Originally Posted by pistaugh

Places all over South Philly sell them for $1.50. Lots of areas of the city don't have a place that sells them close by, so corner store merchants buy a ton of them and sell them for a small profit. The news stand at Broad & Oregon sells them for $1.50 right outside the subway. And of course, SEPTA doesn't sell tokens anywhere nearby at all. If SEPTA had some conveniently located token machines, no one would have to pay the extra 20 cents per token just because it's better than paying $2.00