Probably Stolen Appraisal: Inspections and Estimates
Probably Stolen appraisal is a paid inspection service: you examine a customer's items, submit estimates and earn fees for accepted valuations. You are not buying those items into your resale inventory. The community reference describes joining the Appraisal Board, displaying its certificate and using the Magnifying Glass to inspect incoming work. If no appraisal customers are arriving, check those service conditions before spending money on unrelated stock.
Join the service before expecting work
The community reference places the Appraisal Board offer on day 8, or day 5 when the intro is skipped. It lists an 85-Credit joining fee on Mark Up, with different costs on other difficulties. That is a service-entry condition rather than the purchase price of the customer's first object. Check both the visitor and the available cash before assuming a missing Join option means that the board has been permanently disabled.
Membership and an ordinary valuable purchase are different things. The official store description broadly encourages authenticating rare goods, but that does not mean every inspection at the sales counter is an Appraisal Board job. The reference identifies a certificate, an inspection tool and an associated guide as part of the service setup. Keep those items identifiable and read the joining conversation rather than substituting an unrelated collectible that happens to look official.
Put the certificate in the display case
The reference says appraisal customers arrive while an Appraisal Board certificate is displayed. Merely owning the certificate somewhere in a backpack or storage bay is therefore not the same documented condition. Check its location when an otherwise functioning shop is receiving ordinary traders but no appraisal work. This is a more direct test than buying another batch of expensive goods in the hope that their presence will attract the right visitor.
The community account also describes arrival chances changing when days pass without a relevant customer. That does not make the service an unconditional appointment every morning, nor does a short wait prove that the certificate is ineffective. Avoid quoting a universal daily customer count without attaching it to the rank and conditions. If the certificate is displayed and the service still differs from the reference, record the run's version before treating the discrepancy as a new hidden rule.
Inspect the item instead of trusting its label
Use the Magnifying Glass and Inspection Tray to examine the item that belongs to the job. The supplied recordings already demonstrate why appearances and sales claims can be misleading during ordinary trading, and appraisal applies that scrutiny to a different transaction. The customer's proposed figure is not a completed valuation simply because it is already shown in the interface. Read the characteristics that the inspection exposes and use the relevant in-game guide rather than guessing from the object's name alone.
The detailed community reference names Cybernetic Hands, Ribwiches and Plasma Cartridges as different item families associated with progression. That is a warning against reusing a familiar value for a different object or newly unlocked type. The supplied material does not establish a universal single-click appraisal value that fits every condition and construction. Exact item tables that have not been verified for the current object remain Pending confirmation (待确认), so do not replace inspection with an invented average.
Submit an estimate as an estimate
The action being evaluated is the price you type into the Inspection Tray, not a bid to purchase the customer's stock. The community reference grades how close that estimate is to the true value and associates accepted estimates with a fee. This explains why the amount in the register can change without the item becoming part of your resale inventory. Keep the proposed valuation, the underlying true value and the service fee as three separate numbers when reviewing the result.
An accepted estimate produces an Appraisal Slip recording the outcome, according to the same reference. Use that feedback to learn which characteristics you read correctly instead of assuming that an accepted job proves every part of the estimate was exact. The transcript's general lesson about careful inspection is useful here, but a profit from selling another item is not an appraisal-service example. Compare like transactions when judging whether the service is paying as expected.
Learn from refusals and rank changes
The reference describes a limit on repeated refused estimates, after which the customer leaves. That means repeatedly entering unrelated prices is not documented as a cost-free method for discovering every answer. Reinspect the relevant traits and the guide before submitting another figure. A refused estimate is feedback about the valuation or accepted grade, not proof that the customer wants you to buy the object instead.
Ranks change the service's available work and fee rules, so an example from an early certificate should not be applied blindly to a later stage. The community reference also describes a way to review item types through certificates, which is different from unlocking new store inventory for ordinary customers. Read the current rank's information before expecting the same visitor mix as the previous one. Universal income per day, automatic perfect estimates and a guaranteed fastest promotion route are not established by the collected material.
Diagnose the missing part of the workflow
If the service has not started, check whether you joined and can afford the offer in your actual difficulty. If visitors are absent, check whether the certificate is in the display case rather than merely owned. If an estimate is refused, check the item family and inspection findings rather than changing unrelated shop signs. These are separate problems, and distinguishing them prevents the same unsuccessful fix from being applied to every situation.
Appraisal also sits inside a business that still has rent, inventory and other visitors to manage. The supplied recordings support treating cash flow carefully, but they do not prove that appraisal alone always funds the store purchase by a particular day. Use accepted-job feedback as evidence of progress without converting it into an invented earnings guarantee. For the broader shop routine, return to the beginner guide; for machinery that changes product value, use machine modules rather than mixing those upgrades into the appraisal rules.
Use the slip to improve the next estimate
An Appraisal Slip is useful because it separates the submitted estimate from the recorded true value and the fee actually earned. Read all of those fields rather than looking only at the positive payment and declaring the inspection perfect. That makes the result a record of what happened in this job instead of a guessed price for every later example of the same object. Keep it associated with the traits you inspected while the details are still clear.
The next item can belong to the same broad family without having exactly the same value. Reuse the inspection method, not just the previous number, and compare any new differences before entering the estimate. The community rank system also changes which standards are accepted, so a result that was sufficient earlier should not be assumed equivalent to the highest grade later. This approach turns feedback into a practical learning routine without inventing an automatic valuation formula unsupported by the material.
Sources and evidence
Reviewed 2026-11-04. Community findings are identified separately from official announcements. Unresolved details are marked Pending confirmation (待确认).
- Probably Stolen on Steam ↗ · Official game description
- Starting with $0 — supplied gameplay transcript ↗ · Player recording; individual run
- Supplied completion-run gameplay transcript ↗ · Player recording; individual run
- Appraisal service reference ↗ · Community mechanics reference