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Oh my the translation of my items is hilarious!
celestius
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So I signed up to the European sales booster programme a few days ago and about 50 of my items have appeared in other sites.
I speak fluent french and just had a quick look at the translation, it is hilarious! I think they just used something like babelfish.
It's actually quite ridiculous, am going to be spending hours fixing the listings!
Unfortunately I don't speak German or Spanish, I imagine it's all just as bad! Why can't they at least use a decent translator!
I speak fluent french and just had a quick look at the translation, it is hilarious! I think they just used something like babelfish.
It's actually quite ridiculous, am going to be spending hours fixing the listings!
Unfortunately I don't speak German or Spanish, I imagine it's all just as bad! Why can't they at least use a decent translator!
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Automation rarely works. I've recently been using Webinterpret on Amazon, I believe they do stuff for Ebay too. They appear to do it all manually and have a free trial period. It's been pretty good for me so far.So I signed up to the European sales booster programme a few days ago and about 50 of my items have appeared in other sites.
I speak fluent french and just had a quick look at the translation, it is hilarious! I think they just used something like babelfish.
It's actually quite ridiculous, am going to be spending hours fixing the listings!
Unfortunately I don't speak German or Spanish, I imagine it's all just as bad! Why can't they at least use a decent translator!.0 -
Automation rarely works. I've recently been using Webinterpret on Amazon, I believe they do stuff for Ebay too. They appear to do it all manually and have a free trial period. It's been pretty good for me so far.
This is powered by WebInterpret & eBay European Sales Booster team.
They have also listed MV listings which are completely OOS...0 -
Ah. My Amazon listings seem ok, maybe I need to check them some more. My French and Italian are pretty good and I haven't noticed anything. My Amazon descriptions are quite simple though. They've done Spain, Italy, France and Germany, France is the only one that hasn't had sales, so maybe they prefer them badly written!This is powered by WebInterpret & eBay European Sales Booster team.
They have also listed MV listings which are completely OOS....0 -
Ebay ESB uses Web interpret automated translation for the content and human translation for the title. The same applies to Amazon.0
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andycris3107 wrote: »Ebay ESB uses Web interpret automated translation for the content and human translation for the title. The same applies to Amazon.
Yes I saw that, the human who translated the titles has made some silly mistakes though, can't comment on the other languages.
Oh well, will do my best to rectify...
Edit: just had my 1st sale in Germany :-)0
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