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Spanish Boy Racks Up €100K Bill, Google Cancels The Charge

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Re: Spanish Boy Racks Up €100K Bill, Google Cancels The Charge

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post #35

A spanish source: http://www.elcomercio.com/tendencias/deuda-google-nino-publi... 12 years old kid is punished to stay at home, he decides to be a famous youtuber and somehow he ends up giving his bank account. Fist invoices are low, after one month with a 19k invoice the bank notifies the parents and the parents block all the invoices.

That's not Spanish, that's from Ecuador.

It's still Spanish.

Re: Spanish Boy Racks Up €100K Bill, Google Cancels The Charge

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post #47

How is it okay that so many services don't come with a clear, configurable, default-low cost accrual cap? Heck, Comcast is rolling out unlimited* potential liability if you go over without pre-purchasing a $50 insurance policy. * Given bandwidth constraints, maybe it's only $6500/mo or so. Still.

Comcast is rolling out unlimited potential liability

No, that's not true. The maximum additional liability is $200.

From the article linked to in the recent discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12663935

The third time it's exceeded within a 12 month period, however, the "courtesy months" go away and users will be charged $10 for an additional 50GB of data, which will continue happening to a limit of $200 per month. If you want unlimited data access, you can buy it up front, for an additional $50 per month over your current internet bill.

Re: Spanish Boy Racks Up €100K Bill, Google Cancels The Charge

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post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. I read the title as "spanish boy counterfeits a 100,000 Euro bill and tries to pay Google with it".

Where are you from that "racks up" means "counterfeits" and not "accumulates"?

The original title was "Spanish boy Makes 100,000 Euro bill".

Re: Spanish Boy Racks Up €100K Bill, Google Cancels The Charge

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post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If my experience at a nonprofit is a guide they'll actually call endless meetings to talk about the AdWords and then never get around to using them.

Meaning, the nonprofit will call for meeting with adwords and never actually use them?

No, they'll call meetings internally to discuss how to use the AdWords and never decide anything or act on it.
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