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General => News => Topic started by: Wesley Myers on September 20, 2011, 19:14:53
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I just noticed today a serious hassle with the Playmobil website. I can no longer navigate the German site. It automatically redirects me to the Canadian playmobil website (which is now no longer available when you type in playmobil.ca, by the way...).
I'm using Internet Explorer.
It does work using Safari (to navigate the German site). (Why do we say "German" when the real word is "Deutsche"?!)
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I just noticed today a serious hassle with the Playmobil website. I can no longer navigate the German site. It automatically redirects me to the Canadian playmobil website (which is now no longer available when you type in playmobil.ca, by the way...).
I'm using Internet Explorer.
It does work using Safari (to navigate the German site). (Why do we say "German" when the real word is "Deutsche"?!)
It comes from the term "Germania" used by the Romans to describe the region (and peoples) found east of the Rhine and north of the Danube rivers. So it is the Romanized term for Deutchland. I'm still not quite sure why the Romanized form of any country or place has become the world-wide "standard." Why don't we just call the countries by their true names? Left-over biproduct of colonial times methinks.
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Left-over biproduct of colonial times methinks.
Imperial times, actually ;).
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I just noticed today a serious hassle with the Playmobil website. I can no longer navigate the German site. It automatically redirects me to the Canadian playmobil website (which is now no longer available when you type in playmobil.ca, by the way...).
This is HORRID. WHY IN HADES do they assume to know what the user wants?!
The Others take them. If it holds, we might need a program to hide (or fake) our IP. This is ridiculous. Happened to me on the Bon Jovi site. Instead of the normal american version, I got a crap pt version. To make it worse, it wasn't even pt-pt, it was pt-br. Only go there when I must. Have to log in to make it assume english. Bah. So much trouble. Can't they just leave it be. If I wanted it in another language, I CAN click and choose. Gods.
(pet peeve)
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We could always use a link from a member who has access to the German website, like this one Hadaque used when talking about the new Specials Plus: http://www.playmobil.de/on/demandware.store/Sites-DE-Site/de_DE/Product-Show?pid=4762&cgid=Special (http://www.playmobil.de/on/demandware.store/Sites-DE-Site/de_DE/Product-Show?pid=4762&cgid=Special) :). It is too bad that we can't go directly to the German website ::). If they think they know which website we want to go to, why don't they just eliminate the screen where you choose your country :eh?:?
Ace :brownhair:
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If you clear your cache and cookies then you should be able to go there the regular way again... a few days ago my browser told me that the playmobil site wanted to know where I was from and asked if I wanted to tell it... I said no... :) but perhaps your browser told the site without asking you?
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I've just accessed the site with Firefox and it doesn't care where I select - it takes me there. As has been suggested, sounds more a browser problem than a website one.
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I'm using firefox too, and I can go to the intro screen, but once I click to go to the products screen it redirects me to the usa site with no warning. :-\
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Some members on klickywelt posted about major changes on the German website today so maybe "foreign" users are redirected to keep down the traffic while the reconstruction is "under way". Just a guess :-\ .
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Why do we say "German" when the real word is "Deutsche"?!
To the French, we are "les Allemands" (actually one of many "german-speaking" tribes whose home was close to the French border).
To the English, we are "the Germans" as a group of tribes was actually called by the Romans (The Romans being in England AND Southern Germany at the same time (100-300 AD methinks) the name may come from that period.
The word "Deutsch" comes from an 1500 year old word "tiutisc" meaning "the people" (as is the case in a large number of languages) and modern Italian has taken "tedesco" (=a german) from that.
Linguistics are always a tricky business.
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To the French, we are "les Allemands" (actually one of many "german-speaking" tribes whose home was close to the French border).
To the English, we are "the Germans" as a group of tribes was actually called by the Romans (The Romans being in England AND Southern Germany at the same time (100-300 AD methinks) the name may come from that period.
The word "Deutsch" comes from an 1500 year old word "tiutisc" meaning "the people" (as is the case in a large number of languages) and modern Italian has taken "tedesco" (=a german) from that.
Linguistics are always a tricky business.
And for English actors you are "ze Zermans" ;D
For Basil Fawlty however, you'd still be "the Krauts" :uhoh: :P
(btw, English are called "redbeafs" by the French and the French are called "sansculottes" by the Flemish" & "frogs" by the English. We Flemish also call the Dutch "kezen"...not sure what they call us ??? 8})
On topic: I use Chrome and can momentarily still go to the German page. Perhaps because I've created an account there a while ago using my usual IP-adres (to see the prices, though off course I can't order anything from where I live.)...?
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I have no problem with the explorer nor firefox
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I'm on Mozilla Firefox, so it might only be a problem for Explorer - I'm not being redirected to the Canadian page...
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If you clear your cache and cookies then you should be able to go there the regular way again... a few days ago my browser told me that the playmobil site wanted to know where I was from and asked if I wanted to tell it... I said no... :) but perhaps your browser told the site without asking you?
Nope. That never happened. I thought of the cache too.
My biggest gripe is the playmobil.ca url not working. Now I have to waste extra time going to playmobil.com then selecting the tiny icon for English for Canuckistan. A real pain in the ... bottom.
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My biggest gripe is the playmobil.ca url not working. Now I have to waste extra time going to playmobil.com then selecting the tiny icon for English for Canuckistan. A real pain in the ... bottom.
This is maybe a very stupid solution, but it worked for me. Do you type "playmobil.ca" in the address bar?
Try using "www.playmobil.ca"
That was what made it work for me, and it looks that it works for .ca from my side as well. Yeah I am lazy and rather not type the "www." but I think it's faster then waiting for the page to load and then clicking your appropriate flag.
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it works today...I'm in. :)
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When I type in .de, I still get redirected to the US when I click products. However, I went in through a link from here, as Ace suggested, and was able to get to the german products page and bookmarked it. When I go in through the bookmark, it let's me stay.