A man is being chased by debt collectors after his son bought a £19,000 monster truck.
Mohammad Faraji accidentally left his laptop logged on and his son Ario successfully bid for the vehicle on eBay. He is now worried about potentially having to pay off a large debt after PayPal refused to cancel the transaction.
Mohammad said: “It’s been going on since March and I’m just getting more stressed, it’s awful. I know it’s my fault that I hadn’t checked my laptop and that it had saved the password – my son is only little but he’s clever for his age and good with computers.
“He loves monster trucks, and the 29th of March is his birthday, on the 28th he said he wanted a truck, but I never guessed he wanted to buy a real monster truck for himself.”
Mr Faraji, 45, from Wallsend, North Tyneside, received a bill for a truck that it appeared Ario has successfully bid for.
He attempted to explain that the purchase had been accidental, but the seller didn’t want to cancel the sale and told him he could come and collect the truck.
He said: ‘It’s unbelievable that PayPal would pay it without sending any notification or contacting me to find out if I wanted to pay that amount of money.’
PayPal insist the father should work with eBay or the seller to resolve the problem, but he argues it’s an issue with the payment system.
