Need German resident to help with ebay.de purchases

[Eric Sanborn]

Robert Deutsch wrote:

>I think that there would also be other listers who would be interested in
>someone to help them with German perchases from eBay. I know that I would be. My
>German is non-existent and so I would never be able to buy anything from German
>auctions. If someone were to offer their help to listers the rest of us who no
>schprekens zie (?) would appreciate it I'm sure.
>
>Rob Deutsch
>'90 CQ20v
>

Ah the irony (your last name).  My German is definately not good.  Most 
of what I know is technical German since my company sell a few German 
products.  However I bought a set of Euro headlights of ebay.de for a 
song with no trouble.  If you keep a copy of ebay.com open the layout is 
the same so you don't really need to read anything related to ebay.  As 
for the descriptions use the following:

http://babelfish.altavista.com/
This will let you drop the entire description in and give a rather 
butchered but readable translation.  Don't however think you can just 
type your reply into this and get a good translation.  (See below)

http://dict.leo.org
This is a very good dictionary.  You can only do one word at a time, but 
I have never stumped it.  It goes both ways without having to tell it 
specifically which way you want.

As for replying to sellers I would first write what you want to say in 
very simple English.  If you want you can put an even simplier reply 
below that translated using babelfish.  Most Germans can at least read 
and write English.  Many know it extremely well.

Long story short you should be able to get anything you want and not 
speak a bit of German.

-- 
Eric Sanborn
'85 4ktq

http://sofadog.net/4ktq/