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by tpxl 1682 days ago
> cannot reasonably verify the resellability

The merchant should always be able to verify that, be it for pants or complex electronics. Verifying a laptop hasn't been tampered with and reinstalling the OEM OS is easy.

> products that are just plain too low margin to bother with

The margin is irrelevant, the cost is what matters. Throwing away an item that cost 300k to make costs 300k, no matter if the margin is 10$ or 100k$.