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Offline Wesley Myers

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Playmobil Website Problem ...
« on: September 20, 2011, 19:14:53 »
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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Re: Playmobil Website Problem ...
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2011, 19:22:35 »
Quote from: Wesley Myers on September 20, 2011, 19:14:53
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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Re: Playmobil Website Problem ...
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2011, 19:38:43 »
Quote from: BlackPearl2006 on September 20, 2011, 19:22:35
Left-over biproduct of colonial times methinks.

Imperial times, actually ;).
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Re: Playmobil Website Problem ...
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2011, 19:42:53 »
Quote from: Wesley Myers on September 20, 2011, 19:14:53
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.

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Re: Playmobil Website Problem ...
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2011, 20:11:01 »
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  :). 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?:?
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Re: Playmobil Website Problem ...
« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2011, 20:13:58 »
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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Re: Playmobil Website Problem ...
« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2011, 20:20:14 »
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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Re: Playmobil Website Problem ...
« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2011, 20:23:43 »
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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Re: Playmobil Website Problem ...
« Reply #8 on: September 20, 2011, 20:39:53 »
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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Re: Playmobil Website Problem ...
« Reply #9 on: September 20, 2011, 20:46:26 »
Quote from: Wesley Myers on September 20, 2011, 19:14:53
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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