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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!

Well done Sherlock

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.

I've checked a couple of sets of et65 wheels on the bay, guess what, all sold prior to the end of the auction !!

Hi Lindsay

No surprise then it seems!
Guess its going to be a long wait till summer! :):)

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

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

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.

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

Here's the link for Fat Fingers for ebay....


http://fatfingers.com/

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.
Let me know if you are interested?

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

Your S4 looks great by the way!

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?

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!

(sorry for the thread hijack by the way)