These fun facts sound a lot like insanity to me. I knew a couple whose kid got a hold of an Ipad that their CC information was saved and could be used without any sort of additional information in it. Their 8 or 10 year old kid managed to rack up thousands of dollars in charges on a game and it wasn't evident to the kid that it was actual real world money he was spending. The couple ended up getting the money back but in your friends' situations these are grownups.
I don't think I have spent 13,000 dollars on gaming in the past 15 years. That's nuts.
Yeah, it is a lot more sad when it's adults doing this shit. I know the guy who owned the bar had a bit of gambling addiction, so, I think his spending was just another form of that without having to hit up the casino. I dunno what drove that other guy to drop 11k and freak his wife the fuck out. Guess I'll just call that poor impulse control?
I can tell you for a fact I've probably not even spent $9000-10000 on video games/consoles/gaming computers combined in the entirety of me being alive. Shit is crazy, man. I remember feeling really bad dropping $10-20 into that game, mostly because I always feel guilty spending money on myself. But, after hearing about those two back then I just couldn't even imagine and still can't to this day. Probably because I'm not certifiably insane.
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