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Originally Posted by brk-lnt
What if the process looked like this:
(kayak stolen) thief sells kayak to pawnshop 1 for $100. Pawnshop 1 sells to pawnshop 2 for $150. Pawnshop 2 sells to innocent bystander for $200. Innocent bystander cleans up item and sells back to pawnshop 1 for $250 pawnshop 1 sells to new innocent bystander for $300. Kayak is finally realized to be stolen, and confiscated from buyer 2.
Who owes whom money (and what amount)? Yes, this is a purposefully complicated exercise meant to attempt to illustrate a point.
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Pawnshop#1 should be out $250 for being stupid enough to pay $250 for something it already paid $100 for! and you should have to pay $50 for making me strain my brain trying to follow your example