posted on April 24, 2005 05:14:49 AM new
I know I live in Canada, but I am actually English, so I don't know French. Could someone translate this for me? I'm pretty sure she wants to pay by Paypal, but that's a "no go" for me.
Si possible, je préfère attendre la fin des autres de vos objets sur lesquels j'ai mis des enchères (fin dans 1 ou 2 jours... ), si vous êtes d'accord, pour vous payer. Je ne peux pas vous payer par PayPal si j'ai bien compris ? Il faut envoyer 1 mandat ?
posted on April 24, 2005 05:35:24 AM new
it reads "If possible, I prefer to await the end of the others of your objects on which I put biddings (end in 1 or 2 days...), if you agree, to pay you. I cannot pay you by PayPal if I included/understood well? 1 should be sent mandate?"
posted on April 24, 2005 05:46:45 AM new
toasted: Thank you so much, phew, she doesn't want to pay by Paypal. I have to reply in English, I hope she has a translater!
posted on April 24, 2005 06:31:55 AM new
You really don't as you can go into babelfish and put your english in there and change it to French. I have done that with auctions. I had a french book and I wrote the description first in english and then when to babelfish and reversed it to french so it had both english and a french description. I was lucky as the winning bidder did speak english.
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[ edited by Libra63 on Apr 24, 2005 08:50 AM ]
posted on April 24, 2005 07:56:01 AM new
Just a warning ... Sometimes babelfish translates to absolute gibberish. I found this out when I used it on some Spanish. Usually, though, it is decipherable in the other language.
posted on April 24, 2005 09:35:51 AM new
Just curious. She said "mandat." It was translated "mandate." Could that mean invoice, or money order, as a possibility?
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posted on April 24, 2005 01:06:21 PM new
"Mandat" would be her payment; she wants to wait until the other auctions end and send just one payment for the items she wins, if that's agreeable to you.
posted on April 24, 2005 01:42:23 PM new
Thanks for all the help. I had sent a reply in English, so I used babelfish and translated into French for her, I think she was very impressed, she bid on 3 more auctions.
