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From:	shadowrn@*********.com (Lone Eagle)
Subject:	Decks (and how to reduce costs)
Date:	Mon Apr 29 06:20:01 2002

Message no. 1 OK, remembering the thread Gurth started ages ago about deck prices being
too high I thought I'd run this past everyone.

MPCP8 Deck for ¥100,000 (plus change)

The Renracku archology project used to manufacture and ship Cyberdecks, (as
a small caveat the campaign I'm running/playing in hasn't reached "Shutdown"
yet)
If a character can gain access to the basement1 loading docks what is to
stop him offering the foreman five years wages, in cash, used bills non
sequencially numbered to make a Kraftwerk-8 "fall off the back of a lorry"?
The character is planning to get access by ordering a security grade piece
of software (through one of his cleaner false SINs) and stating that he will
send a courier for it, he will then get on his bike and be the courier.

I hope I've explained that well enough.
What do people think?

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From:	shadowrn@*********.com (Downtym)
Subject:	Decks (and how to reduce costs)
Date:	Mon Apr 29 08:30:01 2002

Message no. 2 On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Lone Eagle wrote:

> MPCP8 Deck for ¥100,000 (plus change)

> <snip da' plan>

> I hope I've explained that well enough.
> What do people think?

Renraku Wage Slave: "Hey, I think you're one short on this shipment."

Truck Driver: "Yeah, well, funny story that. We lost it."

*Sounds of a clipboard slapping into the ground followed by a pen. The
wage slave seems to be staring through the truch driver at something
in the distance*

Wage Slave: "You-you-you LOST IT?!"

Driver: "...Well...yeah. One of the cases fell out the back."

Wage Slave: *Passes out*

I'm pretty sure that losing a piece of hardware over 500,000 nuyen in
value is a big enough thing to warrant investigation by whatever
qualifies as IA (Internal Affairs [aka. The Stormtroopers] ) in
Renraku. This is like someone "losing" diamonds today, people notice
and people want to know why they were lost.

[I wonder if Renraku has insurance on the stuff it ships...]

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From:	shadowrn@*********.com (Valeu John EMFA)
Subject:	Decks (and how to reduce costs)
Date:	Mon Apr 29 09:15:01 2002

Message no. 3 >Renraku Wage Slave: "Hey, I think you're one short on this shipment."

>Truck Driver: "Yeah, well, funny story that. We lost it."

>*Sounds of a clipboard slapping into the ground followed by a pen. The
>wage slave seems to be staring through the truch driver at something
>in the distance*

>Wage Slave: "You-you-you LOST IT?!"

>Driver: "...Well...yeah. One of the cases fell out the back."

>Wage Slave: *Passes out*

>I'm pretty sure that losing a piece of hardware over 500,000 nuyen in
>value is a big enough thing to warrant investigation by whatever
>qualifies as IA (Internal Affairs [aka. The Stormtroopers] ) in
>Renraku. This is like someone "losing" diamonds today, people notice
>and people want to know why they were lost.

>[I wonder if Renraku has insurance on the stuff it ships...]

Actually, if one of the crates should happen to bust open and, in the rush,
one of the decks were to not quite get back into the crate....
IIRC there are about 4-8 decks in a crate. So an entire crate missing would
warrant an investigation, but one deck missing from a re-sealed crate?
Maybe not. Depends on how soon they caught the "mistake".
If nobody found out till they got to the distributor, they by then it's
probably too late.

Don't have Cyberpirates, so I can't check on the exact number per crate
(Check the shadowtalk near the beginning. It's in there.)

Just a thought....

EMFN John Valeu
-AKA- TimeKeeper

From:	shadowrn@*********.com (Lone Eagle)
Subject:	Decks (and how to reduce costs)
Date:	Mon Apr 29 09:15:03 2002

Message no. 4 >From: Downtym <gte138j@*****.gatech.edu>
>I'm pretty sure that losing a piece of hardware over 500,000 nuyen in
>value is a big enough thing to warrant investigation by whatever
>qualifies as IA (Internal Affairs [aka. The Stormtroopers] ) in
>Renraku. This is like someone "losing" diamonds today, people notice
>and people want to know why they were lost.
>
>[I wonder if Renraku has insurance on the stuff it ships...]

¥400,000 but....
Renraku are bound to have insurance, and when you think about the turnover
they must have on decks alone even half a million is chickenfeed.
Most of the computer companies today throw away any parts that don't quite
make the grade and most manufacturers of consumer goods won't ship anything
which has been damaged. More often than not employees can hook stuff out of
the bin at the end of the day so a test inspector who needs a new pc could
fail every part they need and retrieve them at the end of the day. For
consumer goods there is normally an arrangement where damaged goods can be
purchased for peanuts by employees or occasionally a small business who
specialize in the field, that's how I got £500 worth of washer drier for
next to nothing. I'd rewrite your senario more like this...

Renraku Driver: Alright chummer, seven Renraku Kraftwerk-8 cyberdecks.

Wage Slave: Seven? we ordered eight.

Renraku Driver: Yeah, the other one was damaged we'll have a replacement out
to you within the next day or two, sign here, here, here, here, here,
fingerprint there and blood sample here.

Wage Slave: Right, bloody red tape eh. you'd have thought slotting my ID
would do it wouldn't you? Where was the other one?

Renraku Driver: Right there (pointing to a dotted line). I wouldn't know
about that guv, I'm just a driver. See you thursday....

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