Then I got a very, very angry knock on the door at about 7am about a week later when the bank statement came through.
Not sure what lessons I learned there (aside from the obvious) about software design, micro-/in-game economies, or children using your services, to be honest. On the one hand, these sorts of services need to make money. I get that. But it's also super enticing and unreasonably easy for kids to do this, and I'd imagine it happens a lot more than what makes the news.
Not sure what the solution is aside from a very extensive and rich set of parental controls that are mandatory. Not sure if Roblox has that, and if so, I would imagine this kid did what I did when my parents added pins on certain channels - I looked over their shoulder!
Kids seem to be very crafty about bypassing security controls. The OG bad actors, if you will.