Can you solve this? Let your mind spin - part 2

[Preety_India]

1 minute ago, Meta-Man said:

You must take into account that the store owner also lost 70$ worth of goods.

The worth of the goods is already accounted for. 

The bill has been returned back during the transaction. But an additional $30 given for a false transaction. 

So a net total of $100.

 

[SoonHei]

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[SoonHei]

9 minutes ago, Serotoninluv said:

This assumes that the $70 of merchandise would have eventually been sold. If the thief bought $70 of perishable items that no one else would have bought and the storeowner had to discard the items, his net loss would be less than $100. 

??? Bruhhh...

 

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[Mulky]

130 dollars.  He lost 100, and he lost 30 when he gave the man 30 dollars in change.  He also gained 100 dollars at one point, but thats a different matter

Edited April 11, 2020 by Mulky
was wrong at first

[wavydude]

I'm actually surprised how many people give wrong answers, it's obviously $100.
 

Thief leaves the store with $70 of goods and $30 in cash. 

70+30=100 

[SamueLSD]

4 minutes ago, wavydude said:

I'm actually surprised how many people give wrong answers, it's obviously $100.
 

Thief leaves the store with $70 of goods and $30 in cash. 

70+30=100 

But the goods themselves aren't money! 

[wavydude]

@SamueLSD

Then it becomes an issue of asking question more clearly. 

Owner lost $30 in cash or $100 in cash and goods, pretty simple.

[Free Mind]

$100 but that seems too obvious

Edited April 11, 2020 by Free Mind

[The observer]

4 hours ago, wavydude said:

@SamueLSD

Then it becomes an issue of asking question more clearly. 

Owner lost $30 in cash or $100 in cash and goods, pretty simple.

but the goods obviously didn't cost the owner as much as theyre sold any way the puzzle was flawed already 

Edited April 11, 2020 by The observer

[Forestluv]

Consider it as two separate, independent events. There is the theft of $100, followed by a regular purchase of $70. 

Imagine the thief stole $100 and left the store. An hour later, a regular customer enters the store and makes a purchase. How much did the storeowner lose? . . . $100.

The purchase after the theft is irrelevant. It doesn’t matter who made the purchase. 

The trick of the riddle is that the mind wants to mix the two events together. The riddle re-enforces this tendency of the mind by saying that the thief paid for the goods with the same $100 bill that he stole.