Posted on 09/26/2006 5:47:00 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
LONDON (Reuters) - Jack Neal briefly became the proud owner of a pink convertible car after he managed to buy it for 9,000 pounds ($17,000) on the Internet despite being only three years old.
Jack's mother told the BBC she had left her password for the eBay auction site in her computer and her son used the "buy it now" option to complete the purchase.
"Jack's a whizz on the PC and just pressed all the right buttons," Rachel Neal said.
The seller of the second-hand car, a dealer from Worcestershire, central England, was amused by the bid and agreed not to force the sale through.
"Luckily he saw the funny side and said he would re-advertise," Neal said.
A handout photograph released on September 26, 2006 shows a pink Nissan Figaro car at a car dealership near Worcestershire, England, which was inadvertently purchased on the ebay auction website by a three year old boy on his mother's computer. (Paul Jones/Handout/Reuters)
Cute car; I like the sage green one behind it too.
The little boy probably meant to be searching in the pony section of Ebay.
Methinks mom did it realized she couldn't get out of it and tossed Jr under the bus. I could be wrong but I'd start with that theory here.......
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