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AMAZON ECHO PARENTAL UPGRADE

heart of savino — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 15:19:32 GMT

Amazon echo is getting an upgrade.seems like a little girl asked alexa for a dollhouse

and 4 lbs of cookies for christmas.alexa said o.k. and the dollhouse was delivered the next day with a nice big bill.then came the cookies.

also read a little boy asked alexa for a pizza order which he got.amazon is now stratching

there heads to upgrade the voice command.

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Q4u — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 15:25:01 GMT

Alexa, I would like a red BMW Convertible....

Thanks

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millieshops — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 15:26:16 GMT

Never thought of that problem.

I can see it being a problem with little ones - maybe solvable some how by blocking automatic payments although that would have to be for everyone in the house, and Amazon probably doesn't want to block easy purchases.

I also can't imagine the havoc in a house where 2 people sound very much alike. Lots of times when I call friends and even family with adult or nearly adult children, I can't tell who's answering!

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MezzieStarr — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 15:26:22 GMT

There is already a parental control feature where you need a 4 digit code/pin number for purchases. They must not have set it up. Guess those parents had to learn the hard way, lol.

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JB116 — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 15:36:36 GMT

@MezzieStarr wrote:
There is already a parental control feature where you need a 4 digit code/pin number for purchases. They must not have set it up. Guess those parents had to learn the hard way, lol.

Thankfully my sons who I gave each one for Christmas are older and know not to do something like that.

However the nice thing in this story is that the family is donating the doll house but were keeping the cookies.

So at least someone will benefit from the mistake which I think is very nice of them.

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ChynnaBlue — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 15:46:31 GMT

Scratching their heads? They already have parental controls built in to the Alexa system. The mother of the girl who ordered the dollhouse didn't turn them on. According to this article, she has now.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/6-year-old-brooke-neitzel-orders-dollhouse-cookies-with-amazon-echo-dot-alexa/

No upgrade needed.

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WenGirl42 — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 16:03:46 GMT

@ChynnaBlue wrote:
Scratching their heads? They already have parental controls built in to the Alexa system. The mother of the girl who ordered the dollhouse didn't turn them on. According to this article, she has now.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/6-year-old-brooke-neitzel-orders-dollhouse-cookies-with-amazon-echo-dot-alexa/

No upgrade needed.

^^This. The parental controls exist already, and parents are now seeing just how useful they are

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Kachina624 — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 22:38:52 GMT

Having placed orders with Alexa, I find these stories impossible to believe. When I order, it's dog food that is on my order history and she still occasionally has trouble figuring out what I want. There are so many choices that must be specified that I don't think a child could do it.... if Alexa could understand them. I think they have some parental assistance.

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mima — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 00:17:26 GMT

Even though I have no children at my house, I still have the parental controls on for ordering. I have to say my pin in order to get the order to go through.

I guess I did it so I wouldn't accidently order something myself.

It's just too bad that items get a bad rap because people don't investigate all the options when setting something up.

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Marp — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 00:19:40 GMT

@mima wrote:
Even though I have no children at my house, I still have the parental controls on for ordering. I have to say my pin in order to get the order to go through.

I guess I did it so I wouldn't accidently order something myself.

It's just too bad that items get a bad rap because people don't investigate all the options when setting something up.

LOL @mima, does that sentence indicate that you talk to yourself/think out loud or that you talk in your sleep?

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mima — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 00:40:39 GMT

@Marp wrote:
@mima wrote:
Even though I have no children at my house, I still have the parental controls on for ordering. I have to say my pin in order to get the order to go through.

I guess I did it so I wouldn't accidently order something myself.

It's just too bad that items get a bad rap because people don't investigate all the options when setting something up.
LOL @mima, does that sentence indicate that you talk to yourself/think out loud or that you talk in your sleep?

LOL! OK, that does sound bad. Let me explain. I use the shopping list feature. So I constantly add things on my shopping list. I then go to the store shopping and my list is on my phone. On a rare occasion, if not said correctly she adds my grocery item on my amazon order instead of my shopping list. I really think it only happened once. The order did not go through though. She just said to go to my cart to continue. I got on Amazon and there was my item in my cart. So I investigated and set up a password so that wouldn't happen again!

I didn't think how that sounded! LOL