From:	Mark Fender markf@******.com
Subject:	Price info: Street value
Date:	Wed, 1 Sep 1999 11:35:13 -0500

> >I go with the 50 price for several reasons. If they weren't affordable,
> no
> >one would do them. Also, in modern equivalents, a quarter ounce of
> marijuana
> >goes for right around $50. That and once you apply Street Index to the
> above
> >costs, the prices get above what the average chip-using wirehead could
> >afford (except in Bug City where the Street Index is listed as .5!).
> >
>
> Apply street index to BTL's....LOL!!!!
>
> It's not like you can buy them retail :)
>
Why not? Dealers don't buy them at Street price, because they'd have to jack
them up (Bad pun - sorry) and then no one could afford them. I've always
assumed that Street Index is for the guy on the street, not his supplier,
not his supplier, or the distributor above that. The fixer that applies
Street Index is covering his expenses for getting the item for you, making a
profit, etc. Of course, he doesn't look in the Wall Street Journal to find
today's Street Index, but it's a nice approximation for gaming.

And if you don't apply Street Index to BTLs, then why give a .5 for Bug
City? Obviously, FASA intended this to be done.