A few years ago my dad celebrated a significant birthday.
I have a large number of siblings and we all contributed an amount (£150 each) towards a substantial gift to mark the event.
If I say what it is I will out myself but it is a collector's item he could take to displays..it was a large amount of money for all of us but my brother who is closest to dad sourced it and we contributed the money.
He had taken the item to various events in the years between and bought himself a second one also.
We found our at the weekend he sold the item we bought him. For a large amount of money - more than it cost us to buy it.
Part of me thinks well it was his to sell after all, but another part of me thinks he could have told us he was thinking of selling it.
Brother no.2 is also into the collectors item and would have bought it off him if he have known.
I know it's probably none of my business but I feel he has been a bit underhand selling our gift to him and not even mentioning it! We only found out because it's quite big and wasn't there when my sister's visited at the weekend!
I feel like asking him why he sold it when we could have kept it in the family but then I'm reluctant to start a row with him.