darkSpyro

Since lots of people are getting things from Amazon.de, I want to know a few things about it. Do you need Euros and if not, can pounds be used on it? Is there any mobile phone translator app for internet? And can I buy in the UK using pounds? Please help me.

All I know is people in the US can buy her, I did.

You can use credit card to pay and when you get your bill, it will be converted to US dollar or canadian, also to translate it to english i used google chrome, it will asked you if you want to translate it to english when your on amazon.de website. Im from Canada and I ordered 2 Polar Whirlwind from Amazon.it and since it was italian, google chrome asked me if i want to translate it to english and waalaaa everything was in english.

Quote: Hexblazer

You can use credit card to pay and when you get your bill, it will be converted to US dollar or canadian, also to translate it to english i used google chrome, it will asked you if you want to translate it to english when your on amazon.de website.

Can it be converted to pounds as well? Otherwise, I'm done here.

Quote: gillgrunt987

Quote: Hexblazer

You can use credit card to pay and when you get your bill, it will be converted to US dollar or canadian, also to translate it to english i used google chrome, it will asked you if you want to translate it to english when your on amazon.de website.

Can it be converted to pounds as well? Otherwise, I'm done here.

Of course

Yeah, online transactions just get converted to your currency (with your credit card charging a slightly higher rate than the official, as a charge for the conversion. Every place does it), don't worry about the financial aspect. Since you're clearly in the UK, I would think something like this would have come up before... Oh well.

As for language, you can copy the address of the original listing into Google Translate, but after that the pages are generated by what you do, if you copy the address the page will just be blank (for example, if you add something to your cart, when you view your cart it'll be there, but the translated version will say "Your cart is empty"). So after that just highlight parts you want and copy & paste into Google Translate - http://translate.google.com. I live in an area where my language, English, is not the area standard, so I use translators all the time. I find Google Translate to be the most effective so far. I've used this method to order twice from Amazon.de and twice from Amazon.it. I always just set the Original Text language to "Detect Language", that usually works.

The only problem left is that this doesn't translate buttons, and of course that's what you need the most. You can usually highlight the text, but for some reason it won't copy (at least for me, I'm using Firefox on a PC running Windows Vista). What I do is open a Notepad window smaller than my browser window, position the window so it doesn't cover the button(s) and manually type out what the button(s) says into Notepad, then copy from there. I use Character Map (standard on every version of Windows, though older versions don't install it by default. By default it's in the Accessories menu under System Tools) to get any accented characters, since I can't type them directly without knowing their codes.

This is more labour-intensive than using English Amazon, but it works.

Good luck!

Wow, posts happened while I was typing, LOL! I really don't get why people get these concerns over money. Money is money is money, it's just a unit of measure. If you wanted, you could tell your bank "I want everything in my account to be in American dollars from now on", and they'd do it. Every transaction (like when you pay a bill or buy someting with your bank card) would cause such a conversion on each transaction.

It's like seeing a ride that says "You must be at least 5 feet tall to go on this ride" and thinking you can't go because you measure your height in meters. It's just units of measure, only a conversion is required, it's all compatible.

MrRichGuy isn't concern about money, we all not rich and some have to work so hard to earn it.

I don't think that is what niceguy means. I understood what he said to mean NOT that it doesn't matter what things cost--but rather that when using a debit/credit card, "money is money" and the creditor will get paid regardless of the type of currency used where you are from. The adjustments will be made on statement for you to see. You can use good or whatever to find a free exchange calculated to determine if the price is ok for you. Once that decision is made your debit/credit card will work.

I see niceguy sorry i misunderstood your comment, thanks shelly

Hexblazer--classy way to have handled that . I don't often see people say--that they
misunderstood and apologize.

amazon.de does the conversion for you

Quote: shelly9871

Hexblazer--classy way to have handled that . I don't often see people say--that they
misunderstood and apologize.

To much fighting is no good, we need peace in our world

When I bought mine the funds were automatically exchanged from US $ to Euro.

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I don't think that is what niceguy means. I understood what he said to mean NOT that it doesn't matter what things cost--but rather that when using a debit/credit card, "money is money" and the creditor will get paid regardless of the type of currency used where you are from. The adjustments will be made on statement for you to see. You can use good or whatever to find a free exchange calculated to determine if the price is ok for you. Once that decision is made your debit/credit card will work.

Thanks for providing the clarification, LOL! Yes, I did indeed mean things that way. Basically I was just saying that different currencies are really only different units of measure for money. Just like 1 mile is 1.6 km, 10 Euros is $15 (or whatever the conversion rate is). Different numbers that are equal.

And to clarify your point with a point I made, if you use some currency converter to check the value in your currency (I go to Yahoo and search "currency converter", Yahoo has its own that ends up being one of the results, and I think you can convert right there on the search page), note that it'll be using the official conversion rate. As I said, EVERYBODY raises that rate slightly as a charge for converting the currency. So if the converter says it's $20, it'll probably cost you like $20.50.

Quote: Hexblazer

I see niceguy sorry i misunderstood your comment, thanks shelly

I appreciate and accept the apology, Thanks so much for providing it, not everybody would. To clarify, I've spent WAY too much time being broke - and am currently looking for work - to ever adopt an attitude of "Who cares, it's only money" as you seemed to think I did. I APPRECIATE the value of money! LOL!

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amazon.de does the conversion for you

Unless you found some feature I didn't that allows you to change the currency listed on the site or in your Cart, no, they don't. It's whatever you pay with that does it for you, most likely your credit card. If you pay with a credit card, it'll say in the description that the charge is for 9.99 Euros (for example), and what rate they're using, and show the dollar amount (or in the case of the original poster, pounds). Here's one of mine from my online banking, from when I ordered 2 Scarlet Ninjini's last week:

Quote:

Point of Sale - Visa Debit INTL VISA DEB RETAIL PURCHASE Amazon EU ------------------ 00000000037.33 EUR @ 1.368069

(I dashed out the random number that I didn't recognize and could be some ID that could breach my security and such)

As you can see, I paid by Visa (actually, Visa Debit, my bank card counts as a Visa card online). The 2 Scarlets with shipping and taxes and such were 37.33 Euros, and my bank converted it at a rate of 1.368069. This resulted in the amount out of my account ACTUALLY being $51.07 Canadian. (And for example, using a currency converter, Euros are worth less than British Pounds, so the conversion rate is below 1, at 0.8423 today, resulting in 31.442 pounds for the same 37.33 Euros).

Can Amazon.it also be bought in pounds?

^ yes i've purchased several items from amazon.it using a £ sterling account

^ Me too.

Quote: gillgrunt987

Can Amazon.it also be bought in pounds?

*sigh* We just went through this! LOL! READ the posts! Currencies aren't this exclusive thing, they are only different units of measure for money. Money is money everywhere. And credit cards are credit cards everywhere. Amazon charges the required amount to your credit card, and if it's not in the currency you have selected, the currency the credit card company has on file for you, that is to say in pounds, then as a convenience the credit card company will convert it to the amount in pounds on your statement. Plus, Italy uses Euros just like Germany does, if it works in Germany, why wouldn't it work in Italy for the same currency?

I even SHOWED you how it works!

Once again, to be clear, the company (Amazon.de, Amazon.it, or whoever else you might order from) has NOTHING to do with this. They say "We need 20 Euros from this credit card", the credit card company gives them 20 Euros. Done and done. After that the company is no longer involved in the finances. They have no idea that 20 Euros is about to be converted into pounds (or American dollars, or Canadian dollars, or Japanese yen, or whatever), all they know is that they got the 20 Euros they needed.

Do you understand now?