Jack, 3, buys car online

Monday 25th September 2006, 12:00PM BST.

Jack Neal’s parents discovered his successful bid only when they received a congratulations message from the website about the Barbie pink Nissan Figaro.

Rachel Neal, 36, said: “We couldn’t understand what was happening. So we checked and saw it was a Barbie pink car which we’d bought for £8,999. We flew into a panic.”

Mrs Neal, of Sleaford, Lincolnshire, said she thought she had left her ebay password in her computer.

The seller of the soft-top second-hand car said today he was “amused” by the bid.

Paul Jones, co-director of Worcester Road Motors, Stourport-on-Severn, said: “I cancelled the bid and re-advertised the car.”

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