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Apple refunds 8-year-old girl’s $6,000 bill for in-app purchases

“A dad has won back £4,000 from Apple after his eight-year-old daughter ran up the bill on ‘free’ iPad games,” Alex West reports for The Sun.

“Lee Neale, 43, faced selling his car and two motorbikes when Lily blew cash on App Store favourites Campus Life, My Horse, Hay Day and Smurfs’ Village,” West reports. “Aerospace designer Lee only found out when his bank froze his account. He had been working away and missed emails alerting him to the buys.”

West reports, “Apple refused to pay Lee at first, saying ‘all purchases made on the iTunes Store are final.’ But the firm later relented and agreed to a refund. Lee, of Peasedown St John, Somerset, said: ‘Apple called me to say they will be refunding the money I have lost and apologised for closing my case so early.'”

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