “Neither of us had bought anything. So we checked and saw it was a Barbie-pink car which we’d bought for £8,999. We flew into a panic.”

When Jack woke the next morning, he told his parents he bought a car.

“Jack’s a whizz on the PC and just pressed all the right buttons,” the boy’s mother said in the same interview.

The boy’s father later called the seller of the vehicle and explained what happened. . “Luckily he saw the funny side and said he would re-advertise,” the mother said.

Paul Jones, co-director of Worcester Road Motors said his soft-top, which has a 1.0-litre turbo-charged engine, is very collectable. “He must have good taste in cars. We’ve all got children and they do silly things at times, so it was no problem.”

Even funnier: It was the first time the dealership sold a car on the site. It had been imported from Japan, refurbished and put on eBay.