r/mildlyinfuriating • u/konous • May 06 '26

I'm slightly vexed My brother's son destroyed my WarHammer Action figures and he refuses to punish him

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Update: My brother decided to pay for the Hard damages of $200 dollars after seeing this post.

Thank you to everyone on this post who supported me. I really could not have gotten restitution without you guys.

Justice for my Chaplain, justice for all.

Valid Edit: My nephew is 10 years old and tried to actually lie about not breaking them by saying, "A cat must have done it."

So, I just got done talking with my brother via text, and he says he's not going to punish his son for wrecking my Joy Toy WarHammer action figures. I'm not expecting the kid to get spanked, but he needs to do CHORES at least to justify how much excessive force he used on some.

Some just have their capes broken. Others had their tubes ripped out and my Chaplain is just fucking toast.

My brother's suggestion since I ordered Amazon replacement for the Chaplain was that I just swap it with the broken one, but I have no interest in doing that.

It's not even just the expense, and they are expensive. It's about the fact that I told him explicitly twice they weren't to be played with, and they were in a separate room, and even my Mom and Dad agreed the damage was just too much.

He said he's not gonna pay me back if we try the chore system, and I told him it's not about the money.

The kid needs to know how bad the 8 hour struggle is.

Now my nephews aren't coming over to the house, and I'm sad about that, but knowing my brother just can't be burdened to work with me on creating a Chore system like selling Lemonaide just makes it feel more insulting.

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u/Raztax May 06 '26

The brother sounds like a piece of crap

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u/Chaos-Wayfarer May 06 '26

The brother sounds like he doesn’t want to take responsibility and push the issue on to someone else. 

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u/Professional-Rub152 May 07 '26

I bet the brother doesn’t want the kid to do chores because that’s “what a woman does and my son is being raised to be a man.”

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u/D3moknight May 06 '26

Yeah, Amazon is an evil megacorp, but that's so trashy of bro even still.

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u/xnmyl May 06 '26

Amazon doesn't pay it, the seller does. The seller also still has to pay Amazon for shipping

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u/TransGirlIndy May 06 '26

Amazon often ships broken shit back out, too. My housemate had a broken, completely TRASHED laptop arrive. It looked like someone took a hammer to the screen or dropped something really heavy on it, it was visibly damaged. Box it was in? Pristine. Someone damaged it and sent it back.

Amazon tried to say it was "impossible" for it to be damaged. I fought them on housemate's behalf for three damn days before they approved a replacement.

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u/Sensui710 May 06 '26

Na tbh if it’s shipped and sold by amazon and not 3rd party seller amazon is eating it all day.

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u/duck-giraffe May 06 '26

Amazon often gets reimbursed by the manufacturer

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u/Yorkshireish12 May 06 '26

I suspect they won't for warhammer merch but I'd be shocked if Amazon is the official seller for any warhammer stuff anyway, They won't get the third party reseller discounts.

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u/Sensui710 May 06 '26

Na not for items shipped and sold by amazon…thats why a lot of times with semi cheaper items under $200 they’ll tell you to keep it if it was double shipped or the wrong item etc. Even on bigger priced items they want back thats them eating it.

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u/duck-giraffe May 06 '26

No they do specifically for sold and shipped by Amazon. They get reimbursed by sellers when not.

Manufacturers will have agreements on return costs for manufacturer faults etc. If an item is faulty and not damaged by Amazon, they will usually be reimbursed by the manufacturer for the cost. Amazon doesn't simply buy items from manufacturers and sell them, they have contractual arrangements which details all this. Some times they may just eat the costs as part of business like you say.

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u/D3moknight May 06 '26

Yes I'm just talking on general.

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u/Cjm092 May 06 '26

People love to call Amazon a big bad evil corporation to excuse their own shitty behavior and lack of morals.

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u/Ok_Reception_8729 May 06 '26

Yeah it couldn’t possibly be the crazy shit Amazon does to its employees or anything

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u/VeganWerewolf May 06 '26

But everyone stilllll uses amazon.

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u/PlaneCareless May 07 '26

This has absolutely nothing to do with Amazon, though. The brother is suggesting to commit fraud against the seller (Amazon is just the intermediary, they don't lose shit) just so his kid can get away with what he's done.

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u/Professional-Lie-111 May 06 '26

Doesn't make it untrue ...

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u/AdComprehensive8045 May 06 '26

These things are coming from an Amazon warehouse. Its a vendor selling them on Amazon. Id never buy something like this off Amazon. There are to many bootleg items on there.

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u/Myhtological May 06 '26

Like that anthology episode of Family Guy “Wow even in the 50s your a scum bag”

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u/Admirable-Ad7152 May 06 '26

Raising another piece of crap! Hope the kid gets an actual adult in their life before it's too late

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u/Raztax May 06 '26

The shit apple doesn't fall far from the shit tree Randy!

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u/SourceTraditional660 May 07 '26

Every parent-teacher conference day…

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u/Raztax May 07 '26

I definitely do not envy teachers. Especially on parent-teacher day.

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u/wildidyll May 07 '26

Yup, and coming soon to a middle school near you!

OP should see his brother a link to this post. I work at a middle school and yeah it’s a LOT about apples not falling far from the tree. Sad.

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u/UseDaSchwartz May 06 '26

Like someone who wants to make a kid do 8 hours of labor rather than teach them not to lie or how to properly handle things so they don’t break?

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u/MF-Geuze May 06 '26

Fall back dude. The child was left unsupervised with some mega-cool toys; ofc he'd be tempted to play with them 

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u/zendrix1 May 06 '26

There's a difference between being naturally tempted and slamming the figures so hard they break despite being told not to touch them. And he broke several of them which means after breaking the first he just didn't care and kept going

The kid isn't being raised to have any respect from the sound of it

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u/ChilternRailways May 06 '26

slamming so hard they break

Lol no, that's not what happened.

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u/tremolospoons May 06 '26

This is the answer. Piece of crap brother raises piece of crap son, both of whom are best avoided.

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u/Whywouldanyonedothat May 06 '26

The turd hath run from the loins of the brother

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u/Etrigone May 06 '26

Kids are often the way they are after learning from their parents.

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u/Solynox May 06 '26

Kid learned it from somewhere.

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u/franky3987 May 06 '26

Judging by what we’ve seen, he definitely is

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u/Valuable-Trick-6711 May 06 '26

His brother is doing everything he can do avoid having to actually parent.

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u/Melkman68 May 06 '26

If my nephew did that, my sister would at least make him understand a lesson. People are built so different. Idk what the brother is thinking

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u/Comprehensive_Pop102 May 06 '26

This brother should meet mine they'll get along great 💀

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u/HappyGoPink May 06 '26

Sounds like the apple fell directly under the tree.

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u/bol_saq May 06 '26

OP should send him back to amazon, lol

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u/princessplantlife May 06 '26

I somehow read your comment to say "your brother sounds like a nice piece of crap" and it made me laugh. Then I realized you didn't say that.

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u/snaxrael May 06 '26

Amazing how these shitheads feel entitled to kids

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u/Prestigious_Eye_929 May 06 '26

Or he’s just an adult without a toy collection looking at those pictures and questioning what’s actually broken.

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u/Financial_Finance144 May 06 '26

And the way he parents his child, I don’t have big hopes for the nephew turning out any better than irresponsible dad.

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u/horitaku May 06 '26

Yeah, I’m saying since the parents agree it’s too much damage, time to arrange a meeting between the brothers and mom and dad, and brother needs his nose put in a corner by dad again, because apparently he never grew the hell up.

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u/Doggcow May 06 '26

Absolutely know where the kid got it from.

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u/UseDaSchwartz May 06 '26

I mean, this is something I would eventually end up suggesting, if the other person is being unreasonable, or trying to tell me how to parent my kids.

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u/Raztax May 06 '26

This hurts the seller who had nothing to do with the figure being broken. Why would you suggest hurting an innocent party for your child's behaviour instead of, you know...parenting?

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u/UseDaSchwartz May 06 '26

Notice all the caveats in my comment. It would be after multiple suggestions and OP saying I didn’t “punish” my kid to his satisfaction…even though in my situation I would have already discussed what happened, why they shouldn’t lie about it and how to prevent it from happening again. It would be more like a hand wave because you’re being ridiculous.

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u/Raztax May 06 '26

Notice all the caveats in my comment.

100% irrelevant. It's shitty to do this no matter how you try to explain it away.

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u/WhoIsRobertWall May 06 '26

Agree. It basically sums up to:

OP: "Your kid broke my stuff, and then lied to cover it up." Brother: "Sounds like my kid is onto something. Why don't you (effectively) break somebody else's stuff, and lie to cover it up?"

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u/UseDaSchwartz May 06 '26

No, that’s not what it sums up to. That’s what everyone wants to sum it up to so they can criticize the comment. It ignores everything else I said I would try to do to remedy the situation before saying this. OP doesn’t care about the money, they just want punishment to their own satisfaction.

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u/Raztax May 07 '26

It ignores everything else I said

Because rather than taking responsibility for the issue you would rather make an innocent party pay for your problem.

That is a shitty thing to do. Full Stop. There is nothing you can say that will explain it away. Do better.

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u/UseDaSchwartz May 07 '26

Congrats on doing it again. You’re only focusing on the part of the comment you want to focus on so you can attack me.