Auto1 – A young Berlin startup valued at $2.8B
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Auto1 – A young Berlin startup valued at $2.8B
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Re: Auto1 – A young Berlin startup valued at $2.8B
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The only things I ever used (and heard of) for used cars that look legit are mobile.de and autoscout24.de. Auto1? This sounds very new - they're not known in Germany or Poland (disclaimer: I'm Polish working in Germany).
Edit: looking a bit more into their website - they do B2B auto1.com and B2C autohero.com. Why everyone insist on calling a simple company a "start-up"? It's just normal company, nothing interesting there ;)
Re: Auto1 – A young Berlin startup valued at $2.8B
#3Welcome to .com bubble v2.0 The only things I ever used (and heard of) for used cars that look legit are mobile.de and autoscout24.de. Auto1? This sounds very new - they're not known in Germany or Poland (disclaimer: I'm Polish working in Germany). Edit: looking a bit more into their website - they do B2B auto1.com and B2C autohero.com. Why everyone insist on calling a simple company a "start-up"? It's just normal co…
They also run wirkaufendeinauto.de, which practically everybody in Germany knows due to their omnipresent marketing.
Re: Auto1 – A young Berlin startup valued at $2.8B
#4Welcome to .com bubble v2.0 The only things I ever used (and heard of) for used cars that look legit are mobile.de and autoscout24.de. Auto1? This sounds very new - they're not known in Germany or Poland (disclaimer: I'm Polish working in Germany). Edit: looking a bit more into their website - they do B2B auto1.com and B2C autohero.com. Why everyone insist on calling a simple company a "start-up"? It's just normal co…
They also run wirkaufendeinauto.de, which practically everybody in Germany knows due to their omnipresent marketing.
Acknowledged, but I must be reluctant to their marketing - seriously never heard of it.
Re: Auto1 – A young Berlin startup valued at $2.8B
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
They also run wirkaufendeinauto.de, which practically everybody in Germany knows due to their omnipresent marketing.
Acknowledged, but I must be reluctant to their marketing - seriously never heard of it.
You should watch more stupid-tv. WirKaufenDeinAuto is basically a stupids-scam which buys your car for much less than it's worth. That's why they only advertise on poor-mans-channels where are enough people that need money fast enough so they will throw away money.
The german word for that is 'Bauernfängerei'
Re: Auto1 – A young Berlin startup valued at $2.8B
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Acknowledged, but I must be reluctant to their marketing - seriously never heard of it.
You should watch more stupid-tv. WirKaufenDeinAuto is basically a stupids-scam which buys your car for much less than it's worth. That's why they only advertise on poor-mans-channels where are enough people that need money fast enough so they will throw away money. The german word for that is 'Bauernfängerei'
Can you explain Bauernfängerei a bit more? The direct english translation seems to be "Egg Catching Farmer", and I don't understand why that represents con artist / confidence trick.
Re: Auto1 – A young Berlin startup valued at $2.8B
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
You should watch more stupid-tv. WirKaufenDeinAuto is basically a stupids-scam which buys your car for much less than it's worth. That's why they only advertise on poor-mans-channels where are enough people that need money fast enough so they will throw away money. The german word for that is 'Bauernfängerei'
Can you explain Bauernfängerei a bit more? The direct english translation seems to be "Egg Catching Farmer", and I don't understand why that represents con artist / confidence trick.
The problem with German is here that it concatenates words without any indication what the break is :)
Your translation is for BauernFängerEi ("farmer catching egg", which doesn't make too much sense), while this is BauernFängerei ("farmer catching/trapping"). "...erei" is similar to "...ery" in English.
I guess the saying comes from the prejudice that farmers are not the smartest people, and therefore people trying to catch/trap/trick/prey on stupid people are called "farmer/peasant catchers".
Re: Auto1 – A young Berlin startup valued at $2.8B
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
You should watch more stupid-tv. WirKaufenDeinAuto is basically a stupids-scam which buys your car for much less than it's worth. That's why they only advertise on poor-mans-channels where are enough people that need money fast enough so they will throw away money. The german word for that is 'Bauernfängerei'
Can you explain Bauernfängerei a bit more? The direct english translation seems to be "Egg Catching Farmer", and I don't understand why that represents con artist / confidence trick.
It is the first time hearing this word(seems to be an older word ) but a better translation would be something like "Farmer trap". According to Wikipedia it originated in a war where mercenary groups got farmers drunk and had them sign contracts to have them work for them.
Nowadays it's just used as a word to describe a scam where you trick people that don't really understand what they are agreeing to sign a favorable (to the scammer) contract, etc.
Re: Auto1 – A young Berlin startup valued at $2.8B
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
You should watch more stupid-tv. WirKaufenDeinAuto is basically a stupids-scam which buys your car for much less than it's worth. That's why they only advertise on poor-mans-channels where are enough people that need money fast enough so they will throw away money. The german word for that is 'Bauernfängerei'
Can you explain Bauernfängerei a bit more? The direct english translation seems to be "Egg Catching Farmer", and I don't understand why that represents con artist / confidence trick.
"Bauernfängerei" is just another german meaning for deception and has a historical background(farmers were lured into signing a contract to fight in the army).
Re: Auto1 – A young Berlin startup valued at $2.8B
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you explain Bauernfängerei a bit more? The direct english translation seems to be "Egg Catching Farmer", and I don't understand why that represents con artist / confidence trick.
The problem with German is here that it concatenates words without any indication what the break is :) Your translation is for BauernFängerEi ("farmer catching egg", which doesn't make too much sense), while this is BauernFängerei ("farmer catching/trapping"). "...erei" is similar to "...ery" in English. I guess the saying comes from the prejudice that farmers are not the smartest people, and therefore people trying…
Ahh! I thought the farmer was the one doing the catching, not the one being caught. (I'd started dreaming up an idiom about "as easy as catching eggs from a trapped hen".) Thank you!