arrggh! First world problem I know
Have an 8 yo football mad son, but we're not a footballing family really so don't know how it works
I've bought my son football kits in the past, only 1 a year as they're so expensive, but they've been for high profile teams eg Man United, PSG, England etc so never had any difficulty.
This year, for this birthday (May) he wanted the local league 2 team t-shirt. I couldn't get one at the time, it didn't surprise me that I couldn't get one as end of season, so I agreed to get him one of the new season ones when they came out, which I guessed to be in July. Fast forward to last week and I see they are in stock, we look online, he likes the new colours. So far so good. For some reason I don't pay for delivery or even arrange click and collect I think ooh I have this friday off work so we'll go up to the shop (a few miles away) and choose one together.
Bad move. All kids shirts sold out. Apparently within days.
To add insult to injury when coming out the shop we spot a class mate. I tell the mum the situation, she says 'oh I did click and collect so we should be ok'. 2 mins later the son walks out with his shirt and grins at my son and he has sobbed all the way home.
It really did not occur to me that the boys shirts would sell out before the season even began. I said to the woman in the shop 'when will you get more in stock' and she said 'not sure we will'. Is this really true that you can't get them after the initial rush. I know ebay will be a possibility I suppose. The website doesn't have a 'email me when back in stock' function so i suppose I will have to check back every day for the forseeable.
I know it's not a big deal in the great scheme of things but I promised him. And his classmate has one and he hasn't.
So can someone reassure me that yes, of course there will be more in stock at some point. Or have other ideas. Or should I face the fact that I've lost my chance until july next summer.