Amiga listings on eBay Germany

[royalcrown]

There are 3rd party services that you can have the seller ship to in their own country, then the third party ships it to you wherever you are, just learned of this myself.

http://www.bpm-lux.com/en/home.html

[direktorn]

What usually (but not always) works for me is sending the seller a mail saying something like:

"Hi, I noticed that you are only shipping to Germany. Unfortunately I live in Belgium. As you can see in my feedback, I'm an eBayer in good standing with 100% positive feedback. I'm really interested in this item. If you'd be willing to make an exception and ship to my country anyway, please tell me how much shipping would cost. Kind regards, Username"

Most of the time they agree to sell to me. Sometimes they don't.

Yes that is what I do as well, I've seen the same on all local bays (There it no such thing as worldwide ebay) and its either just a convenience or a strategy to limit the regions.

[direktorn]

There are 3rd party services that you can have the seller ship to in their own country, then the third party ships it to you wherever you are, just learned of this myself.

http://www.bpm-lux.com/en/home.html

true, but you need a local ebay account, you can't bid on a item in germany if your account says otherwise and the seller only accepts bidders from germany.

[royalcrown]

I don't know about that, if it just says no shipping, could you not still bid anyhow ?

[AmigaBruno]

It usually says that items will only be sent to Germany "Versand nach: Deutschland". I can use my eBay UK membership to sign into any eBay site I've visited so far. There was a Global eBay, but it closed down.

Here's an amazing find on eBay Germany. It's a Paradox SCSI controller, which is just an interface that plugs into the parallel port. I've never heard of these before. I bet someone could clone them. That would be much easier to buy than the "Hen's teeth" GVP SCSI controllers, although they're being made again now. You can use Google Chrome if you need a translation. "Versand nach: Deutschland", with the exception of the East Frisian Islands, North Frisian Islands, and Baltic Islands, which are just off the coast of Germany. Don't trust these pesky Frisian and Baltic islanders! Helgoland might be OK, though. Luckily, Sylt is connected by a narrow strip of land.

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200922891797&fromMakeTrack=true&ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:top:de

[direktorn]

It usually says that items will only be sent to Germany "Versand nach: Deutschland". I can use my eBay UK membership to sign into any eBay site I've visited so far. There was a Global eBay, but it closed down.
 
Here's an amazing find on eBay Germany. It's a Paradox SCSI controller, which is just an interface that plugs into the parallel port. I've never heard of these before. I bet someone could clone them. That would be much easier to buy than the "Hen's teeth" GVP SCSI controllers, although they're being made again now. You can use Google Chrome if you need a translation. "Versand nach: Deutschland", with the exception of the East Frisian Islands, North Frisian Islands, and Baltic Islands, which are just off the coast of Germany. Don't trust these pesky Frisian and Baltic islanders! Helgoland might be OK, though. Luckily, Sylt is connected by a narrow strip of land.
 

Yes SCSI at the rate of the amiga paralellport sounds like a speedfreak, not...
 
Have you even contacted the seller? I guess not

[psxphill]

It usually says that items will only be sent to Germany "Versand nach: Deutschland". I can use my eBay UK membership to sign into any eBay site I've visited so far. There was a Global eBay, but it closed down.

ebay is global, if you have a url of an item on ebay.com and change it to ebay.co.uk then it works fine (the currency etc is based on which one you go to so it's often useful to do it).
 
Normally when you do a search the site only shows items that will post to the country that the url is for, but I think you may be able to override that with an advanced search. I've seen some international auctions where changing the url makes the postage to your country vary, so it's worth having a play with it.

[AmigaBruno]

Yes SCSI at the rate of the amiga paralellport sounds like a speedfreak, not...
 
Have you even contacted the seller? I guess not

I don't know about the data transfer rate. I only know that it must be faster than a floppy drive and this device seems to allow any Amiga A500 or A500 Plus to have a SCSI hard drive drive fitted without looking for a "rare as hen's teeth" edge connector unit. No A500/A500 Plus units are available on http://www.gvp-m.com/productjapan.html .

I've just contacted the seller and will contact some more sellers on eBay Germany soon.

[AllocVec]

I don't know about the data transfer rate. I only know that it must be faster than a floppy drive and this device seems to allow any Amiga A500 or A500 Plus to have a SCSI hard drive drive fitted without looking for a "rare as hen's teeth" edge connector unit. No A500/A500 Plus units are available on http://www.gvp-m.com/productjapan.html .

I've just contacted the seller and will contact some more sellers on eBay Germany soon.

If you are interested in a SCSI-host for the A500, drop me a PM, I have one for offer.

[AmigaBruno]

If you are interested in a SCSI-host for the A500, drop me a PM, I have one for offer.

Last month I bought a GVP Impact Series II HD8+ unit for the A500/A500 Plus, but the HDD stopped booting or being readable after 5 days. I'm now waiting for a replacement SCSI HDD from Zetr0 and a replacement internal SCSI cable from Amigakit. I'm not interested in buying a similar edge connector SCSI controller. I AM interested in alternatives.

BTW, I've just contacted several sellers on eBay Germany who are listing A1200s, A2000s, or A3000s.

[AmigaBruno]

ebay is global, if you have a url of an item on ebay.com and change it to ebay.co.uk then it works fine (the currency etc is based on which one you go to so it's often useful to do it).
 
Normally when you do a search the site only shows items that will post to the country that the url is for, but I think you may be able to override that with an advanced search. I've seen some international auctions where changing the url makes the postage to your country vary, so it's worth having a play with it.

I've been finding out about these items by logging into various eBay sites, but not specifying if the items are available to my location. If I use advanced search then I can specify to only show items whose sellers agree to send them to my location.

[Iggy]

I have never bought anything from Germany, but I have shipped several items.
I had a few K6-III+ processors that would clock at 550MHz that my German customers paid a premium for (might have something to do with the Global Foundries fab facility they have over there - that and it seems they prize being able to buy something other than the most common product on the market).

And I would not be too worried  about translating your messages to German.
There are far more Germans that speak English than Englishman that speak German.

[AmigaBruno]

I'm now bidding on one eBay item which was listed as being available only to Germany!

[Iggy]

I'm now bidding on one eBay item which was listed as being available only to Germany!

Hopefully after checking with the seller first.

[AmigaBruno]

Hopefully after checking with the seller first.

Yes, that's what I meant. I do speak German, anyway. I'm a linguist.

Of course, a much better solution would be to set up a portal by my front door which enables me to arrive anywhere in the World with just a single step through my door. This seems more logical, because I first read about it before the Amiga, eBay, or PayPal started. I think it was in The Fantastic Four, but I could be wrong.

[Iggy]

I do speak German, anyway. I'm a linguist.QUOTE]

I envy you. That seems like a tough language to learn. But it would be cool to actually converse with some of my friends in their native tongue.

Good luck with the auction.
I've bought a lot of neat things via Ebay.