Dear Google Marketing (Re: Your kids policy)

Re:Dear Google Marketing (Re: Your kids policy) by dl719 on Sunday September 18, 2011 @04:13PM (#3011135)

Last I checked, (which was http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#... right now), if you provide your credit number and are willing to pay thirty cents, you can re-activate the account. They specifically say that it can be done by parents/legal guardians. Problem solved, 'nuff said.

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Re:Dear Google Marketing (Re: Your kids policy) by ja27 on Sunday September 18, 2011 @08:07PM (#3011666)

We had the same situation. My 11 year old daughter has had a Gmail account for many years and started using a couple years ago. Everything was fine until she tried to accept a Google+ invite and was locked out. Unfortunately this was more than just losing a few silly emails as this is her primary account for lots of school activities.

My wife found the credit card verification link and got the account reinstated. I wish Google+ would make it more clear or just disallow underaged accounts and not invalidate the whole Google account.

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Re:Dear Google Marketing (Re: Your kids policy) by shelfu on Monday September 19, 2011 @07:09PM (#3015590)

DAMNIT!

My daughter had hers disabled, never found the reactivate link. It sucks because she is now 13 and a non-issue, but lost her email address of 3-4 years.

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Re:Dear Google Marketing (Re: Your kids policy) by cloudstack on Sunday September 18, 2011 @06:21PM (#3011450)

I had similar situation. I paid Google but account was still not active. I decided to delete it :/

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