My friend and I have been seeking to buy some bikes from Germany, and have struck up conversations with potential sellers using this web link as an interpreter...
http://www.google.com/
Dave Whitney Portland, Maine
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 21:31:37 -0500 From: "David Bilenkey" <dbilenkey@sympatico.ca> To: "Classic Rendezvous" <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Subject: [CR]RE:German eBay, WAS: 50th anniversary equipped bike Message-ID: <HBECIOPCNPKEJLCJBKNKGEKLHJAA.dbilenkey@sympatico.ca> In-Reply-To: <121720030126.17082.3050@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain;charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: list Reply-To: dbilenkey@sympatico.ca Message: 7
While I'd really love to bid on this (and many of the other apparent deals Steven points out on German eBay) I can't help but be put off by the 'will only ship to Germany' and the various difficulties in paying and the cost of shipping from there to here. My last 'deal' from Germany was a cool set of off-topic Modolo ALX-90 brakes that my bid amounted to $19 CDN and ended up costing me just shy of $80 CDN after the transfer fees and postage all added up! :-(
What do others on the list do, or not do, or think about this conundrum? No being even remotely capable in German I would feel severely hamstrung in any attempts to deal clearly as I would with any English speaking seller anywhere in the world. And not blessed with relatives that I could saddle with the pick up or sending duties on that side of the world....
And all this to say that I don't want Steven to stop pointing out these finds across the pond, but it amounts to an enormous tease for me at the moment. I can look and only dream of touching! :-P
David Bilenkey
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada