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It costs more than it gets back

It costs $26,730 a month and gets back $2,250: $24,480 a month worse off.

• Of the 603 shoppers it screens out each month, 594 are honest shoppers: 98.5% of everyone screened out.
• Still getting through: 21 of the 30 fraudulent orders.
• It costs the people going through it 150 hours a month, 30.2 of them from people who do not get through.

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How this answer was worked out

Every formula is written out on the formulas page.

What the calculator asks you

• How many steps, and how many people arrive
• What each wanted person is worth, and the share each step turns away
• The share it is meant to stop, what each costs, and the share each step stops
• What a step costs the people going through it
• Any fee paid by those who get through

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