The Horror on Amazon

The other day I went to work and happily left my lassy on my PC as I have countless times before. She likes my PC because it's got a bigger screen and she enjoys playing The Sims 4 and Minecraft on it, as well as using it for youtube and general internet surfing. so yesterday before I was about to head off to work and decided to check my emails, to my horror I was greeted with half a dozen emails from Amazon stating that my orders have had their payments declined.

This was news to me as I haven't ordered from Amazon for about two months, once i'd seen what they were the penny dropped and realised that my lovely daughter had been looking at the toys as she has done hundreds of times before though this time has decided to go a little further than looking. Sadly because of auto saving my login details on Google for speed and convenience my daughter was able to login to my account, which is a case of a few mouse clicks and no reading of what you're doing.

At first glance I thought she had just ordered one item to which I easily cancelled, wasn't until I had went back on my emails and seen the full extent of her shopping spree. Not only did she order the cancelled item but she also ordered two more items both at x4 quantity all of it totaling to around £70, but the cherry on top of this nightmare shop was she also had also signed up for 'drumroll' Amazon Prime have to say seeing that just topped it off, i've been stung by Prime before and I bet countless others have to. For safety and peace of mind I quickly removed my payment information from Amazon and i'm reluctant to re add it incase Prime strikes.

So horror shop over and disaster averted, what i've learned out of this is yes saving info like login and payment details is good for ease of use but even when it's your own PC bad things can still happen.

The blame game, I do blame myself for being lazy and saving all my info but also happily blame Amazon and probably most other online retailers as ordering items from any site is as easy as child'splay as it's been proven.

Conclusion easy payment options would really benefit from some kind of pin to confirm any orders so even if this happened again the final transaction couldn't be confirmed without the proposed pin.