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Tony Cooper <
tonycooper214@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, 1 Aug 2026 08:08:11 +0200, Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> wrote:
[...]
If you buy shares in a new company, your money will help the company
grow and be more efficient. If you buy 'old' shares, it won't help the >company in the production.
So what? If you buy a used car you are not helping the company that manufacturered the car. If you buy a previously-owned house you are
not helping the company that built the house. Purchasing anything
that has previously been purchased from the manufacturer doesn't
benefit the manufacturers or the companies that sold them the material
to make the product.
It gives the item second-hand resale value, which is often taken into
account when buying a major new item. If car fleet buyers discovered
that one model had no resale value after a couple of years, they
wouldn't be prepared to pay as much for that model as for one where they
could recoup part of the original cost.
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