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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: orange on December 03, 2004, 10:23:56 AM

Title: Germany
Post by: orange on December 03, 2004, 10:23:56 AM

I'd like to buy a zorro ethernet card in Germany. The problem is that I don't speak German. Where can I post the advert? Are there any Amiga shops there that sell them?
Could someone translate this for me (to German): "I'm buying Zorro ethernet card Ariadne, X-Surf or other"

BTW, does one need to be registered when buying on ebay? (I've never used ebay before)

Title: Re: Germany
Post by: Nitro on December 03, 2004, 10:29:18 AM

Well there`s always babelfish, I bought an A4000, and two A2000s,on ebay.de.  All actions where done with babelfish.  Although I`ve been in Germany for ten years, I`m not as good with it as I should be.

Title: Re: Germany
Post by: shIva on December 03, 2004, 10:30:17 AM

most germans understand english, so that it´s no problem contacting them in this language.
vesalia and kdh are sellers of the desired hardware.

Title: Re: Germany
Post by: Framiga on December 03, 2004, 10:33:58 AM

try to contact IndividualComputers for a XSurfII.

IIRC there was an special pffer prize for it.

Title: Re: Germany
Post by: Cyberus on December 03, 2004, 11:11:34 AM

It is true, Germans do tend to be quite good at English (its compulsory at school??).

Anyway, to place a wanted ad would be something like:
Ich suche Zorro Netzwerkkart Ariadne, X-Surf, etc

Ich suche (present simple, 'I am looking for') I suppose this would translate literally as 'I search'
'oder' is German for 'or'
'other' is 'andere' (?) like Dutch I think...

Perhaps a German speaker can correct this, I only learned a small amount of German while I was in Berlin for five days and I don't know the grammar well yet.
I know the word 'netzwerkkart' from ebay :-D

On a side note, I hope to have German lessons soon :-)

Title: Re: Germany
Post by: shIva on December 03, 2004, 11:22:29 AM

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Anyway, to place a wanted ad would be something like:
Ich suche Zorro Netzwerkkart Ariadne, X-Surf, etc

Ad style would be : SUCHE Netzwerkkarte XSurf, Ariadne, etc.
(which is "looking for NIC XSurf, ...")
OR : Netzwerkkarte (XSurf, Ariadne, etc.) gesucht

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On a side note, I hope to have German lessons soon

seems you don´t really need german lessons anymore, since you seem to be used to the language :-)

Title: Re: Germany
Post by: AndreasM on December 03, 2004, 11:23:27 AM

>I know the word 'netzwerkkart' from ebay

Netzwerkkarte
Netzwerk-Karte
Netzwerk Karte

:)

Title: Re: Germany
Post by: Cyberus on December 03, 2004, 11:27:25 AM

ok ok, I missed the e off the end...
:-)

Title: Re: Germany
Post by: orange on December 03, 2004, 11:41:06 AM

10x

Individual Computers dont sell X-Surf themselves, only to dealers, and its 90e at vesalia :-( .
I still hope some German might have used one for sale..  :-)

Title: Re: Germany
Post by: cgutjahr on December 03, 2004, 01:35:37 PM

The best place to search for a second hand NIC from Germany would be the classifieds ("Kleinanzeigen") in our forum:

http://www.amiga-news.de/forum

Create an account and post a thread with a title like that:

"S: [the item(s) you want to buy]"

("S:" stands for "Suche:", English equivalent would be "WTB:" or sth. like that).

A NIC should be no problem - as long as you're living in Germany ;-) If people are willing to trade with you probably depends on your location - we have the occasional dutch or czech guy trying to make a deal and they usually succeed.

Title: Re: Germany
Post by: McTrinsic on December 03, 2004, 07:48:37 PM

I agree with cgutjahr,

go to amiga-news.de and create an account, that should be simple; if need be do it with babelfish.

Then you can even post in english, folks will understand you.


Good luck,
McTrinsic

Title: Re: Germany
Post by: orange on December 03, 2004, 10:28:15 PM

Cool, I'll register there. Thank you very much.
 :-)