It is my DS's 8th birthday in 3 days. Over the last few days a number of parcels have arrived from amazon addressed to him. It is normal in our family for relatives to send parcels like this unwrapped so as I had some spare time today I open all the parcels to wrap the gifts in proper birthday paper (mentioning this only in case you think this is nosey of me).
So, among various other items which were on his wishlist was one item which really wasn't. These VR 3D goggles.
Now my stb-8yo doesn't have a smartphone and won't be getting one for at least 3 or 4 years, and certainly won't be borrowing mine for gaming purposes. Also it's for an adult size head and I doubt it would fit him. So the gift is basically useless - I could possibly put it in the attic for until he is 12 but it will probably be obsolete by then.
To compound all this the gift is anonymous - there's no delivery slip and nothing to say who it is from. First step was to text/email/call various relatives who might have sent a gift, but all denied knowledge. I phoned amazon in case it was delivered to us by mistake - perhaps someone expecting some VR goggles has received an exciting Lego Nexo Knights play set that they have no use for - but that just made it all more mysterious as amazon would only confirm that there was no mistake, the purchaser definitely intended it to be for him, but the purchaser chose anonymity and they can reveal no more.
So am I right that this is seriously weird - both in thinking that this was an appropriate gift for an 8yo and for giving it in a secretive manner?
Any suggestions for further investigation and WIBU to try to get amazon to exchange it for something more appropriate?