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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Was the item a book or a laptop? I assumed it was a laptop with that price tag.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif; color:black">Hi Claire, we've had this happen (without the dollar amount as a confounding factor). </span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif; color:black">Now if the book is an extremely rare or valuable copy, I imagine that I'd talk to the foundation about reimbursing the patron and taking the book back into our
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