I was the other day in Albania and saw this store. What tf are german computers?

by WarmerEistee

24 comments
  1. The sign next to it says “postcards from elsewhere”. I’m intrigued.

  2. Go to Bogota Colombia, they have a whole quarter of German opticians, German drugstores, German mechanics…. No one speaks German though.

  3. In Poland you find shops „chemia niemiecka”, German cleaning chemistry. Somehow they got the impression, Germans have the best cleaning stuff, so it is just a synonym for premium cleaning chemistry.

    Perhaps in Albania they had the impression of German Computers sometime in there history and it became a synonym for „quality computer stuff“.

  4. Probably post-lease equipment imported from Germany.

  5. Albanian here, in Albania if you put the German flag to something it is immediately a premium product and believed to last more. There are many shoe shops that sell cheap Chinese knockoff Nike and they sell them for 80€ just because the store says that they come from Germany.

    Edit: to answer the question these are just custom build cheap pc with no relation whatsoever to Germany.

  6. They say they import used computers from Germany and the sell them at a discounted price in Albania. Funny thing is that I bought my first gaming computer there (the shop in Tirana) and while it was shit, it was still the best price/quality ratio I could find back then in 2019 in Albania. The country has hands down the worst market for computers’ hardware and feeds on people generally having no idea on specs thinking that expensive is equal to good performance.

  7. It’s a store that sells usually used PCs and laptops imported from Germany

  8. this is a store selling computers from the German brands like Apple, Dell, HP, Lenovo etc. and the Albanian people are very happy because they’re really great brands 🙂

  9. I suppose they sell them with the german keyboard layout (QWERTZ and Umlauts ä, ö, ü)

  10. German companies, when their computers are out of warranty, get rid of them (sell them for cheap, throw them out, donate them, you name it).

    Some people buy these for cheap, import them in Albania and sell them for a profit.

    At least that’s how it started. No idea if they still do that now or if something changed.

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