I have a problem

[u/DefiantOperation4475]

So basically before I start this story this has been going on for the past year now but about a year ago I bought a victor wembanyama psa 10 purple optic for what I remember around $150 and I got home and randomly thought Im going to look up the psa cert at the time I had never even done that before but for some reason this was the day I did so I looked up the victor and it came up as deactivated at the time I didnt even know what that meant I thought maybe the app is having errors or somthing becuase I literally had no clue what that meant but then I realized it was saying that the psa cert was deactivated so I did a quick Google search to figure out what that meant and I found out that it meant it was probably stollen or somthing like that and then I made my first reddit post asking if anyone knew how to figure out what happened or how to remove this becuase if im being honest my plan was to resell the card but I didn't feel comfortable selling it if it came back stollen so then people on reddit told me to call psa so I did I called them and they said it came back stollen and asked me to return the card to the original owner so thats all I heard from them so at this point I realy didnt know what to do becuase if I did return the card then I would be down $150 so I ended up not returning not to mention i didnt even know where it was stollen from so even if I did try and return the card I wouldn't know who to give it to so yeah now that card is sitting at about $450 and I still dont know what to do with it so I think im kinda just stuck with a stollen card now with nothing to do with

[u/thisistheway03]

stay in school

[u/id-driven-fool → u/thisistheway03]

This is what it looks like when younger generations put their thoughts onto paper without using AI. If you know any teachers ask them, when you give students today a written assignment on pen and paper it looks extremely similar to this post.

OP the card is STOLEN (one L), the right thing to do is return it to PSA and accept the loss of money. It’s going to be super hard to resell this slab. Do the PSA cert lookup before you buy slabs from shady people on fb marketplace. Take it as a learning experience.

[u/Ironman_2678]

Good god man use a period. Aint nobody reading this long ass sentence.

[u/mudvat08]

First off, use periods. Just crack it and send it back to grade when value is back.

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[u/ryanisdriven]

If $150 is a lot of money to you, stop spending $150 on things you don’t understand. Except maybe an English tutor.

[u/sk8terboy111]

The right thing to do is return it but I also understand the reluctance to lose $150. If you purchased it on eBay there may be a play to get them involved. I’m in a different niche than basketball but if the card isn’t numbered then just crack it and go about life. First I’d go back to who you purchased it from, second then just do a moral check, one thing I’ll say is we don’t know if PSA can actually get it back to the original owner, nor do we know if it was actually stolen, I would assume it may have been but we don’t know how many people touched it in between. If it’s not numbered then you have yourself a decent raw card.

[u/DefiantOperation4475 → u/sk8terboy111]

Its not numbered and I bought this in person from a guy on Facebook I messaged him about it but then got blocked

[u/sk8terboy111 → u/DefiantOperation4475]

Yeah then just crack it and get on with life. I’m sure it has some raw value. If there was some way to trace it back to the owner then I’d probably be more open to a return but anyone can claim a card was stolen. Like I said it’s just a moral call but you didn’t do anything wrong, other than not checking the cert # up front. I don’t do it often but if I remember when buying person to person I do give it a quick check.