Fuck You Habbo
On October 26th I topped up my daughter’s cell phone – $60 – in order to stop the rate from being 40¢ a minute and make it 25¢ a minute. I told her to carry over that money into the next month, and the next 10 years for Christ’s sake, since I’m usually only topping it up $10 a month. As far as I’m concerned the cell phone is only for emergency use, since she has her own phone number on a land line at home (that I also pay for).
Well, wouldn’t you know that, within two weeks, all of a sudden that $60 credit was gone. Her balance was down to $0. Zero fucking dollars in two weeks. And you know what from? It was the habbohotel.com.
What is the habbo hotel you ask? It’s basically a chat room with these little cartoon avatars. You can buy clothes and things for your avatars to wear and these clothes and things cost $3 each.
How do you buy them? Well you send a text message to your cellphone (or regular phone) and it takes the $3 off your cell phone balance. That $60 she had on her phone had $27 taken off from habbo hotel.
I had the discussion with her a long time ago about not buying things on habbo hotel. I trusted her not to do anything like that again because I knew she had run up hundreds of dollars at her dad’s place, and even over $60 here doing just that. I trusted her with $60 on her cell phone and this is what happened.
So tonight it seemed she even tried using my cell phone number to buy stuff. I got me a little ol’ text message telling me what to do to buy something. Not only one text message but 5 in total.
That prompted action on my part. I came home and blocked her internet access to habbo hotel. No more habbo hotel my daughter, you abused my trust in you. Then I called the cellphone provider and got text messages and the internet blocked from her cell phone. I know kids her age who don’t even have a stinking cell phone. Some don’t even have a home phone for crying out loud.
This habbo hotel is aimed at kids. It’s a chat room for kids. And there’s a disclaimer on the site that says, “don’t buy any of this without permission”. Oh what a safe guard for them, as if any of the kids are asking permission to do this crap.
And I have one more thing to say. If anything, a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g, even remotely like this “costing ze muzzer lotz und lotz of money” happens even once more, that girl will no longer have internet access either. Fuck that. I probably would have been killed for that shit. Or at least beaten.
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Habbo is a Scam Site, Even Habbo LAG ALSO NEVER FIX IT! Now Bronoze coins change into 2c.everything CHARGE 1C. I WANT FUCK WITH HABBO
You parents better watch your mouth, don’t spell any of the dirty words anymore. I guss this is why your kids never behave…imagine living with parents like this. and don’t blame on habbo. maybe your kids won’t die on the street thanks to habbo which as least make yours kids staying in avoid troubles, as I can see imcompetent parents like you wouldn’t lead your kids to any better life then playing habbo.
ss, there’s always an idiot like you to talk about something you know nothing about. “Imagine living with parents like this” – parents like what? Parents who buy their kids what they’d like? Parents who give their kids computers and internet access because they don’t live in the 60s? Parents who write exactly what they think instead of being anal retentive?
I think I stopped believing that swearing was a ‘bad, bad, thing’ done by ‘bad, bad, people’ when I got out of my teens. I’m not overly concerned about what your type thinks of swearing. And along those lines, what I write on my blog has nothing to do with parenting skills, you moron. Writing, swearing, and parenting – you won’t find them grouped together in the Thesaurus. Grow up (and learn to spell at least).
habbo is fucked up i jus made n account n then they tell me my passwords wrong im very pissed at this website if i wasnt craving for drama i wouldve said fuck it. i want tht site destroyed it is a fucked up system those ppl r freakinq crass
Dont blame habbo, its YOUR fault !. its up to you and your daughter if you want to buy credits or not, its your fault for not checking up on her and making sure she isnt buying credits, and btw, YOU DONT BUY HABBO CLOTHES !
Callum, I will blame Habbo since they have it set up that kids can just call and expense things to their parents accounts. They do it purposely so that kids who don’t understand the difference will be able to do this. And you’ll have to pardon me all to hell for not knowing exactly what I was being charged for, I don’t play with that shit myself, obviously you know all about it.
I don’t get why you didn’t just block her from the game the first time you did it. Especially if she ran up 100′s of dollars, you should have just taken action then and blocked her from the game or texting them.
Well Ehlex, I did try to block her from the game – see how easy that is. I put parental controls on her computer and blocked that website. Unfortunately, they have more than one website, so she ended going in anyway. After that she figured out how to turn off the parental controls. It was like dealing with an enemy – didn’t matter what I did so that it wouldn’t cost me money, she’d find a way to get to where she wanted to be. It ended up being a total block from computer usage, but she still had time to get on before I got home from work.
What’s the username? If it’s “Kassieanna” then I know her. So what is it?
I’m 14 and I live in Florida.
My son is called sam i gave my son $240 pound’s on habbo and he said “Ill will take good care”. Next day i said “did you buy enything from the money i gave you?” He said i spent it all” “why”
WHat on i said he said “Habbo coins i bought 2000c I am rich! I dicided to ban him of the internet 2weeks later i dicided to start trusting him again so i undonn it! next day i went in my wollet were’s my credit card’s urm… he said i got all the money to buy habbo credits ! bye this time i was so annoyed i sent him to his room broke his xbox and ps3 then started to ban him of the internet finnaly he lisend.
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Damn right. Habbo hotel is a good idea in general, but actually it’s just one big fucking scam. “Kids, special offer: Buy coins for 1000$ and we will give you more virutal useless furni which you can’t use for anything.”
That’s one of the most common messages that kids recieve on Habbo. For fuck’s sake, i heard about people who cried when they couldn’t get more “furni”.
I completely agree with your post. Good job.