AIBU to give off brand building sets rather than Lego as birthday presents?

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Would anyone be offended for their child to receive “fake” off brand ‘Lego’ for their birthday?

I’ve just picked up some really good priced sets in Lidl that I was planning to gift at some the soo many parties we’ve got coming up (mainly 5th birthdays), but then I wondered if that would be offensive or considered cheap?! Photo of one of the sets for reference (not my photo).

I obviously wouldn’t be offended if my little one was gifted something like this but would anyone else be?

If it looked poor quality or unlikely to be fully compatible, then I'd do the same, either re-gift, sell on ebay or give to a charity shop. It what we did when DS had "big" birthday parties and got lots of presents. He opened the parcels and got so much in one go, he couldn't possibly play with everything, and by the time he'd played with the family and friend presents, he'd forgotten most of the smaller gifts from school friends, so it wasn't hard for them to be re-appropriated and only brought out if he remembered something!

We used to do something similar for big birthday parties. Once my daughter had opened her presents, anything I thought wasn’t great or that she wouldn’t play with would go straight into our “regift” box. I’d stick a Post-it on each item with the name of the child who gave it, just to make sure it didn’t get given back to the same person!

To be honest, there was hardly ever anything from friends that was really good quality, a tenner in a card would have been a better option!