To ask if a google home is a rubbish present?

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Find it very difficult to buy db and girlfriend a present. Both high earners and quite choosy. Came up the idea of buying them a google home as a christmas present. Thought they might use it to play music. They thanked me for it when we exchanged presents but my db girlfriend just popped around to my house and said sorry but my db doesn't want it. Felt a bit silly like it was a naff present. Thought pls.

No idea what it is. Will google.

I think it is a great present for someone who wants one, and a waste of money for someone who doesn't.

Hope you kept the receipt.

A speaker?

Well if they already have a stereo then it's useless isn't it.

It's good but it depends on the 'type' you are.

In our house we use Apple TV, iPhones, iPads, MBPs (except for DH who keeps his in a drawer and calls it unrepeatable names) so a google / android product would be fairly unusable or at least annoying to use. This could be the case.

They may already have similar products like a Firestick or Dot or Echo (from Amazon) and so the Google Home would be redundant.

It depends on the relationship you have with them. This could either be a big insult or on the other hand, you are close enough that they feel they can be honest rather than keep a present they don't want in its box in a drawer somewhere.

I think it's a nice gift, but either way, don't buy him Christmas presents ever again. What a prick giving it back.

Either way their response was rude!

Really it’s the type of present I would get if I knew someone wanted it.

I bloody love them.

We have one in every room of the house.

It is so much more than a speaker. However, it is something that we have made the choice to own and we use it to control our lights, its all our radios, play music, alarm clock, kitchen timer, reminders, and other shit. I can see that if it doesn't appeal to you and you aren't prepared to get into the ecosystem then it might not be right for you.

However to return it like that is a dick move. If you really don't want it then sell the bloody thing. Don't bring it back like that.

Keep it for yourself though. You'll wonder how you managed without it

They should have just put it on ebay.

Did they actually give it back, or just slag it off?

At least with the former you can actually find it a home with someone who's going to use it rather than IT being shoved in a drawer or them using it as a very expensive paperweight.

*it, not IT.

It's a speaker, not a psycho clown.

I think it is a great present for someone who wants one, and a waste of money for someone who doesn't.
Agree with this.

Do they already have an Echo maybe? Or want one instead? I got one for Christmas, so if I got a google home now I'd try to politely ask if it could be exchanged for an echo of the same price as they can be linked together.

Rude! We have Amazon dots in our house, but if I'd been given one and had no use for it I'd sell it on and buy something else. I wouldn't dream of giving it back.

Closer to psycho clown than a simple speaker though surely

I wouldn't have one. It could kill you while you sleep!

Oh meant to say it was still rude of them to return it.

In our house we use Apple TV, iPhones, iPads, MBPs (except for DH who keeps his in a drawer and calls it unrepeatable names) so a google / android product would be fairly unusable or at least annoying to use. This could be the case.

I have to say that we are the same. Both of us have iPads, iPhones and Mac computers (I have a laptop, he has a desktop). The google home integrates well. I can cast to is from iPlayer and podcast apps. There is a google assistant app for the iPhone to set it up and do other stuff with.