Has anyone else noticed a tendency for people to give really bad art supplies when gifting?

This is going to sound dickish, but whenever someone thinks of giving me an art related gift, for some reason they gravitate towards the worst art supplies money can buy. Last year at christmas there was a €25 secret santa in my family -- and I got €25 worth, expressed in €1 art supplies. Like, the a whole bunch of the worst markers, the worst color pencils, and the worst sketchbook you can get for money. The christmas before that I also got a set of very passable kids' color markers, and just now I recieved a school crayon set as a souvenir. Is this a thing??