Tales of the expanded audience - Wiis don't accept credit cards through the disc slot

Wow…I am really surprised that someone tried to do this. Of course, all we have is the original poster’s word, but in this instance I do believe it. Follow the link for the full post, but you should be able to get the full impact from the snippet below.

Anywho, the Mom asks me what VC is, and I told her. I told her that all she needed to do was put in her credit card when prompted on the Shop Channel, and get the amount of points she wanted. I also told her what WiiSpeak is, and how to connect her Wii to the internet via an ethernet connection.