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Why do bank accounts with money in them sell for less than the amount in them? Is it counterbalanced by the risk of withdrawing from them?



Yes, not only is it very risky to attempt to withdraw money from them, often times you won't manage to get the full amount out before fraud systems go off. Same with credit cards.


This was my thought, admittedly knowing little about this world. E.g. a stolen item's street value is a fraction of it's actual used goods value. It's only worth what you can get in cash within hours.




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