[s-cars] Anyone familiar with this e-bay seller?

[Mihnea Cotet]

No, he isn't Robert or whomever he may be, he's a very reputable Ebay
seller but who also happens to sell chips while he has no idea what' inside
them.

Mihnea

'85 coupe quattro, tuned by me ;-)

At 10:27 19/09/2003 +0200, Bjørn Ødegård wrote:
>Is it our 'friend' Robert? ;o))
>
>Bjorn  :o)
>'92 S4 Roland Mayer equipped. Safe as a baby!
>
>Btw: See http://www.qstuning.com/mtm.asp for some cool info! :o)
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mihnea Cotet" <mik at info.fundp.ac.be>
>To: "Jed Batchelder" <jkvt at wcvt.com>
>Cc: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
>Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 9:48 AM
>Subject: Re: [s-cars] Anyone familiar with this e-bay seller?
>
>
> > --
> > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
> > Never had to deal with him but I've sent him the following email, not
> > because I wanted to buy it but rather because I wanted to know if the
>guy
> > knows what he's selling or not.... and his answer lies below my email:
> >
> >           c_mihnea@********.com wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > I am very interested in your chip offer but if you don't mind, I have
>a few
> > questions about the chips:
> >
> > -who/which company programmed them exactly?
> > -what are the boost levels I should be seeing with the chips at 4000,
>6000
> > and 7000 RPMs?
> > -what fuel are they meant for?
> > -is the altitude boost reduction failsafe feature still retained?
> > -what AFRs and EGTs should I expect with the chips after the turbine?
> >
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your answer in advance,
> >
> >
> > M.C from Europe
> > --------------------
> >
> > And the seller replied:
> >
> >          From: "German Parts Wholesale"
><germanpartswholesale@***********.com>
> >
> >          Sorry, No Foreign Sales.
> >
> >
> > My conclusion? He chose the easy answer in order to avoid having to
>say
> > what he didn't know (like boost and advance possibly, and most likely
>EGTs
> > and AFRs). Another person I know has emailed him asking for details
>(dunno
> > which exactly though) and the seller has never replied.
> >
> > Additionally, for the price he's selling the chipset, there's no way
>in
> > h*ll he could sell his own work, at least I would never sell my own
>chips
> > on Ebay at $179 and "buy it now" at $199, damn, I know how much
>efforts it
> > cost me to do them and I'd never do that. But this seller most likely
> > doesn't have a single clue what he's reselling, he may be reselling
>some
> > famous tuner's chips (like Ned's Stage 3? who knows?) but he may also
> > resell crappy chips he's bought off of German Ebay where there are
>some
> > real dangerous chipsets for sale!
> >
> > So one word: BEWARE!
> >
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Mihnea
> >
> >
> >
> > At 20:57 18/09/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=243239078
>4
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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