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Note to parents: if you’d like your tweens not to run up extraordinary bills on the shared credit card when they head out to the mall, start by passing on Barbie’s Fashion Fever Shopping Boutique playset. This innocent looking package allows youngsters to shop ’til they drop with fake plastic, but rather than actually hitting a credit limit and getting rejected, the card delivers the wrong message by simply allowing kids to spend as much dough as they’d like without any negative consequences. Take a look at the commercial after the jump.

[Via Gearlog]

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