Early december, a coworker asked me if I wanted Magic the Gathering cards her husband wanted to get rid off. I accepted and end up with 5 briefcases full of cards.

Going through the cards, I found that they were a lot (and I mean a lot) of cards ranging from anywhere between 15$ and 80$. I thought it was a little weird that her husband would just gifted away that many expensive cards, so I texted my coworker to ask if she was sure that her husband was giving everything to me. Her response was “yes, he is sure. He doesn’t play with them anymore. Enjoy”. So I kept the cards to built deck, trade some and sold a bunch of them at my local card shop for a couple hundread of bucks.

Fast foward to yesterday. Coworker came to me during lunch to ask if I can give her back all the cards. Turns out that she didn’t ask her husband at all before giving everything to me and he’s extremely pissed about it. I told her that I could give back the cards I still own, but I’ve traded and sold a lot of them and didn’t have them anymore. She got pretty desperate when I told her that and then ask if I could also give her, in addition of the collection I still own, the money I made so her husband can buy the cards I trade/sold again.

I told her that I thought that I was already pretty nice to gave back some of her husband collection but it’s to late for the card I’ve traded/solded and I’m keeping the money, so it’s either that or I’m keeping everything. She got very mad and when she started yelling at me to give everything, money included, back to fix this, I told her that’s her problem and she stormed off. She didn’t talk to me since and I still have the cards.

AITA?

Edit:

Just to clarify some thing, I did told my coworker that they were valuable cards in her husband collection when I text her to reconfirm. The collection I was “gifted” wasn’t just valuable cards, the majority of cards were pretty cheap (like under 1$). It’s just that with the amount of cards given, the number of valuable cards grow pretty quickly.

Also, I’ve read a lot of comment about keeping “stolen goods” for myself. I’m willing to give back the rest of the cards I have to her husband, but my coworker is the only way I have to gave it back to him.

Edit 2:

This blew up way more than I thought so here’s a quick late night update.

I have managed to spoke with my coworker’s husband via messenger and showed him the screenshot of my discussion I had with her telling her about the value of some cards and if she was sure he was okay with giving me everything (as a lot of comments recommend me to do). We’re gonna meet tomorrow so I can give him back what I have left of his collection.

About the card I’ve sold or trade, he told me to not worry about it and keep everything because what’s done is done. He did ask though how much money I made by selling some of his cards because he fully intend to make my coworker pay him back the same amount of money I made (which is about 500$).

Overall, the dude was pretty chill with me and very thankful to get most of his collection back.

Sidenote: I wouldn’t be surprised if my coworker announced next week that her husband as filled for divorce because he made it very clear during our conversation that he was completly done with her.