The gift needs to be able to come off as a genuine gift so there’s some plausible deniability…
Edit: Just so it’s clear, this is purely hypothetical. I just thought of the idea and thought it would be funny to see what a random person on Lemmy might think. This isn’t a serious request and none of the suggestions will ever actually be used.
Give them a gift card, but you’ve spent more than half of it.
Or give them a gift card to a store that either does not exist in their area or a store that they wouldn’t want to shop in.
Blockbuster gift card.