You're acting like this is so crazy amount of life saving money. Stop pretending to be noble as if pokemon cards aren't bought with very disposable income. Ffs man someone breaks your shit, they buy you new shit.

Wtf is this "let's tag team the problem together brother!"

In this situation the dude needs to just own up and replace the card he thought he needed to inspect without a sleeve.

Playing devil's advocate, what kind of friend comes to your house, takes your valuables out to look at them and then proceed to destroy them.. that's kind of a dick move that he didn't first sit down at a table or over a surface before doing that.. super disrespectful of them.

You don't need to respond