| From: | losthalo <losthalo@********.COM> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Fencing vs. Street Index |
| Date: | Tue, 5 May 1998 21:25:42 -0400 |
>My Question is therefore:
>
>Where does the extra money go?
Discount to the buyer for hot merchandise, and the fence's profit for
handling such illegal stuff.
>Look at this example... I will leave out negotiations tests to simplify, a
>runner team gets 100 rounds of APDS ammo. Instead of keeping it the sell
>it to a fence. APDS costs 70Y per 10 rounds and has a street index of 4.
>the runners in this case get 210Y and the fence gets 2800Y - 210Y = 2590Y
>
>I know that this is overly simplistic, but I think that you get my drift...
>Why would a runner sell to a fence when he can sell the stuff on the street
>(or to a fixer) at a much higher profit?
A Fixer should take a similar chunk, because they are essentially fences
(among other things). On the street? You run all the risks that the fence
does in looking for buyers, including having someone snitch to the Star, or
falling into a sting operation.
>I mean, I KNOW that the fence is taking a risk.. but so are the runners!
>what about this:
>"Optional" Runners get to multiply an item by its STREET INDEX, then they
>start at 30% of that and negotiate!
Well, I do agree that street index should affect the base price, if that's
where you're selling it. If something's worth three times as much on the
street, then if you're selling it to a Fixer starting with the base price
as 3x the list price for negotiating with him makes sense to me.
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