{"id":1612,"date":"2009-05-22T12:50:13","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T19:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/05\/mommy-mommy-look-at-my-new-digger\/"},"modified":"2009-05-22T12:58:19","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T19:58:19","slug":"mommy-mommy-look-at-my-new-digger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/22\/mommy-mommy-look-at-my-new-digger\/","title":{"rendered":"Mommy, Mommy – Look at my new digger!"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Age Australia<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Toddler accidentally buys $15,600 digger on auction site<\/h1>\n

Juliet McGhie<\/p>\n

May 21, 2009 – 11:58AM<\/span><\/p>\n

Three-year-old Pipi Quinlan bought a $NZ20,000 ($A15,600) Kobelco digger on auction website TradeMe, prompting immediate damage control by her mum when her purchase was revealed.<\/p>\n

\"digger.jpg\"Most parents are used to little ones sneaking treats into the supermarket trolley, but Pipi’s deal must take the cake.<\/p>\n

Parents Sarah and Reid Quinlan, of Stanmore Bay north of Auckland, were astonished to wake one morning to find Pipi had bought the huge excavating digger in a TradeMe auction.<\/p>\n

The technically savvy kid had woken early and, with the rest of her family sound asleep, decided to play with the computer. With a few clicks of the mouse she entered Internet Explorer and the Trade Me site her mother had already logged on to.<\/p>\n

After a few more timely clicks, she had won the most recent auction listed on the site’s homepage. It was for a Kobelco digger, and she had it for $NZ20,000 – money she didn’t have in her piggy bank.<\/p>\n

“The first I knew about it was when I came down and opened up the computer,” says mum Sarah. “I saw an email from TradeMe saying I had won an auction and another email from the seller saying something like ‘I think you’ll love this digger’.”<\/p>\n

“Well, I had a few Duplo Lego play kits on my watch-list, so just assumed I’d won a digger toy-set,” she says.<\/p>\n

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from The Age Australia Toddler accidentally buys $15,600 digger on auction site Juliet McGhie May 21, 2009 – 11:58AM Three-year-old Pipi Quinlan bought a $NZ20,000 ($A15,600) Kobelco digger on auction website TradeMe, prompting immediate damage control by her mum when her purchase was revealed. Most parents are used to little ones sneaking treats into the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}