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Title: 3 yr old buys £9000 car on ebay
Post by: idiotboy on September 26, 2006, 11:00:12 AM: A 3 year old boy in Lincolnshire bought a £9000 barbie-pink car off ebay (http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1881108,00.html)

go little dude!
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Post by: albertjia on September 26, 2006, 11:32:30 AM: LOL, what a hobby...
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Post by: Shumatsu Samurai on September 26, 2006, 08:33:15 PM: Never leave your PC unattended XD
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Post by: fsw on September 26, 2006, 11:18:13 PM: I smell a good marketing ploy... but is this *really* news worthy of the... Guardian???
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Post by: kuno_thunder on September 27, 2006, 09:22:33 AM: "White people? Please, PLEASE... beat your kids." - Russell Peters.

How appropriate.
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Post by: smoothee on September 27, 2006, 12:14:38 PM: i saw this on the news.. he bougt a PINk convertible and he wont admit it.. lol
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Post by: kwanleekwan on September 27, 2006, 06:14:52 PM: Kids are much clever today. Even a 3 year old boy know how to use computer. I don't think I can do the same thing when I was 3 year old....
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Post by: fsw on September 27, 2006, 11:09:08 PM: Quote from: kwanleekwan
Kids are much clever today. Even a 3 year old boy know how to use computer. I don't think I can do the same thing when I was 3 year old....

But were computers so prevalent back then? A close friend of mine's son (who is a few years old) can outplay most people on his xbox.

Simply because his father continuosly plays games - and that's where he probably picked it up from. I guess if something is so common it becomes second nature.

The kid probably didn't think anything was wrong when he bought the car.
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Post by: elgie on September 28, 2006, 06:30:52 PM: err.. it's not that a kid can't read at age 3 (I started at 2 and a half :pimp: ) but, he may be a little too young to browse through the ebay site, click the right buttons, make a bid and then understand that he has made a purchase. Sounds like bullshit to me.
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Post by: F3nr1l on September 29, 2006, 06:22:34 AM: Don't doubt the intellect of kids. My 6 year old cousin flawlessly installed surround sound, tivo and a fax machine in my relative's house..on the first try.
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Post by: elgie on September 29, 2006, 08:16:00 PM: still, there's a difference between a 6 years old, who can make simple numerical calculations, and a 3 yrs old, who just recently learnt some spatial notions.
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Post by: jmantaiwan on October 14, 2006, 07:37:27 AM: Sounds like they need to watch this kid like a hawk! Great computer skills. sounds like we have the next great hacker on our hands. Everyone change your passwords the baby is on the lose!