Tot Takes a Punt

Stanmore Bay three-year-old Pipi Quinlan purchased a full-size excavating digger on auction site TradeMe for $20,000 while the rest of his family slept. “The first I knew of it was when I came down and opened up the computer,” Pipi’s mother, Sarah, told the Rodney Times. “I saw an email from TradeMe saying I had won an auction and another from the seller saying something like ‘I think you’ll love this digger’.” She added that she had made auction bids on several toy sets and assumed she had bought a toy digger. “It wasn’t until I went back and reread the emails that I saw $20,000 – and got the shock of my life.” TradeMe reimbursed the seller’s costs for the auction and the Kobelco digger was relisted. The computer is now kept out of Pipi’s reach.