It says this in the article only a third of it is worth selling at any price.
> In the end, only about one-third of the items in baggage end up for sale
I understand that a lot of business flyers would write off their underwear, toothbrush, and gym shoes -- but I don't think GP was suggesting those people should be dumpster diving in Alabamaba. (I'm in Australia, and I really don't have any idea how inconvenient it is to get to Alabama, and to then dive through a warehouse of bags, assuming it's even possible.)
> They're listing outlying extreme cases. Most people aren't travelling with a $64k watch in their checked baggage. It says this in the article only a third of it is worth selling at any price.
Totally agree - but the point is that in some cases (npi) there clearly were valuables worth the effort, at least from a naive calculation perspective.
There are also multiples of this watch for ~$25,000 on chrono24, it’s not as desirable like the steel rolexes are.
Good luck! :-)