Re: This is how you rob a store--in a Bentley
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It is a bit of a nonsense when they give the retail price to indicate the size of the raid. If the actual cost of the diamonds was $1 million but they would have sold for $10 million, then was it really a $10 million robbery? I wonder what figure the insurers will pay - the cost or the retail price?
Still, it's not as misleading as when a large shipment of, say, a tonne of cocaine is seized, and news reports give the estimated value as if it had been sold on the street by the gramme!
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This is a good point and I'm surprised it hasn't crossed my mind before. You're right, both robberies and seizures are typically described as being of far greater value than they actually have. I'm sure if many retail goods sold at their declared retail value, the owners would be making an absolute killing.
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