Originally Posted by
Dirtdrop
French cupsets appear on eBay all the time. I've bought three sets in the last year just for spares. Two are unused Campy Nouvo Record and the other is a used Stronglight. Sugino was making French cups until very recently and there are pleanty of those around. The rarest of the rare cups are Swiss and somebody got an incredible deal:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWA:IT&ih=014
I guess Sheldon can't find a source of French cups that has sufficient volume and at wholesale prices he can accept. It seems you can get nearly ANYTHING on e-bay.