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German speaking fellow zazzlers !
Is the German zazzle properly translated or is it only one robot made mirror translation ? I do not speak german I can not judge - but I am very curious !
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It's a 'colourful' mix. Many links go to untranslated, english pages, e.g. if you click on 'hilfe' you get the english help files. I doubt this is 'helpful' for average german customer.
Product pages are either untranslated or robot made. It seems they use google translate for this. The results are mixed, ranging from halfway readable to complete nonsense. Some graqphics and buttons are translated, some are not.
Homepage and many other pages seem to be translated by someone who is familiar with the language. But I spotted some oddities. Quite often sentences and words are translated to literal. I got the impression whoever translated it is no native speaker.
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I still don't see my products showing up in the german site.
Edit - i think i see the reason. I have my own links and not the Zazzle sidebar, my categories use gifts? and the german site uses geschenke? The links i have on my nav bars don't seem to translate.
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I only just checked the main page. So far I got a few grins out of it  Will have to check later to see the rest.
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Thank you for your answers . I guessed that robots were involved  !
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almawad wrote: Thank you for your answers . I guessed that robots were involved ! Yep, they use the Google tool.  BTW - I´m just building a store in German for our daughter-in-law which is completely German from products over titles and descriptions to tags. If you look at that from zazzle.com it´s not translated. I was looking forward to having a grin at the German > English translations   Hilly
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almawad wrote: German speaking fellow zazzlers !
Is the German zazzle properly translated or is it only one robot made mirror translation ? I do not speak german I can not judge - but I am very curious ! Hi, I´m from Germany and developed the site for my products WILD RED ANTS. The "help" is almost all in Englisch. Somebody who does not read english won´t understand a thing. The text you ad yourself in your motherlanguage will not be translated automaticly in other languages. You can only translate your discription yourself or with a google translater. I have written my site in english, but I dout that anybody in Europe will order. I want to sell my print designs to dealers also in bigger amounts, but there is no address anybody could get an inqiury. My site is on .de and the questions you send to the .com in English. For a simple customer it is confusing.  Pia
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Well, since they opened up Germany, I had my first two Sales out of that area (one Germany and Switzerland).
The way it is right now, isn't perfect, but I'm sure they are working on improvements.
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I have not sold yet to any German speaking area - but I hope that I will .
I wonder Nicole what are the Germans for ? Organic , frogs , ladybirds ? Do they like ties ?
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Hello everyone. I must say that I have the same problem when going on a German Zazzle Store Link for my Store. Bummer,I am German,and the way how my site looks,half way kinda translated is not cool.Of course it is Google translated, which does not even come close to the real German Language. Ouch.So what can we Germans or anyone do about that? If anyone needs a translation,please let me know, I am German,have a good day all.
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I can tell everyone what germans are most for. Beyond most other things. They are extremely keen on properly written german.
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WEll , according to my experience with google/translate the more simple the sentence is the better the translation is . Let us describe the things in a very simple way !
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I have a German customer that wants to purchase from my store (we've been in contact via email - in English). Obviously she wants to order via the German store for shipping costs, however the items she sees on my .com and .au etc stores are not in the German store. I've got about 220 items on the .com store and only 143 on the German one. Does anyone have any suggestions for me? Someone above mentioned it was because the links are not translated? That does not make sense to me. Thanks! http://www.zazzle.com/dierksfans*http://www.zazzle.com/dierksfans*
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Would it really affect the price if she ordered from the German site if all the production facilities are in California.. or did I miss something?
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Oh. I did not realize that it would ship from the US. I guess I just assumed it would ship from the country ordered from, thus her shipping would be less ordering from Germany than the US...
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they all ship from the US , however with the various country sites things like the EU VAT can be added in...and they can be purchased in their home language (with translation) and their home currency
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We just sold our first item to Germany. So good translation or not, Danke to whomever did the buying! 
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