Cheap cups can be fine, cheap pumps don't tend to have a guage this is very important especially when starting out, so you don't over pump and hurt yourself.
You can buy a cheap hand pump with guage in the automotive tools section of eBay and Amazon for about £10.
Then try cheap cups and see how you go, my cheap ones cracked when I sat up, so I spent £60 on a pair of Nooglberry ones, but I'm still using the £10 vac pump.
Hope that helps.
Danni x