A few details change, for anonymity.
A friend and I exchanged gifts for our sons, aged 4. Gifts were around £30 each.
I gave my present first, before the birthday, sealed in the package.
I received my sons gift 3 days later and one part of the parcel had been opened and parts of the present missing.
Without going into detail, the toy can still be played with, but it's an incomplete set, and the set would obviously be much more interactive with the complete set.
I initially assumed that the box had been tampered with in the shop and my friend picked up this defective box without realising. I didn't want to embarrass her and said thank you for the gift and that my son loved it.
However I went to her house today and I found the exact same missing pieces in her house, and her son playing with them.
I assumed that her son had been given the same set as a gift too, and looked a little closer only to discover that the only part of that set visible was the exact same missing pieces from my sons sets. In other words, my sons set and these pieces make the complete set-as far as I could see.
Am I wrong on being slightly upset and annoyed that it appears my son was given half of a present??
(Obviously I could be wrong and the rest of the set could have been in their house and I didn't notice it. )