Need German resident to help with ebay.de purchases

[Robert Deutsch]

LOL! The funny thing is, I wasn't even thinking of the fact that my last name is
German for "German". I'm a third generation Canadian, which makes me the second
generation not to speak German anymore. 

Thanx for your help with the translation stuff. I wouldn't feel comfortable with
purchasing from a foreign listing unless I had a pretty good idea of what it
said. Once in a while there are some pretty tasty items come up (like a complete
stainless custom exhaust system for Typ89s that I saw a month or two ago for
~$350 CDN).

Thanx again.

Rob Deutsch
'90 CQ20v



Eric Sanborn wrote:
> 
> 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/