To that end, May I bring up the "favor" rules on page 389 of the main book?
Madoff, my contact who works in a high end mechanic shop has a loyalty rating of 4. According to that chart, getting him to loan me a rank 6 targeting autosoft costing 3000 nuyen would be under the 5000 mark for a lvl 2 favor. He should be able to swing that, given enough time, right? Am i reading this correctly? If so, Eugene would be paying him for the merch once he was paid in full from the job, so a very short term loan.