Son spent money on Roblox

Discus and support Son spent money on Roblox in XBoX Games and Apps to solve the problem; I noticed that my 7-year-old son spent £203 on Robux (digital currency for the game Roblox). He was able to do this because I activated a £1 six-month... Discussion in 'XBoX Games and Apps' started by Jason_546, Jul 27, 2020.

  1. Jason_546
    Jason_546 Guest

    Son spent money on Roblox


    I noticed that my 7-year-old son spent £203 on Robux (digital currency for the game Roblox). He was able to do this because I activated a £1 six-month game pass that came with his XBOX ONE, in doing this XBOX (Microsoft) automatically set up his console
    so he could spend as much money as he liked using my PayPal account!!!!!

    My first response was to email Roblox themselves, I did this less than 3 days after his final Robux transaction. After a longwinded game of email tennis, I was eventually told that XBOX was my point of contact. After contacting XBOX (Microsoft) they said
    that I needed to give them more information, then they said that I needed to request the refund through my son's account.

    I work in the Army and have been classed as a key worker over the past 3-4 months which has made it very hard to follow up and action any refund! I am the only source of income for my family as my wife has temporary given up job to look after our two small
    children. The incident initially caused us a lot of stress in what should have been the recovering months after Christmas.

    I have had no look so far from XBOX (Microsoft) and have just had the same automated email responses from the support team, which I found to be in-personal, rude, un-compassionate and unprofessional.

    When I look at other articles on the XBOX community which are related to Children spending parents’ money without being authorised, they all appear to be locked and I am un-able to see their outcomes and actions.

    Can people let me know if they have had similar problems and managed to get a refund exception from the 14-day time limit.

    Regards,

    Jason

    :)
     
    Jason_546, Jul 27, 2020
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  2. dwgnr Win User

    Son spent money on Roblox

    We are in the united states but i requested a refund from microsoft w/in the 14 days and let them know that it was an unauthorized charge by a minor and they denied my request for a refund. I am out over $100 during this pandemic and i have no idea what
    to do to get my money back.
  3. Bandido1508 Win User

    Son spent money on Roblox

    The way this is supposed to be set up is that you have a child account and an adult account. The child account is a separate account but it cannot act independently of the adult account. From the adult account you can set purchasing permissions and even
    set a monthly allowance that will not be exceeded. You can also set restrictions on what you child views or sees and how they can pick friends.

    The problem is that most of the time when these accounts are set up, parents do not create a child account, they just set up an adult account for the child, and we cannot set permissions on an adult account.

    The only thing you can do with an adult account is remove any payment methods and add gift cards to the account as needed. That way when the money is gone its gone.
  4. Jason_546 Win User

    Son spent money on Roblox

    Thanks Bandido,

    This is not about buying a game and playing it hard for 14 days, its about XBOX cashing in on Children spending their parents money. The settings no matter how the parent sets up the initial transaction i.e. As an adult, as a teenager, child playing on parent
    account and even an adult playing on an adult account! Xbox should not allow automatic in App purchases, unless the parent has gone through a process to activate the game purchases which can not be done by accident! With your mind set its no wonder parents
    are not being refunded, are you a parent?

    Who actually would allow their child to free spend 100's, in some cases thousands of pounds/dollars to buy 100 baloon rides, a box looking farrari/lamboghini etc?

    Please don't add any more useless input to this forum! unless you admit that people that worked in support where deliberately ignoring parents refund requests and that maybe it was part of some sort of comissions process.

    THIS FORUM IS ABOUT CHILDREN SPENING IN APP PURCHASES IN THE GAME ROBLOX!!! does this clarify?

    Thanks for input and an insite into the mentality of the staff that work in XBOX support.

    Jason
  5. jason_070 Win User

    Son spent money on Roblox

    Thanks Bandido,

    A much needed easy to use explanation of how to process an xbox refund. I have been looking into a legacy refund, obviously after the 14 days given by microsoft. Can someone please explain why 14 days? some children are spending thousands of pounds before
    theire parents realise, surely anything more than £50 should be given an annual refund policy as it would from highstreet shops or am I wrong to think this way?

    Thanks for taking the time to add useful information for anyone that has this problem in the future.

    Regards,

    Jason
  6. ShahanaB Win User

    Son spent money on Roblox

    Even my son spent Indian Currency Rs.60,000, and how do i get my refund, he spent all my money using cards. now how do i get my refund back. Anyone please help me.
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