They get less money for them, but they still get scrap value. The fences definitely notice, they ship them in containers off to where they can be disassembled, so maybe you get $5-10 for that laptop, but hey, that is still some amount of fentanyl.

By making the fence value of the products less, however, it definitely creates a disincentive to work hard to steal a laptop. If it is easy, ya, its gone, but otherwise, their are much better ways to earn those five bucks.