How do you buy a car by accident? Like, put in a credit card and fully paid for one on Carvana or something?

Very good guess: it was actually exactly that. Carvana shopping for a used car.

He clicked on something and got charged the downpayment of the car to his CC. He got his money back, but I'll never not be surprised by what some older people can manage to do online left to their own devices.

To you and I, it seems impossible. For Larry, it's just Saturday.

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degamad 3 hours ago | parent [-]

It does not seem impossible to anyone who has watched someone use a computer for a few minutes... A bright green button from google pay saying "click here to secure your interest in this car" is easily mistaken to mean "save to my interested list" rather than "place a deposit on this".

We know how hard it is to even find the download button on a website: https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-spot-the-real-download-butt...

	▲	ghurtado 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You're right We like to pretend that we are immune to that, but we've all made similar mistakes. And there's an entire Internet of websites trying to trick us.