Is this rude?

[SmellyBeard]

My boss gave me a baby monitor when I had my baby 9 months ago. It's just given up for no apparent reason. Pressing the reset button hasn't done anything.

So, would it be rude to ask her if she has the receipt so I can return it? One part of me says yes as it was a gift, and the other says she probably wouldn't care as she's a very practical person.

Thoughts?

If it lacked in after a month maybe, but not after 9. Doubt she'd still have the receipt. They aren't particularly expensive are they? I'd just get another one.

I wouldn't find this rude at all - it will show her that you've actually used the gift instead of throwing it in a cupboard somewhere. I'll be surprised if she still has the receipt though. Good luck

I’d just buy another one!
After a week or 2, perhaps I’d ask (I know I really wouldn’t!) but after nearly a year of it in use I’d just buy a new one.

No way will she still have the receipt for something she got you as a gift that long ago.

Just get another, or contact the manufacturer with the serial number and ask them to deal with it.

I wouldn’t find it rude though, just odd. However I’m not someone who ever keeps receipts, whether it’s a gift for someone else or something I’ve bought myself. So if someone asked me for a receipt of something I’d bought, I wouldn’t have it.

Christ, that receipt would be a distant memory if I'd bought it

I thought she might have it as she tends to order things over the internet, so might have an email as proof of purchase. I don't feel entirely comfortable asking though so I probably won't.

I'm a bit gutted as it's one which works through thick stone walls which is useful when we go to stay with my DP's mum as she lives in an ancient house. To replace it costs nearly €200.

Can anyone recommend a good monitor?

I doubt that she will still have the receipt, and if you tell her that the monitor has failed, she will possibly feel obliged to buy you a replacement. So, I wouldn't tell her.

Now you've said how much / how fancy a monitor it is - would it be worth contacting the company that make them, saying it was given you as a gift on X date, so you don't have the receipt, but is there anything they can do ?

I think i would try and sound her out as to where she bought it, as you say, if it were online, then i think i would tell her it's not working and could you have the details to submit a complaint. I don't think I'd come right out and ask for the receipt, in case she hasn't got it and feels bad.