Complete beginner

I've been approached by someone who wants to take up oil painting, but doesn't have a lot of cash to splash. This isn't easy, because there's no getting away from the fact that oil paint is expensive - if it's any good.  I've obviously suggested my E-book (well I would, wouldn't I?) because it's basically aimed at the beginner; I've also suggested Haidee-Jo's book.  But when it comes to finding a good, basic set of paints, life gets complicated.  The Winsor & Newton basic set is priced at around £40; doubtless there are others - the trouble is that it consists, inevitably, of the cheaper colours; contains black, which I don't think a new painter needs, and which indeed they should probably avoid; alizarin crimson - which probably isn't the relatively lightfast substitute, but that doesn't matter for a beginner: unless they get hooked on it; and lacks a strong scarlet red.  All in all - cheap, but I'd never recommend this selection of colours to someone beginning their journey; Winsor Yellow, Indian Red, Yellow Ochre - all fine; Pthalo green - not so fine... cheap, but it'll run away with them. I will look harder for basic sets I could recommend, but if you know of one that you'd be happy to endorse, you could save me a lot of search time. Why a set, and not buying individual colours?  Good question - convenience, basically.  Most sets will give you the paint, obviously, plus a couple of brushes, a palette, probably a bottle of Linseed Oil and Low Odour thinners; if you really don't know what you need at the outset, that's a handy basis - I think I'll say to this person that they should buy such a set, and supplement it with other colours as soon as they can; but could I offer better advice?  I don't want to put them off, but they are going to have to spend a bit!   Incidentally, if you know of a bright red you can trust, but not Cadmium (because of the cost) a recommendation would be helpful: I use Cadmium, and sometimes Winsor/pyrrole red - the one very expensive, the other ... still pricey.  I don't really know of an inexpensive primary red oil paint - maybe they should do without it to start with... 

Tempted by these myself....  

And indeed, thanks for the suggestions, which I'll pass on.  The only thing I have against W & N is their horrible plastic bottles - the tops of which I can never get off without dislocating a wrist...  

Plus - Talens - both Van Gogh and Rembrandt brands - use Linseed oil to mill most of their paints, whereas W & N have used safflower oil for quite a while now.  Quite why, I don't know - I don't think there's any startling price difference; but safflower doesn't have the strength of linseed, and (I don't know how often this has happened) has been known to reliquefy when it was supposed to have dried.  In all fairness, I've never found that it has done so, and a lot of professionals use W & N products and are happy with them; even so - I'm not taking that risk. Their watercolours and acrylics are still of high quality, though.