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Samsung's costs haven't inflated 3x, and they're the fab, therefore there's a real strong argument that they should replace rather than refund. The error in your argument is it being cheaper, it's instead less profitable for Samsung to give refunds at the new purchase price.
I would be willing to bet that a letter from a lawyer along the lines of "refund at purchase price or send replacement, otherwise meet us in court and incur lawyer fees" will get a replacement sent. They're chasing profits, paying lawyers hurt profits, especially since a single lawyer for a day just to review the situation probably costs them more than their current profits.
They certainly have the capability of replacing the hardware but they know they have you over a barrel because they choose the winner, which is them!
They would just eat a few hundred bucks in unrealized profits... which they're never gonna do willingly. They probably have an arbitration clause to prevent class action suits too because that's what everybody lawful evil does these days.
I need you to realize that you're 100% wrong. Their warranty states that the refund will be the market price at the time the warranty case is opened.
You don't even need a lawyer to win this one.