A 5-year-old had a wheelie good online shopping spree last week.
Jessica Nunes thought her daughter, Lila, was playing games on her phone during a car trip March 27 — when she was actually ordering a nice selection of children’s dirt bikes and women’s footwear from Amazon.
The Massachusetts mom admitted she didn’t realize her daughter was making the purchases, until she got an alert at 2 a.m. informing her an Amazon order had been shipped.
Worried her account had been hacked, Nunes discovered she had $3,992 in charges to her credit card.
Her daughter hit the online store hard, ordering 10 children’s dirt bikes and a kid’s two-seater ride-on Jeep, which came to $3,179. To top it off, she spent $743 on 10 pairs of white cowgirl boots in women’s size 7.
“Ironically, that’s my shoe size,” Nunes, who also has a 2-year-old son, told Today.
Lila had purchased the bikes from two different sellers, with Nunes successfully canceling one order when the retailer sent her an email to confirm.
She said she was also able to cancel the order for the boots.
Unfortunately, she was too late to cancel the second order of bikes, with the seller having already shipped five of them. The ride-on Jeep arrived March 31.
Fortunately for Nunes, the companies agreed to refund her for the items, calling the splurge a “teachable moment” for her young daughter.
Lila’s plan had been simple: “She said, ‘I just wanted it, and I got it,'” recalled Nunes.
“There was an older boy with a bike, and Lila was devastated because she was too young to ride it,” Nunes explained. “I don’t know how she found this exact item [on Amazon].”
It’s not the first time the precocious 5-year-old has done a bit of online shopping. Nunes said she was surprised last Christmas when lip glosses were delivered from Amazon.
Nunes said she’s had a chat with her daughter about working towards acquiring a bike one day.
“I did tell her that maybe if she acts right, she behaves and she does some chores around the house that we can get her a bike that’s more geared towards her age range,” Nunes said. “A little slower, maybe.”
Lila is not alone. Romy Croquet Mars — the 16-year-old daughter of director Sofia Coppola and her husband, Phoenix lead singer Thomas Mars — last month claimed she was grounded for trying to charter a helicopter from New York to Maryland on her dad’s credit card.