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RE: e34 wheel post

Rodd Sidney was kind enough to furnish me the part numbers for the wheels he 
his selling.  He still hasn't said whether or not they have the older, less 
favored turbine style covers or the newer, much more highly regarded "twisted 
star" covers.  Since no mention was made of tires, presumably none are 
involved.  Plus, I don't have an opportunity to view the part numbers stamped 
into the wheels, so I can only take Rodd's word on the part numbers he 
supplied.  But this whole exercise shouldn't even be necessary if he had been 
more candid in the ad I challenged.  In the interest of fairness, however, I 
will check my parts film this weekend and then post my findings.  Sadly, I 
already know the result of this exercise:  the ad was still misleading at best 
because surely Rodd knows (or should know since he is in the parts business) 
that alternative (and updated) part numbers have been assigned to these 
wheels, and the fact remains that he also failed to describe what he was 
selling (i.e., which covers?).  To me, this smacks of gross disregard for 
those reading the Digest ("uh - I bet there's some suckers out there 
somewhere").  

I personally don't have an objection to some limited commercial advertising on 
the Digest if it is honest and not misleading.  I am not worried about my 
reputation on this one because his ad was clearly less than candid.  If the 
purpose of this Digest is for members to help other members by sharing useful 
knowledge, then I would have failed my duty to fellow Digesters by NOT 
pointing out that is was possible to buy NEW, identical rims, for close to the 
same, or in the case of the twisted star style, less money than he was selling 
used rims for.  One need only look at the current BMW Accessories catalog to 
get the current part number for the M5 wheel with the twisted star cover.  
Sorry, but you won't convince me that the Digest needs this type of misleading 
commerical advertising.  

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From: 	jeffreypi
Sent: 	Thursday, July 18, 1996 6:38 PM
To: 	fastestM5  
Subject: 	re: e34 wheel post

did you take this up with Rodd?   while your post is interesting ( I
guess), it really isn't appropriate for the list, unless you talked to him
and made sure there are no misunderstandings about what is being offered.
Then, it would be a good post. Otherwise, the reputation you may be
damaging could be your own.

For what it's worth...

Jeff