Looking to sell my trados 5.5 only a month old Thread poster: abborre
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abborre
Denmark
Local time: 02:58
Norwegian to English
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Does anyone have any ideas for how to sell a trados software package. I purchased it a month ago and the agency that requested I purchase now does not give me any work.
Any tips for selling it will be greatly appreciated.
| | | | | Not recommended:) | Apr 18, 2003 |
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On 2003-04-17 18:52, sandersson wrote:
Does anyone have any ideas for how to sell a trados software package. I purchased it a month ago and the agency that requested I purchase now does not give me any work.
Any tips for selling it will be greatly appreciated.
Sandersson,
It is a greatest asset in your bin, get acquainted with this software and... See more Quote:
On 2003-04-17 18:52, sandersson wrote:
Does anyone have any ideas for how to sell a trados software package. I purchased it a month ago and the agency that requested I purchase now does not give me any work.
Any tips for selling it will be greatly appreciated.
Sandersson,
It is a greatest asset in your bin, get acquainted with this software and earn money!
I\'d rather not to advise you, because the situation may be different, but if this is not the last money you invested, just wait, it will pay back very quickly!
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| | | | Henk Peelen 
Netherlands
Local time: 02:58
Member (2002)
German to Dutch
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SITE LOCALIZER | I'd like to say: enjoy the benefits of Trados | Apr 18, 2003 |
The only thing you need to use Trados (besides Trados itself) is a source file instead of a hard copy of the source text. Also if the client doesn\'t ask you to use Trados, you can still use it and enjoy the benefits. The greatest of them are in my opinion:
* A lot of clients require you to use a CAT, often Trados
* It gives you a professional image
* Trados breaks lonf paragraphs into easy translatable segments (very often sentences)
* A great advantage s... See more The only thing you need to use Trados (besides Trados itself) is a source file instead of a hard copy of the source text. Also if the client doesn\'t ask you to use Trados, you can still use it and enjoy the benefits. The greatest of them are in my opinion:
* A lot of clients require you to use a CAT, often Trados
* It gives you a professional image
* Trados breaks lonf paragraphs into easy translatable segments (very often sentences)
* A great advantage some people overlook: editing/proofreading you own document makes much more sense with Trados, while you can still compare source and target text.
* And of course the comfort of the matches and the concordance (F3 in your Workbench)
In case I should know that I would stop translating the end of this year for some reason, I would nevertheless buy Trados (but other people use it only when the client requires them to do so).
My two cents,
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| | | | Marijke Mayer
Netherlands
Local time: 02:58
Dutch to English
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| the concordance function alone is invaluable | Apr 19, 2003 |
Don\'t worry, your purchase will eventually pay off, rather sooner than later. Unless you intend to buy a better package on the market, I\'d hang on to Trados. The agency you deal with is not the only agency in the world. Even though the program is not really very user-friendly, there will be other work with Trados as it has, albeit a little undeservedly, reached the status of industry standard. Like Henk, I use it for all my work. I use some shortcuts though. After making sure that all the TUs ... See more Don\'t worry, your purchase will eventually pay off, rather sooner than later. Unless you intend to buy a better package on the market, I\'d hang on to Trados. The agency you deal with is not the only agency in the world. Even though the program is not really very user-friendly, there will be other work with Trados as it has, albeit a little undeservedly, reached the status of industry standard. Like Henk, I use it for all my work. I use some shortcuts though. After making sure that all the TUs are in my TM (i.,e. all the units have to come back \' green\'), I just \'wash\' off the codes by \' dipping it into Wordpad, rather than cleaning off the codes through the program, as it is faster. Most agencies want the \' dirty\' files anyhow, so it\'s easier to edit for them. To them the chore of cleaning off the codes (yikes!) the regular way.
The second positive thing I have to say about Trados is, although all translation software has this function, that I use the Concordance function each and every day. It is invaluable as a database to compare sentence structures with the words used. I have about 40 thousand odd entries, and it remembers what I did 2 years ago, whereas I don\'t, when I started using Trados. Then you can add nice sentences you come across, new terms, words and combinations. Tag them accordingly and import them into your memory bank (TM). You can always convert your TMs into other databases.
Good luck!
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| I am interested | May 5, 2003 |
Hi Monika,
I am Valentina Cafiero, an Italian freelance translators I am interested in buying your Trados 5 and I would like to know how much is it and if I can use it in Italian.
Let me know ASAP.
Thanks in advance. Best regards,
Valentina Cafiero
| | | | | translator (de/en>it) | Sep 9, 2003 |
I'm looking for Trados, any version, and could spend about €200,00.
Hope you're interested,
Bye
Iolanda
sandersson wrote:
Does anyone have any ideas for how to sell a trados software package. I purchased it a month ago and the agency that requested I purchase now does not give me any work.
Any tips for selling it will be greatly appreciated.
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Local time: 02:58
English to German
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| there are others looking for trados | Feb 5, 2004 |
Meatball wrote:
Does anyone have any ideas for how to sell a trados software package. I purchased it a month ago and the agency that requested I purchase now does not give me any work.
Any tips for selling it will be greatly appreciated. Hi! in the same category slightly at the beginning there are a couple of people looking for trados. But I find it strange that the agency doesn´t give you any work because you have purchased Trados. brandis
| | | | | I will be willing to buy it... | Feb 5, 2004 |
Please contact me... either by email or by phone... Thanks.
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| Buying Trados | Feb 7, 2004 |
Please, if you still have it, contact me, with a quote. I am interested in buying it.
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