How I Busted a Thief Who Tried to Sell My Camera on Craigslist

Re:How I Busted a Thief Who Tried to Sell My Camera on Craig... by kelnos on Sunday April 07, 2013 @03:51AM (#5506449)

But it's not. Getting paid $10k and giving it back is net zero.

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Re:How I Busted a Thief Who Tried to Sell My Camera on Craig... by bwooce on Sunday April 07, 2013 @04:29AM (#5506519)

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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Re:How I Busted a Thief Who Tried to Sell My Camera on Craig... by icebraining on Sunday April 07, 2013 @05:09AM (#5506591)

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

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Re:How I Busted a Thief Who Tried to Sell My Camera on Craig... by rmc on Sunday April 07, 2013 @06:17AM (#5506704)

But the merchant is still down a TV. Those things aren't free.

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Re:How I Busted a Thief Who Tried to Sell My Camera on Craig... by kelnos on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @05:43AM (#5517138)

Sure. I objected to the assertion that the merchant lost $17k, which is a gross exaggeration.

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Re:How I Busted a Thief Who Tried to Sell My Camera on Craig... by ceol on Monday April 08, 2013 @01:59AM (#5510183)

Like everyone else said, it's not exactly that. It's like getting paid $10k in exchange for a TV, then giving it back but not getting the TV back in return.

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