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Thread poster: Marion van Venrooij-Rooijmans
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I'm afraid May 27, 2007

Danae Ferri wrote:

I applied to a company that was looking for Spanish into Greek translators, they asked me to send them my CV and they immediately wanted me to translate for them. They also kindly informed me that the price was of 0,02 Euros gross!! Of course I refused to do it, explaining to them that this was far less than what I charge. They argued that they count on the volume of the translation.. But you know what's even worse? I'm sure that they found someone who accepted, as always..


I'm afraid these agencies will work forever because there always seems to be someone who accepts. Like in every sector of work, "undercutting" is a negative factor for the whole professional commumity.Generally, I don't give discounts and adopt the "if its a huge company with over 15 employees, go high..." policy. With students I might have to lower the rates a little or refuse anyway because they won't accept.

Rob
 
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