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| 386 | Where does it give the value of trained pleasure slaves?
(I seem to recall a quote saying the most valuable pleasure slaves are sold for several gold. I'm seeing, in our Gor rp, people paying more than that for an ordinary slave, and would like a quote to show them this is ridiculous)
Answer
The only thing that is consistent about the price of a slave girl is the inconsistency of the price of a slave girl. Here are just a few examples.
A golden tarn disk was a small fortune. It would buy one of the great birds themselves, or as many as five slave girls.
Tarnsman of Gor    Book 1    Page 191
"A silver tarsk," said a man.
"Excellent," said the auctioneer.
This seemed to me an unusually high bid for a raw, untrained barbarian slave, particularly as an opening bid. On the other hand, I had noted that girls seemed to bring high prices in Kailiauk. Several of the girls had gone from the side blocks, for example, for prices ranging between thirty and fifty copper tarsks. In certain other markets these girls, in their current state of barbarity and ignorance, might have brought as little as seven or eight tarsks apiece. These prices, of course, were a function of context and time.
Savages of Gor    Book 17    Page 117
A girl in the Curulean is seldom sold for less than two gold pieces. This is largely, doubtless, because the Curulean refuses to accept women for sale who are not genuinely attractive. In a rather brief amount of time Verbina was auctioned to a young Warrior for seven gold pieces. An extremely good price, under relatively normal market conditions, for a truly beautiful woman of High Caste tends to be about thirty pieces of gold, though some go as high as forty, and fifty is not unknown; these prices, for women of low caste, may be approximately halved.
Assassin of Gor    Book 5    Page 293
Suddenly she threw herself, screaming hysterically, on the auctioneer, but he cuffed her to one side and she fell to her knees weeping. She was sold for twenty-five gold pieces.
Assassin of Gor    Book 5    Page 295
Lana, I recognized, who was sold for four gold pieces.
Assassin of Gor    Book 5    Page 295
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