Actually, including one or two Excaliburs might be a good idea. If you're going to fake an order, make certain it's a mix of decks; heavier on the lower-end, with just enough high-end decks to suggest a mom-and-pop place looking to attract people who can't afford to shop at corp stores. It's a lot less likely to be questioned, and it'll make any questions about why your corp suddenly exists that may pop up potentially go away.
I dunno. If you're looking to re-sell cyberdecks, then sure. This is a good plan. But it sounds like Wyrm was talking about using the cyberdecks for a legitimate purpose, like Host sculpting or corporate security or some third thing you use cyberdecks for (?). In that case, you'd be safe with a gauntlet of mid-range decks, explaining that if your start-up takes off you'll upgrade later. Dangle the possibility of future business in front of the supplier, and maybe they'll get greedy and overlook some details.
As far as Wyrm's idea in particular, it's a ballsy maneuver, but I like it. Overall, though, it seems like upgrading a deck requires either months of work in character or else a run in and of itself. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, just a clear limitation for deckers.
Or appearing to resell, yeah. But you're not - or at least, I wouldn't be. I'd be looking to set up the order as 'an unrated local corporation with sufficient funds' who is looking to beef up their matrix security or some such other thing, for whom conformity of sorts is a requirement; you theoretically wouldn't want Shift A guy to have a significantly weaker or stronger deck than Shift B or Shift C guy, otherwise after a few probes, the bad guys (those dastardly shadowrunners!!) would know when to hit, or when to avoid. So you're upgrading overall, to the limit of what you can afford.
Side note: if you can make this a wholly legal transaction,
all the better. Read your politics, and your customs work, &c. Plenty of 'low-end' corporations
outside of Seattle ship
through Seattle, which means that if you find some Salish-Sidhe corp that might purchase MCT decks that get shipped from Yokohama through Seattle, there's your mark. Who
you want to appear to be are the slags at the transshipment warehouse just off the Seattle docks, looking at stupid-ass manifest and to/from shipment details, who
appear to not be giving two craps that the four crates they're receiving are moving twenty cyberdecks worth 4,500,000¥; it's worth 4,500¥ to them to receive, verify intact and unbroken shipment of the crates, and transship in the morning.
Of course, if between 4:00 PM when they sign for the things, and 11:30 AM when they're supposed to 'go out again', they happen to disappear ... as do all records of the order 'sent by' Salish Computer Security, Inc. to Yokohama Cyberdecks ('A Subsidiary of MCT') for the aforementioned 4,500,000¥ worth of cyberdecks, in
both SCS, Inc. and Yokohama Cyberdecks ... then that's pretty much a perfect heist, huh?
Though ideally, you get together with a bunch of guys from out of town somewhere
else, (Denver, Los Angeles, Portland, Houston) and execute it in a
third city - like, say, San Francisco. Don't Shit Where You Eat, and all.
