Um, is this their way of saying "No can do?"

[Mloot]

I was looking for somewhere to buy the MX440 PCI 128mb video card, specifically asking if the card could be purchased and shipped overseas to USA. I e-mailed a Japenese website which listed the product and they sent me the following response. Perhaps they were using a translation program. Are they basically trying to say "No", and it's just getting garbled in the translation?


From : "BUY SITE shop" <shop@buysite.co.jp>

To : <nesquik@juno.com>


Subject : Re: MX440 PCI 128MB




Dear ...............

Thank you for E-mail. Please continue your favors in Japan having
already sorted it which not is toward the mail order to foreign
countries though MX440 not doing.

 

[Peter]

Yes, that's an Asian attempt at saying "sorry we don't ship to other countries". This mixture of being overly polite and having poor grammar control at the same time makes these letters quite a fun read at times

That "slang" is often seen in technical manuals too ... you get used to it.

 

[Mloot]

Thanks. I thought it might be "No", but I couldn't be sure. Is it just me or do Asian countries get all the good OEM video cards long before we get them here?

 

[Peter]

Try a Radeon 9000 ... PowerColor will have theirs available everywhere by the end of the month, Hercules not far behind.