Fencing Gear, Is car theft profitable? Options

[deek]

With the recent threads on run payouts and loot, as well as the often mentioned phrase, "You might as well just start jacking cars and skip the job that only pays X nuyen", I was curious to how profitable people think car theft is.

Looking at the fencing rules, you have a base 30% asking price for any piece of gear. So that brand new Eurocar, is worth 25,500. But, looking at street costs table on page 303, there are a lot of cost adjustments. The big one (for runners, at least) is -20% item stolen. That then puts the asking price of a stolen Eurocar down to a measely 8,500...and that is BRAND NEW.

If the item is used, that's another -20%, from what I can tell, so how is anyone making money by car jacking a used car?

So, a team of four runners, stealing a brand new Eurocar are what, hoping to get just over 2K a piece? And likely have to wait 6+ hours before the money is in hand? I just don't understand how that would ever make sense to a team...

Thoughts?