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by bwooce 4815 days ago
Not when you could have sold the TV for $10K. This is the shoplifting issue; the shop loses both the product and the potential profit on the product.

It gets a bit existential e.g. can you lose what you never really had? But even if you fall on the NO side of that, the cost of re-obtaining a product is not zero.

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The cost of re-obtaining the product is $7k, which were already accounted for. Marginal administrative costs are negligible.