Parents confiscated gadgets and can't find them!

[grossaffe]

I'm not taking sides here but the parents are equally at fault for losing possession or selling off the kids valuables. No one here is a winner.

If you choose to believe his story.

 

[RemixDeluxe]

If you choose to believe his story.

It's not like he has anything to gain by lying. What would he expect us to do, everyone pitch in and get him his stuff back or rally together and beat up the parents?

 

[Veho]

When I was a kid I was saving money for a VGA card and monitor.
Back in the day I had a PC with a Hercules monochrome video card. That shit didn't run most games.
So I had saved up to the moment $350 (in ~1990, so it's like $650 in today dollars, computer parts were expensive). I wanted to play Monkey Island 2, Doom and all the new shit.
Well, one day my parents told me they had to borrow my savings. Almost 25 years ago. Never returned it. A mere $350 that for a kid is a lot, but for them just a couple of bucks. Damn assholes.
Lesson learned: don't blindly trust family, they are backstabbers. And also, regret much?

What did they spend it on?

 

[grossaffe]

It's not like he has anything to gain by lying. What would he expect us to do, everyone pitch in and get him his stuff back or rally together and beat up the parents?

Some people just need validation. Some live with a distorted sense of reality.

What did they spend it on?

Probably mortgage and food. Selfish assholes.

 

[Jayro]

Top shelf of their closet, and why the fuck do they lock their room? Are they drug dealers?

 

[sarkwalvein]

What did they spend it on?

I think they spent it in buying some everyday shit in the supermarket, they just didn't want to go to an ATM at that time (back in the day you had to pay cash in the supermarket). There were not into money problems at all, if that is the question.
Afterwards they just didn't care to return it, they considered it was theirs from the beginning, because following their logic at the time "you are a kid, the money you have probably we gave it to you, if you didn't spend your allowance and saved it instead, well... that is still our money". Still not a way to develop trust, TBH.

 

[Deleted member 408979]

Why is everyone convinced the parents are such scumbags that they would sell off their own children's possessions

Is this speaking from personal experience or just a theory?

It aint ever happened to me, its happened to some friends.

 

[Taffy]

Do you clean around the house at all? I'm 14 and I have to dustmop (it's like sweeping...with a duster). By doing this I have come across birthday presents, my laptop, and my computer power cables (they take those when I do dumb stuff, but I like to bypass with a spare cable ).

You may get lucky and find them!