If you sold a bunch of laptops like this, and every buyer gets their bank/credit compromised, you'd be found.
Allowing them to distribute via theft gives superior untraceability at scale, though it means the people receiving the laptops might not be as 'fat' targets as people who buy laptops through traceable transactions.
Actually, I think this describes the business model behind many of the software products that are pre-loaded onto laptops before they're sold. I.e. bloatware.
