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Jan-31-2006 12:40

Hey if you do get three cases wrong - What actually happens, after all if you are a paying member do you actually get kick out of the site?

Feb-5-2006 17:57

Last time I paid him it was $7340, that's higher than my exp.

Feb-5-2006 20:37

hehe i have one false now and its $739,634 or something like that. I do know in NY , Shady is more expensive......Someone said that Delhi ,which is where Im visiting now, is the cheapest to pay shady. Thats wild how each city has a different price :)

Feb-6-2006 00:13

I really doubt Shady's prices differ between the various cities as they go up by a specific percentage for every case - can't really see that percentage having been made to differ in the various cities, though.

Feb-6-2006 00:25

Greyling, I had my doubts as well. So I did a little experiement. Traveled, did no cases, and yes, there is a difference in the cities.

Feb-6-2006 01:30

*scratches head* - but the time I checked there wasn't any difference between how much they wanted me to pay??

Feb-6-2006 06:36

Remember that shady charges the same whether you clear one FA or two - so most of us wait til we get a second one before we pay him off. (Just gotta be v. careful not to get that third one!)

Feb-6-2006 07:13

I think the minimum price is $400, then it's experience plus 20%...

Feb-6-2006 07:22

Lemur that equation must be wrong. Mak is over 4 million XP now, and she said her price with Shady is just under 800,000.

Which is not quite 20% *of* her experience points, so there may be some sort of rough equivilent there.

Then again I think this is one of those things we hope we never find out.

JST, you have gobs of XP, any idea what Shady would charge you now?

Feb-6-2006 11:43

Actually I don't think Shady charges the same for one or two. If you get one and you wait...by the time you get two your experience has gone up so it can be quite a bit higher if you wait to get the 2nd one. The 2nd time I went to him I had 1, it was about $2000, I waited until I got another (about 10 days later) and it had gone up to almost $5000 because my experience was higher.

I've found it easier (and cheaper) in the long run to clear them as you get them as long as you don't get 1 every other day. If you're getting 1 a day then yes, wait till you have 2.

Feb-6-2006 14:29

Well if Mak pays around 800k and her experience is around 4m then that would suggest that the price is about 20% _of_ your experience.

Surely it's always cheaper to go to shady when you have 2 FAs if he charges you the same removing 1 or 2 FAs. For instance Peter would have had to have paid $2k + $5k = $7k instead of just $5k.