Toddler buys car on eBay via dad's app — could it happen to you?


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  • Monday, 15 Jul 2013

An Oregon father learned the hard way why children shouldn't play with smartphones when his 14-month-old daughter used his iPhone to buy a car listed on the online auction site. 

Luckily for Paul Stoute, the car in question was a classic 1962 Austin Healy Sprite in serious need of care and attention, meaning that his daughter's winning bid of just US$202 (RM641.45) plus delivery (US$225 [RM714.49] in total) didn't exactly break the bank. 

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