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Message no. 1
From: soulmama soulmama@*****.net
Subject: Question about Prices
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 11:01:26 -0600
Greetings from a lurker,
I am curious as to the prices of common items in SR. Things like
pepto-bismol, aspirin, candy bars, etc. Things you pick up in a grocery
store and such. Wold the prices be comparable to those of today? Thanks for
any feedback.

danzig138
Message no. 2
From: dbuehrer@******.carl.org dbuehrer@******.carl.org
Subject: Question about Prices
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:36:46 -0700
soulmama wrote:
>Greetings from a lurker,
>I am curious as to the prices of common items in SR. Things like
>pepto-bismol, aspirin, candy bars, etc. Things you pick up in a grocery
>store and such. Wold the prices be comparable to those of today? Thanks for
>any feedback.

I don't know if it's in SR3, or where it was in SR2, but there was at one
point a line in one of the rules books that suggested using comparable RL
prices for things like that. So if a bottle of aspirin costs $2 in RL, it
costs 2 Nuyen in Shadowrun.

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Message no. 3
From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: Question about Prices
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:10:43 +0100
According to soulmama, at 11:01 on 20 Mar 00, the word on the street
was...

> I am curious as to the prices of common items in SR. Things like
> pepto-bismol, aspirin, candy bars, etc. Things you pick up in a grocery
> store and such. Wold the prices be comparable to those of today? Thanks for
> any feedback.

A few SR books mention that to get prices of items not listed in FASA
books, you can take the dollar price of the same item today and use it as
if it were nuyen. For example, if a candy bar costs 49 cents in the US
(note that I don't remember any actual prices for them from my two US
vacations, so I took one that sounds good), it costs half a nuyen in SR.
Or, if you want a nice sofa for your apartment, which costs $500 IRL, your
character would pay some 500 nuyen for one.

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Message no. 4
From: Manolis Skoulikas greatworm@*****.com
Subject: Question about Prices
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 01:53:43 +0200
soulmama wrote:
>
> Greetings from a lurker,
> I am curious as to the prices of common items in SR. Things like
> pepto-bismol, aspirin, candy bars, etc. Things you pick up in a grocery
> store and such. Wold the prices be comparable to those of today? Thanks for
> any feedback.
>
In Denver campaign set it mentions that the equivalency in 2055 is:

1 nuyen = $4.75

I guees that is till a good pointer for todays prices if you
take some things in cosideration.

The Wiz
Message no. 5
From: Adam J adamj@*********.html.com
Subject: Question about Prices
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:08:09 -0700
At 01:53 3/21/00 +0200, Manolis Skoulikas wrote:

>In Denver campaign set it mentions that the equivalency in 2055 is:
>
> 1 nuyen = $4.75

Have a page reference on this? I see than 1 Nuyen = 5 UCAS Dollar and 1
Nuyen = 4.75 CAS Dollars, but nothing that points towards a current day
American dollar..

Adam
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Message no. 6
From: Manolis Skoulikas greatworm@*****.com
Subject: Question about Prices
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 02:19:20 +0200
Adam J wrote:
>
> At 01:53 3/21/00 +0200, Manolis Skoulikas wrote:
>
> >In Denver campaign set it mentions that the equivalency in 2055 is:
> >
> > 1 nuyen = $4.75
>
> Have a page reference on this? I see than 1 Nuyen = 5 UCAS Dollar and 1
> Nuyen = 4.75 CAS Dollars, but nothing that points towards a current day
> American dollar..
>

Sure thing, p.105 Players Book. I don't see anything on the UCAS dollar,
can you state page and supplement? Thanks.

As for the equivalency, I think that FASA probably meant indirectlt a
1/1 ratio IMO. I Would appreciate commenta on that since I am Greek
and American monetary values of the future would be all Greek to me :)

The Wiz
Message no. 7
From: Alfredo B Alves dghost@****.com
Subject: Question about Prices
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 18:42:47 -0800
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 01:53:43 +0200 Manolis Skoulikas
<greatworm@*****.com> writes:
> soulmama wrote:
> >
> > Greetings from a lurker,
> > I am curious as to the prices of common items in SR. Things like
> > pepto-bismol, aspirin, candy bars, etc. Things you pick up in a
> grocery
> > store and such. Wold the prices be comparable to those of today?
> Thanks for
> > any feedback.
> >
> In Denver campaign set it mentions that the equivalency in 2055 is:
>
> 1 nuyen = $4.75
>
> I guees that is till a good pointer for todays prices if you
> take some things in cosideration.

Nope. IIRC, that's 1 nuyen = 4.75 UCAS or CAS dollars (one of those). BIG
difference.

1 nuyen = 1 US dollar.

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Message no. 8
From: Iridios iridios@*****.com
Subject: Question about Prices
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 21:13:39 -0500
Alfredo B Alves wrote:
>
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 01:53:43 +0200 Manolis Skoulikas
> <greatworm@*****.com> writes:
> > soulmama wrote:
> > >
> > > Greetings from a lurker,
> > > I am curious as to the prices of common items in SR. Things like
> > > pepto-bismol, aspirin, candy bars, etc. Things you pick up in a
> > grocery
> > > store and such. Wold the prices be comparable to those of today?
> > Thanks for
> > > any feedback.
> > >
> > In Denver campaign set it mentions that the equivalency in 2055 is:
> >
> > 1 nuyen = $4.75
> >
> > I guees that is till a good pointer for todays prices if you
> > take some things in cosideration.
>
> Nope. IIRC, that's 1 nuyen = 4.75 UCAS or CAS dollars (one of those). BIG
> difference.
>
> 1 nuyen = 1 US dollar.

Pg. 56 of the Denver GM book has an exchange rate table that covers
UCAS, CAS, UK, TT, TNN, and others. UCAS $ is at 5$ to 1¥, CAS is
4.75 to 1.

As for comparison to US dollars (today), I don't remember where, but I
read that 1$ equals 1¥.


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Message no. 9
From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: Question about Prices
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 11:25:05 +0100
According to Manolis Skoulikas, at 1:53 on 21 Mar 00, the word on the
street was...

> > I am curious as to the prices of common items in SR. Things like
> > pepto-bismol, aspirin, candy bars, etc. Things you pick up in a grocery
> > store and such. Wold the prices be comparable to those of today? Thanks for
> > any feedback.
> >
> In Denver campaign set it mentions that the equivalency in 2055 is:
>
> 1 nuyen = $4.75
>
> I guees that is till a good pointer for todays prices if you
> take some things in cosideration.

That's the CAS dollar to nuyen conversion rate. UCAS dollar to nuyen is 1Y
= $5. If you flip back to page 54 of the Denver GM book, then read the
last line above the header "Getting the Goods," you'll find that FASA
recommends US$1 IRL = 1 nuyen to get an estimate of the cost of an item.

For all non-Americans, what this means is that you can convert the price
of something in your country to dollars, and have the nuyen price. For
example, I simply double all guilder prices to get nuyen, because US$1 is
about 2.20 Dutch guilders ATM (and I don't feel like adding 10% after
doubling the price :)

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Message no. 10
From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: Question about Prices
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 11:25:05 +0100
According to Adam J, at 17:08 on 20 Mar 00, the word on the street was...

> >In Denver campaign set it mentions that the equivalency in 2055 is:
> >
> > 1 nuyen = $4.75
>
> Have a page reference on this? I see than 1 Nuyen = 5 UCAS Dollar and 1
> Nuyen = 4.75 CAS Dollars, but nothing that points towards a current day
> American dollar..

It's on page 54, not page 56 (where the above comes from). Unless I'm
mistaken, it is also mentioned in another book that 1 RL US dollar equals
1 nuyen, but I can't remember what book right now.

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