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Author:  Bizman928 [ Wed Jan 26, 2011 3:07 pm ]
Post subject:  Cup Alloys & price fixing by Porsche-apart UK - watch out!
Just a heads up for everyone.
Have been watching a few sets of Cup Alloys on ebay for 928 & 968 with ET65 & ET55 offsets for the front. They keep disappearing?
I asked Porsche-apart if they had any and they said yes but £1000 plus for a set!!! Bit steep and top end!
When I probed them about this they said they buy them for around 500 off ebay and re-sell them for £1000.
I told them good luck if people were mad enough to pay that price.

Yesterday the 2 sets I missed had their auction ended early - Both sellers have told me that Porsche-apart have bought them & the auctions ended early.

Beware of these guys trying to inflate the prices or Cup Alloys. The 968 set I was watching were ET65 on the fronts and were going for around £250 with a few hours to go for the set before the listing was ended early. Even if they went for £400 and you got each wheel refurbished it only costs £50 per wheel so £800 MAX. Porsche Apart selling them for £1500 refurbished or £1000 in current state is just greed.

Hope everyone ignores Porsche-apart and their Cup Alloy sales.....They must think we are all MUGS! :):):)

Buy from them at your own peril!

I will keep hunting for my Cup Alloys and beat those guys to the next set! :)
Author:  Andrew [ Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:36 pm ]
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Well done Sherlock
Author:  Barnsy9 [ Wed Jan 26, 2011 8:29 pm ]
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I had been watching those wheels as well Steve.

Now it makes sense why they ended so soon.

As if it isn't hard enough to get a decent set of wheels.
Author:  Bizman928 [ Wed Jan 26, 2011 11:22 pm ]
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Barnsy9 wrote:
I had been watching those wheels as well Steve.

Now it makes sense why they ended so soon.

As if it isn't hard enough to get a decent set of wheels.



I had only been watching these since you had pointed the link out to me. I had been chasing a set of 968 wheels which Porsche-apart had advertised and offered to me for a low price of £100 when they realised the mistake they then requoted me over £1000. Thats when the discussion ensued and they told me they buy them up for less than £600 and mark them up to sell over £1000 or over £1600 of they get them refurbished.

Then I noticed this morning the Wheels you were looking at had gone and you told me you were looking at some others. So I mailed the seller to find out why they had been removed from auction & he told me that Porsche-apart had picked them up this morning and he had pulled the advert off ebay.

Felt like punching someone! :):):)

No scrupples those guys.


We will search on and hope to dodge the Porsche-apart vulture team scouring the ebay circus.
Author:  lindsayhbrown [ Thu Jan 27, 2011 10:24 pm ]
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I've checked a couple of sets of et65 wheels on the bay, guess what, all sold prior to the end of the auction !!
Author:  Bizman928 [ Fri Jan 28, 2011 12:38 am ]
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Hi Lindsay

No surprise then it seems!
Guess its going to be a long wait till summer! :):):)
Author:  Llewelyn [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 1:47 pm ]
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This is annoying! Best thing to do is get in there first - Also check other places such as the VW fan boys forums and gumtree... They do come up - It's just a case of waiting and getting in there quick when they do come up!

I'm looking for a set of 16" tele's or drain covers at the minute but there doesn't seem to be a great deal about :albino:
Author:  Bizman928 [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 4:49 pm ]
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Llewelyn wrote:
This is annoying! Best thing to do is get in there first - Also check other places such as the VW fan boys forums and gumtree... They do come up - It's just a case of waiting and getting in there quick when they do come up!

I'm looking for a set of 16" tele's or drain covers at the minute but there doesn't seem to be a great deal about :albino:



Hi Llewelyn
I surf the VW forums too as this is a good resource. I have seen a good set of teledials over the past week in my surfing travels. I will keep ,y eye's open for you and let you know.

Steve
Author:  Llewelyn [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 5:05 pm ]
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Thanks Steve... Keep an eye on Gumtree as well - Always worth a look. I often check dodgy spellings on ebay too, for instance on ebay if you search for "Por* -Porsche", you will get all the Porsche items which are misspelt which is handy.
Author:  Bizman928 [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 5:12 pm ]
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If you want to be able to pick up all the wrong spellings on nebay here's a good tip....

try "Fat Fingers" as a search on the web

- its a front end search for ebay and works on the basis of finding all the permutations of miss-spelt words in your search string. You would be suprised what gets picked up by all the different miss-spellings of words.

Its worth using the link.

Steve
Author:  Bizman928 [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 5:14 pm ]
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Here's the link for Fat Fingers for ebay....


http://fatfingers.com/
Author:  Lee 944 [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 7:01 pm ]
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Llewelyn wrote:
I'm looking for a set of 16" tele's or drain covers at the minute but there doesn't seem to be a great deal about :albino:

My wheels will be coming up for sale in a few weeks, once I have my Cup2's on. I could meet you at the border if you want to drive up for them. They're not mint and could do with a refurb.
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Let me know if you are interested?
Author:  Llewelyn [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 7:35 pm ]
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Steve - I'll check the fat fingers site out... It sounds interesting!

Lee - I am definitely interested! Give me a shout when you have your cup wheels :D

Your S4 looks great by the way!
Author:  Lee 944 [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 8:29 pm ]
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Thanks Llewelyn, I'll give you a shout.

Hang on a minute??????? Are you thinking of buying a car in Glasgow?????? How many many people called Llewelyn have I spoke to about 928's in the last 2 weeks? Is that you Llewelyn?
Author:  Llewelyn [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 9:21 pm ]
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Haha! Yeah it's me!

I'll keep you posted re the car in Glasgow buddy, hopefully she'll be in touch soon.

I can't imagine what percentage of worldwide 928 enthusiasts are called Llewelyn but I doubt there are many! :lol:

(sorry for the thread hijack by the way)
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