The cost of buying a 4* cover is quite high, along with the cost of a roster slot. So I thought maybe it will be good to know what this virtual currency can buy you in real life. I’ll start off with what I can get in Malaysia:
4* cover (2500HP) = 10 lunches
Roster slot (900-950HP) = 4 lunches
Stark salaray is $99 USD, for 20k HP.. it can get you, maybe a taxi to the airport? Dinner for 4 at Olive Garden..can’t even get a real taxidermied Jackalope for that.
2500 hp, so if you bought Logan’s loonies maybe $20. (2900 hp for 22.99 cdn) It’s cheaper if you do stark salary.
So 2-4 lunches depending on what you eat.
15 GBP can get you roughly 5 Subway lunches, no? Without drinks of course.
Poland:
Logan Loonies (2900HP) for 75PLN - this is like about 5 lunches.
So I’ve just got to not eat for a day or two and that single cover can be mine?
Well, that puts it into perspective… 
DBC
$20 USD
about 7 gallons of gasoline
A wireless network card at Best Buy (online only)
1/10th of my monthly cell phone bill (family plan)
An oil change
Front brake pads
A Game Of The Year edition of a PS3 game
3 tall beers at the Green Door
A Blu-Ray if you catch the right sale the week its released, or 5 Blu-Rays if you wait until Black Friday
A 64 Gig USB flash drive
20 Pepsi 2-Liters if you catch the right sale
Sounds like you are gearing up for a LAN party.. may want to make those Mountain Dew’s instead of Pepsi.
St. Louis MO.
A steel book cased blu-Ray of Raiders of the lost ark, and a crapload of food at Panda Express. That was the last $20 I spent yesterday.
In the Land of the Rising Sun, 2500 yen will get you:
A single four star cover from a Stark salary buys me either of this:
Two king chicken sandwiches with fries and soda, plus two ice creams at Burger King.
Three tickets for the movies plus change for the bus.
A month worth of Netflix (five accounts, four devices) plus change for a three-pack microwave popcorn.
A week worth of transport for myself.
Twelve packs of milk (I consume one daily).
Three three-pack Trojan condoms.
Four venti or whatever they call it at Starbucks, plus some change.
Two 18-pack of toilet paper.
All those things together are worth eight four-star covers.
300 packs of ramen noodles.
Tales from the Borderlands or Rocket League on Steam.
7 packs of guitar strings.
Also remember, this is 1/13th of fully covering the character. To get the character to fully usable, you need 10 covers (assuming winning the first three). So you’re up to $150 USD, for a single unleveled virtual character. That will get you the complete Adam West Batman box set.
A Stark Salary costs $100 in U.S. dollars. A 4* cover is one-eighth of that, which works out to $12.50. That’s dinner at an okay restaurant (or lunch for a week from McDonald’s); a bargain-bin video game or a big-name AAA game during a Steam sale (for instance the entirety of Skyrim, including expansions); ; a non-matinee movie ticket; a month of Hulu and a good chunk of that same month of Netflix; a third of a tank of gas; or (sigh) two days’ worth of tolls for my commute to work and back.
But that’s a Stark Salary. If you can’t or don’t want to plop down $100 US on the game at a time and just want the one cover, you buy Logan’s Loonies - 2900 HP for $20. At that price, 2500 HP works out to $17 and change. That’d pay for Hulu and Netflix for a month outright; dinner at a good (but not fancy) restaurant; groceries for one person for a week, if they’re frugal; a hardcover book; or a recentish movie on blu-ray.
The retail price of a Li’l Jon album on iTunes is about 11-12 USD. So you can either have Countdown for What, or Turn Down for What - your choice 
A stark salary would pay my 40mbps internet and dishnet tv bill for 1 month. One 4* cover is a tank of gas. In Des Moines, Iowa.
Near Toronto, Canada
Logan’s Loonies ($22.99) will pay for…
Stark Salary ($119.99) will pay for…
Logan’s Loonies costs R$60, which is about the cost of a basic phone bill (monthly fee of a basic service package), two to three football tickets of the lowest price, two lunches (including stuff like fast food burger+soda+chips, all-you-can-eat, etc) or 4x burger, two medium top grade pizzas, 20x 2L soda, 20x bus pass (half of what most working people use in 20 days; students pay half), movie in theater for two (some snack included, not popcorn tho), 30x 40mb service pack of 3/4g service on pre-paid phone, a cheap pair of shoes, monthly fee for a 15mb speed Internet at home (mobile services are at least 2x more expensive), 3 months of Netflix, 4x top grade milkshake.
Stark Salary is R$300, so a retail game for PS4/Xbox One, 2x 3ds game, monthly fee on parking lots, a cheap phone like Samsung Galaxy Y, a cheap tablet with 7" screen (no phone, only WiFi), 20x porn magazine, 100x best newspaper avaliable, 2x daily cleaner service.
So I have a few observations:
When your starting city is different from your destination, you usually have to pay a premium when taking a taxi, since they are unlikely to have a passenger to cover the return trip. There are shuttle services for the airport that run on the hour that are much cheaper, but they don’t cover the area where I live.
Back on topic for the cost of 1 4* cover I usually buy 2 Blu Ray films or 3 DVD’s. Feed a family of 5 for a day, buy lunch for a week or even get to work and back for 3 days in my own car.