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To think my mum bought my son a fake football strip? Pic attached

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ShesNotACowShesAFox · 31/12/2024 17:35

My 7yo son is Ronaldo mad and a AI Nassr kit was on his list to Santa. My mum insisted on buying it as it met her budget. He loved it on Xmas day and was very grateful and I’ve only just washed it yesterday. I washed it at 30 degrees, which is much cooler than I’ve washed his other kits before when he’s played matches. However the blue colouring on the lettering has disappeared completely on the back! Pic attached - AIBU to think she’s bought him a fake kit? He’s always had football kits as presents and this has never happened. I’ve got in touch with her to ask her where it came from to see if I can return it. She said she bought it in a sports shop in France and can’t return it as she bought it in November.

For context, she is SUPER tight. She will come stay with me for a whole week, eating food I’ve paid for (which is fine, she’s a guest) but will then want the 49p for the pint of milk I’ve asked her to get for me when she’s at the shop. She’s very much a penny pincher. For clarity she isn’t poor - she retired at 48 and has been mortgage free since 40 (she’s 65 now).

Even though she knows my strong feelings on counterfeit goods and I didn’t think she’d get her grandson a fake kit but I just have a gut feeling!

To think my mum bought my son a fake football strip? Pic attached
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namechangetheworld · 31/12/2024 22:09

Forgottobuymincepies · 31/12/2024 21:32

My ds is 10 . He has a Ronaldo top given by his db 24... Still washing well after passing down a few dbs and over 10 years old! Your poor ds is wearing a cheap and nasty version!!

Your poor ds is wearing a cheap and nasty version!!

How on earth will he cope?

dixon86 · 31/12/2024 22:18

I've just bought a fake top. Genuine is £80. I paid £17

I'm not paying £80 for a top. It's ridiculous

Forgottobuymincepies · 31/12/2024 22:26

Fine at 7...not fine in secondary school..

arcticpandas · 31/12/2024 22:40

@ShesNotACowShesAFox You ought to have mentioned in the OP that your mum has got form for being stingy and a scammer. This + shirt makes it highly likely she bought it counterfeit knowing very well what she was doing. Sorry OP.

BananaSpanner · 31/12/2024 22:46

ShesNotACowShesAFox · 31/12/2024 20:11

To me it’s just a way of getting something dodgy and on the cheap at the expense of her grandson 🤷‍♀️ this is a woman though who once tricked her son out of money for a hire car. They all went on holiday together and mum organised my brother’s hire care at €100 a day. So he turns up to where they’re staying, mum already collected the hire car, DB didn’t think much of it and handed over the €700. Except it turns out she borrowed the car off a friend for €300 for the week. Effectively making €400 off her son! She sees things like that as good business though. Dont know why I bothered even trusting her!

She sounds awful! Tell me he stood up to her about that please!

Yes, it looks like a knock off shirt.

SwerveCity · 31/12/2024 23:20

I think it’s unfair for posters to say they should be grateful for the shirt. The shirt was on the op’s son’s Christmas list and he is a big fan, it sounds like the op would have purchased the shirt herself but her mum insisted on getting it. To then skimp on a fake low quality one is not right.

weareallqueens · 01/01/2025 01:30

I think anyone charging £60 for a top for a 7 year old is just as much of a scumbag, legal or not. I don't feel bad for them. Just getting that out of the way

This x1000

Who is buying £50-90 shirts for small children when they're going to be obsolete by the end of the season? And does anyone think the official shirt is being manufactured in a more ethical setting than the fake ones?

CakeMakingQueen · 01/01/2025 11:06

dixon86 · 31/12/2024 22:18

I've just bought a fake top. Genuine is £80. I paid £17

I'm not paying £80 for a top. It's ridiculous

The mother knew the price and agreed to buy it for Xmas. Totally different situation.

Whoknew24 · 01/01/2025 11:21

AvidBee · 31/12/2024 21:26

The Al Nassr shirt is £95 on the Adidas website.

£95 for a top he will likely wear for a year and then grow out of. That's insanity.

Also, why are you teaching your son to idolise a rapist?

Wow just wow !!!
can you advise us what court he was convicted in please ? Can you direct us to the evidence please ?

oh you mean the bunny boiler looking to extort a rich man and only ever wanted money. I’d rather teach my boys to idolise Ronaldo and warn them about females like her. Absolutely vile to say such a baseless thing.

ShesNotACowShesAFox · 01/01/2025 11:27

AvidBee · 31/12/2024 21:26

The Al Nassr shirt is £95 on the Adidas website.

£95 for a top he will likely wear for a year and then grow out of. That's insanity.

Also, why are you teaching your son to idolise a rapist?

Funnily enough I haven’t told my 7 year old son about the rape accusation that came to absolutely nothing not so much as a charge, because I’m not a massive fucking weirdo.

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Hoplolly · 01/01/2025 11:31

Couldn't agree more @ShesNotACowShesAFox

SleeplikeababyTonight · 01/01/2025 11:37

If MIL usually spends a certain amount on grandson, and the official strip is his choice, than that is his choice that Mum has allowed. If he wants a larger present for £95 that is great, but he wanted the top. That I'm guessing this made him happier than getting the best value for money. I agree they grow quick, hopefully it would be passed down and still used in some shape or form to make another little boy/girl just a happy. It is a shame the copy hasn't made it past the first wash.

TorroFerney · 01/01/2025 12:13

I'd be really annoyed personally that she'd bought something that was linked to criminal activity which I now had in my house. Assuming that she has done it knowingly, I mean knowingly that it;s fake.

Clearinguptheclutter · 01/01/2025 12:15

Probably fake

although I think the price is ridiculous I have never had an issue with genuine football shirts I have bought

TorroFerney · 01/01/2025 12:21

TheWonderhorse · 31/12/2024 21:23

I think anyone charging £60 for a top for a 7 year old is just as much of a scumbag, legal or not. I don't feel bad for them. Just getting that out of the way.

I also don't think your mother has ripped your son off by buying him a present. My mother has gifted my son plenty of fake kits and we've not once had the lettering come off in a cool wash. Are you sure you washed it at 30? I print t shirts and I don't know of any htv that washes off at just 30 degrees. I would love to be able to take vinyl off that easily!
Either way, I think being offended because you didn't think the gift was good enough quality is a bit entitled. It's a shame though, definitely, and hopefully she'll sort a replacement.

It is not entitled, I can't understand the view that it's ok because they are a rip off. It is not ok if it's fake, it's funding orgnanised crime. It is saying you are ok with money laundering and sex trafficking.

MabelMora · 01/01/2025 12:26

The top is the least of your worries, in the sense that it's done now and she's not going to budge on it. I'd be more bothered about having a cheap pain in the arse like that for a mother! She must have some fantastic redeeming qualities to make you okay with accommodating her for a week at a time, and for your brother to holiday with her etc. I know she's your mother but I don't think my BP could take having to put up with her stingy ways.

TheMasterplan23 · 01/01/2025 12:28

My DS has 60+ football shirts (he collects them) some he wears, some he doesn’t. I’ve got to know how to spot fake ones pretty quickly. He bought one off Vinted a few months ago and I washed it, inside out, on a cool wash with no fabric conditioner (like I do all his kits) and the name and number came straight off.
The replica ones are becoming much more popular because the authentic ones are so expensive. Ds newest Liverpool shirt with name, number and patch was £115 😳

Glasgow1996 · 01/01/2025 12:31

Here is my son’s Al Nassar top from this season 2024/2025 I purchased in November for his birthday in December! Bought form Adidas washed handful of times on 30 degree wash with no fabric conditioner!

attached is some labels and photos of the shirt!

@ShesNotACowShesAFox

To think my mum bought my son a fake football strip? Pic attached
To think my mum bought my son a fake football strip? Pic attached
To think my mum bought my son a fake football strip? Pic attached
To think my mum bought my son a fake football strip? Pic attached
RobertaFirmino · 01/01/2025 12:57

49p for a pint of milk? Is that counterfeit too?

TheWonderhorse · 01/01/2025 16:27

TorroFerney · 01/01/2025 12:21

It is not entitled, I can't understand the view that it's ok because they are a rip off. It is not ok if it's fake, it's funding orgnanised crime. It is saying you are ok with money laundering and sex trafficking.

How is it the same thing as money laundering or sex trafficking? It's providing an affordable alternative for people who don't have a fortune to buy a top with. The only victims of that act are the owners of a football club worth 22 billion quid, and a man who paid a woman off who claimed he raped her.

What I was saying is that the OP can't say that her son has been ripped off, he hasn't been. He's 7. It would be fine if he had a decent quality fake, and there could have been a fault with anything he had been bought. It's how OPs mum deals with it that matters.

ShesNotACowShesAFox · 01/01/2025 16:31

TheWonderhorse · 01/01/2025 16:27

How is it the same thing as money laundering or sex trafficking? It's providing an affordable alternative for people who don't have a fortune to buy a top with. The only victims of that act are the owners of a football club worth 22 billion quid, and a man who paid a woman off who claimed he raped her.

What I was saying is that the OP can't say that her son has been ripped off, he hasn't been. He's 7. It would be fine if he had a decent quality fake, and there could have been a fault with anything he had been bought. It's how OPs mum deals with it that matters.

It funds and enables money laundering and sex trafficking. But hey as long as people have an affordable alternative fuck victims right?

I choose not to buy fakes of any sort, if others do then fine but at least own what your choice enables

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ShesNotACowShesAFox · 01/01/2025 16:32

RobertaFirmino · 01/01/2025 12:57

49p for a pint of milk? Is that counterfeit too?

Haha I’m pretty sure that’s what our little corner shop charges (though I haven’t done a milk run in ages that’s DHs job)

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TomatoSandwiches · 01/01/2025 16:44

I can't believe your mother charges her own son £400 on top of the hire car service, that's not good business that's extortion and vile.

ShesNotACowShesAFox · 01/01/2025 16:58

So the €400 car thing (sorry I dropped that in and ran 🤣) yes it’s mental and caused a huge row and fallout. My mum was all “Oh but we filled it with fuel, and arranged for it to be borrowed, and we put DB on our insurance, we actually were out of pocket in the end!”. She takes penny pinching to another level. Another story - when DD was born, DH and I had spent a fortune moving house from our 1 bed flat, bought all the clobber you need for a new baby and also ring fenced the rest of our savings so I could have longer maternity leave and also get the ball rolling on the eye watering nursery fees. Mum said she’d go halves for a cot and mattress. There was one for sale in my local independent baby shop - £180 for both. I text her and she said “If you buy it I will give you £90 when I visit”. So I bought it She visited DD at 4 weeks old, I funded her food for the week, spent money picking her up at the airport and going back too, and she doesn’t like driving anyone’s car but her own so ferried her about wherever she wanted to go (she met with friends, went to the shops etc). I didn’t ask for petrol - I don’t mind at all, guests get treated that way in my home (only thing I was annoyed about what she didn’t offer to help cook, watch DD, take her for a walk while I tried to rest etc). She had bought me a jumper at the airport and said “Do you wanna keep it or shall I take it back when I go home?”. I said I’d keep it. She also bought a Chinese takeaway one night and an Indian the other for us all (about £60 altogether). Never mentioned the £90 (which I didn’t need but in the circumstances would have been nice to get what I was promised) until the last day. When she said “Well I spent all that money on the takeaways, the jumper was £25, so shall we call it a tenner?”. Never expected or asked for a thing since and if she mentions giving me money for birthday, kids etc I say no

BUT she is usually alright when it comes to presents for the kids. She’s always delivered and bought them thoughtful gifts.

Anyway I’ve been looking into getting second hand but it’s hard to tell what’s real and what’s not - either way it looks like a trip to Sports Direct tomorrow. It also looks like DS got the 23/24 season strip which is absolutely fine IF it were not counterfeit

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ShesNotACowShesAFox · 01/01/2025 17:01

oh and BTW if anyone is wondering how cots and takeaways are so cheap - DD is nearly 12, I’d be lucky to get a takeaway for 3 for £60 these days let alone 2

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