Jimu news reporter Ding Peng
Recently, Ms. Duan of Zhumadian in Henan province found that her 10-year-old son wanted to buy snacks, and the owner of the stationery store recommended him to spend nearly 10,000 yuan to buy "Ultraman cards".
On the local leadership message board of the People's Network, a large number of parents also reported that their children had problems caused by the purchase of Ultraman cards, including excessive addiction to buying Ultraman cards to steal family money and violent tendencies.
The lawyer said that if the guardian does not approve and the child's purchase is invalid, the merchant needs to refund.
Experts said that children use their parents' money to tip game anchors, buy game equipment, buy Ultraman cards, the essence is the same, in order to solve this problem from the root, that is, parents must perform guardianship and guidance duties.
The list price of ultraman cards in an online mall is as high as 1499 yuan
A 10-year-old boy buys an Ultraman card for $9,800
Recently, Ms. Duan of Zhumadian in Henan found that the money prepared for the elderly was suddenly less than 9800 yuan, and asked her son to know that he took this money to buy ultraman cards. In Ms. Duan's impression, the child's pocket money in the past year was less than 100 yuan, and she did not expect to spend nearly 10,000 yuan to buy cards. The child told her that he had wanted to buy food, but the stationery shop owner said, "What do you want to buy food for?" It is better to buy cards, which can also be sold for money. So the child bought a 9800 yuan card.
However, Ms. Duan negotiated with the owner of the stationery store, but the owner of the stationery shop said that this is very normal, that the parents themselves cannot control the children, and disputes and disputes have arisen between the two sides. At present, the administrative law enforcement department has intervened.
In this regard, some netizens said: "Parents have responsibility, but this business is also too careless, a minor child spends hundreds of thousands of yuan he also dares to sell." Some netizens also said: "The boss may also have problems inducing minors to consume." ”
The reporter learned that the Ultraman card is to print an Ultraman photo on the card size of the playing card, plus the corresponding combat power value, and made into various styles and levels. There is nothing special in the eyes of adults, but many children cherish the rare cards in it. The "card socialization" formed by collecting cards and changing cards also often appears in children's circles. The price of the card is a few yuan, and a shopping mall shows that the most expensive card gift box is priced at 1499 yuan.
Mr. Zhao of Shanghai shows his son's Ultraman card
On February 9, Mr. Zhao of Shanghai told Jimu News that his son often bought Ultraman cards at the store in front of the school, which can be bought for more than a dozen yuan. Mr. Zhao said that the card has no specific effect, and his son and classmates will be compared.
Mr. Zhang, who is in Beijing, said his son likes to collect similar cards, in addition to Ultraman cards, there are other types of cards, and the family bought a bunch of them. Cards are divided into various grades, the unit price is not particularly expensive, a dozen dollars can buy several, but buy more costly.
Mr. Yin of Beijing said that his child was not yet young enough to collect cards, but he himself was a veteran player and collected some cards. Mr. Yin introduced that the play of ultraman cards and the water margin cards he played when he was a child is a routine, similar to the blind box card draw, the cards in each bag are different, most of the ordinary cards, the probability of rare cards being drawn is very small, in order to get rare cards, you must buy more cards, so the more money you need to spend.
Minors addicted to cards worry parents
The reporter searched for ultraman cards on the local leadership message board of the People's Network and found that the problems caused by it were "card gambling", "inducing students to consume", "violent tendencies" and so on.
In October 2021, the mother of a 10-year-old child in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province, reported that her child was in the fourth grade, because he was addicted to buying Ultraman cards, he stole about 10,000 yuan from his family, most of which was used to buy cards at stationery stores. The price of ultraman cards ranges from 1 yuan, 2 yuan, 10 yuan, and the expensive ones are hundreds of yuan. The mother said that when she first found out that her children were addicted to buying Ultraman cards, she spent more than a thousand yuan at the time, thinking that the children were still young, so she bought a lesson and controlled the use of pocket money after criticizing and educating the children. I didn't expect that the child would hide from her family and steal tens of thousands of yuan to buy a card, and by the time she found out, it was too late. She did not know whether this kind of thing happened, whether there was any misconduct in the stationery store, and hoped that the relevant departments could control it.
In September 2021, a parent in Tianjin Binhai District reflected on the local leader's message board that in the past six months, primary school boys have been obsessed with Ultraman cards, and on occasions such as school recess, encounters downstairs in the community, and meetings with friends, they are discussing Ultraman cards or exchanging and exchanging cards, and spending more time enjoying the treasured cards after returning home, and spending more to show off and compare between peers.
In response to the situation reflected by the above two parents, the government's response is that the school strengthens the education guidance and encourages students to carry out meaningful activities.
Merchants display rare card species on the online sales platform
Lawyer: Purchases that are not approved by the guardian will require a refund
Chai Xin, a lawyer at Beijing Dacheng (Wuhan) Law Firm, said that Ms. Duan's child is only 10 years old, belongs to the person with limited capacity for civil conduct, and her age and intelligence cannot accurately understand the actual value of the Ultraman card, and her behavior is not purely profitable. Therefore, if it buys a small amount, the behavior is valid; a large purchase needs to be approved by the parents or posthumously recognized before it is effective, and 9800 yuan is obviously a large and large amount.
Lawyer Chai Xin also said that from the legal level, parents are not responsible, and businesses are not responsible. For merchants, because Ultraman cards are not like tobacco and alcohol, there is no obligation to prohibit the sale to minors. Even if the merchant has induced consumption, as long as the guardian does not recognize, the child's behavior is invalid. Parents can mediate consumer disputes through the Market Supervision Administration, and if mediation fails, they can only sue to the court, and the court will make a judgment based on the facts.
Sun Donghua, a lawyer at Hebei Yanfu Law Firm, also said that in Ms. Duan's case, a 10-year-old child purchased an Ultraman card of 9800 yuan, and the purchase behavior was obviously inappropriate for his age. Therefore, if his guardian does not approve, the merchant should return the money to the child. If there is evidence that the owner of the store has induced consumption of the child, he knows that the child is a minor and still uses this method to facilitate his transaction, and the relevant money should be refunded.
Experts: Parents must fulfill their guardianship and guidance responsibilities
On February 9, Xu Xuejun, a professor at Hubei University, a doctoral supervisor, and the former director of the Psychological Counseling Research Center of Hubei University, told Jimu News that this is a social problem, both the improper operation of bad businesses and the improper education of parents. Minors' addiction to Ultraman cards also has psychological factors, which require families, schools, and society to work together and work together.
Xiong Bingqi, president of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, said that the problem is mainly the responsibility of parents. Parents must fulfill the guardianship and guidance responsibilities, clearly tell their children what can be bought and what cannot be bought, and cultivate children's consumption awareness and consumption concepts. In addition, parents are more to strengthen the companionship of their children. For example, when a child goes shopping outside, parents should cultivate some of his financial awareness and tell their children how to identify these goods. With such supervision and guidance, children will form a healthy consumption awareness and consumption habits, and they can avoid the problem of children spending money and spending a lot of money.
Xiong Bingqi said that before, some children used their parents' money to tip game anchors and buy game equipment online, and now they use their parents' money to buy Ultraman cards because the root cause problems have not been solved. The root problem is that parents have to perform guardianship duties, if they do not perform guardianship duties, or even give their own bank account numbers to their children to use, if there is a problem, blame the external environment, and finally can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause.
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