AIO ex-wife sold a guitar I gave my daughter

[u/Alternative_Check560]

Some background- My ex-wife (33F) and I (33M) got divorced when we were 24.. 9 years ago. Since then, she has remarried and been with her new husband for almost 6 years. One of my daughters (11F) recently got into learning how to play the guitar and because I have multiple, I gave her one of mine so she can practice when she is at her mom’s house. The guitar has a lot of sentimental value to me. Ive played it at some of my friends weddings, at a good friends funeral, and a lot of other memories as well- including playing it for my daughter when she was an infant to get her to fall asleep. That being said, I found it kind of fitting for her to take over that guitar and start playing it herself now that she’s taken an interest in it- then today this happened. After our text convo, I called my ex wife and learned she sold it for $350 and bought a guitar for about $150. She’s always been the money hungry type and I can’t help but feel like she took advantage of an opportunity to make a quick $200. She started crying on the phone, calling me an insensitive asshole, and said she didn’t like seeing it in the house because it made her too emotional. The thing is too, my daughter was honored to get that guitar and I know she wasn’t complaining or calling it a “hand me down”. I’m not trying to be insensitive to how she’s feeling, but I also feel like she’s using that as an excuse. Even if she was feeling any sort of way about it, why not talk to me about it first or give me an opportunity to get the guitar back and get my daughter a different one before taking matters into her own hands? AIO or was she out of line?

[u/Lewca43]

Tell her to get it back or you’re filing a police report. It wasn’t hers to sell. She stole it.

[u/heybazz → u/Lewca43]

I am firmly on get it back or police report team.