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Were these gifts shoplifted? Or just really old?

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PamFritters · 09/01/2024 17:46

I have posted before about my SIL and her over gifting at Xmas and birthdays. It’s often clothes, very rarely anything I would wear. I usually take to a charity shop but this year I decided to be a bit more frugal and return them for credit. All had price tags on, various shops but today I took the Next and M&S ones in as I was near.

All of it scanned and came up. But all of it came up as ‘not sold/no sales record’. Oh and all the Next ones were coming up as £3. The lady in Next said she had worked there for 4 years and didn’t recognise any of the items. Basically they are either a) nicked or b) older than the system.

I think this might finally be the push I need to tell her to stop giving me clothes I don’t want, because she’s either stolen them or had hanging around with tags on in her wardrobe for five years. I’ve spent the last 20 years being subtle and it clearly doesn’t work.

I’m not being unreasonable to think these are weird gifts, right?

At the risk of being completely outing, our husbands are ID twins and she gives DH clothes that are HUGE. He wears size S and she gives him t shirts in XXL for example. It’s all so weird. Why does she do it? Any guesses welcome.

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GailTheFish · 09/01/2024 17:49

If they’re not recognised in store it seems unlikely that they’ve been shoplifted. Could be charity shop or eBay/Vinted sales perhaps.

mrsbyers · 09/01/2024 17:49

I’d guess charity shop purchases

Monkeytapper · 09/01/2024 17:48

Next outlet store or bought them off vinted , old stock that won’t show up as being bought recently

DustyLee123 · 09/01/2024 17:48

Could she have got them from a charity shop?

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