Talk:Wishlists/@comment-25998432-20150216213630/@comment-24668482-20150216224227

It is also possible that your friend's wish lists are empty on purpose. Quite a few players don't ask for stuff regularly, or take occasional breaks from the game while waiting for updates.

And there are quite a few players who either don't know that free gifts come from their inventory, or aren't at high enough level to send some items yet, and only give lower items because they still want to send you something, even if it isn't exactly what you asked for. That doesn't explain everyone who give random lower level items, but they do tend to be the most common reason.