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Does anyone know how I purchase Henk Sandersons Italian to Swedish IATE package? | That probably makes a lot of difference

Fredrik Pettersson — Tue, 19 May 2026 08:02:00 +0000

Forum: TM-Town
Topic: Does anyone know how I purchase Henk Sandersons Italian to Swedish IATE package?
Poster: Fredrik Pettersson
Post title: That probably makes a lot of difference

Thanks CafeTran Trainer, I remember that now. I tried long time ago to download directly from IATE, but found out the hard way that Henk Sanderson's IATE term bases are exceptional because he has cleaned everything up. But I still cannot access any webpage for payment with my Visa debit card. And there is contact info for Henk Sanderson.

Does anyone know how I purchase Henk Sandersons Italian to Swedish IATE package? | Henk's cleaning

CafeTran Trainer — Tue, 19 May 2026 07:04:00 +0000

Forum: TM-Town
Topic: Does anyone know how I purchase Henk Sandersons Italian to Swedish IATE package?
Poster: CafeTran Trainer
Post title: Henk's cleaning

[quote]Kardas Tradu wrote:

[quote]Fredrik Pettersson wrote:

I previously downloaded two IATE packages via my ProZ membership entitlement. I have now reached that annual limit and would like to purchase the Italian–Swedish IATE package here:

[url removed]

However, the purchase/download link does not appear to work, and although the page mentions credit card payment, I cannot find a checkout option.

Is this a temporary site issue, or is there another way to purchase this package?

[Edited at 2026-05-18 18:56 GMT] [/quote]

Hello,
You can purchase the Italian–Swedish IATE Termbase here:
[url removed]

It is ideal for translators who need fast, searchable terminology resources compatible with CAT tools. [/quote]

It's important that Henk did an awful lot of cleaning to the IATE files.

Does anyone know how I purchase Henk Sandersons Italian to Swedish IATE package? | No membership

Kardas Tradu — Tue, 19 May 2026 05:10:00 +0000

Forum: TM-Town
Topic: Does anyone know how I purchase Henk Sandersons Italian to Swedish IATE package?
Poster: Kardas Tradu
Post title: No membership

[quote]Fredrik Pettersson wrote:

I must pay 40 EUR for a 1-day membership to be able to download the IATE Italian-Swedish term base or 80 EUR for a 1-year membership. [/quote]

No. You can buy IATE termbase in the tmx format here: [url removed] for only 5 euro.

Just follow the above link and choose your combination. If you need another format, please let us know and we can prepare it for you (free of cost). Just drop us a message.

Does anyone know how I purchase Henk Sandersons Italian to Swedish IATE package? | The catch...

Fredrik Pettersson — Tue, 19 May 2026 03:26:00 +0000

Forum: TM-Town
Topic: Does anyone know how I purchase Henk Sandersons Italian to Swedish IATE package?
Poster: Fredrik Pettersson
Post title: The catch...

I must pay 40 EUR for a 1-day membership to be able to download the IATE Italian-Swedish term base or 80 EUR for a 1-year membership.

Does anyone know how I purchase Henk Sandersons Italian to Swedish IATE package? | Alternative source for IATE term bases

Fredrik Pettersson — Tue, 19 May 2026 02:54:00 +0000

Forum: TM-Town
Topic: Does anyone know how I purchase Henk Sandersons Italian to Swedish IATE package?
Poster: Fredrik Pettersson
Post title: Alternative source for IATE term bases

Hi Kardas Tradu,

Thank you for your helpful reply.

That looks like an interesting alternative. I notice that the Italian–Swedish IATE termbase there appears to contain the same number of translation units as the package listed on TM-Town, so it may in fact be the same underlying resource.

At only 5 EUR, this looks like a very attractive option.

Thank you for pointing me to it.

Does anyone know how I purchase Henk Sandersons Italian to Swedish IATE package? | A good alternative to the official IATE packages

Kardas Tradu — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:04:00 +0000

Forum: TM-Town
Topic: Does anyone know how I purchase Henk Sandersons Italian to Swedish IATE package?
Poster: Kardas Tradu
Post title: A good alternative to the official IATE packages

[quote]Fredrik Pettersson wrote:

I previously downloaded two IATE packages via my ProZ membership entitlement. I have now reached that annual limit and would like to purchase the Italian–Swedish IATE package here:

[url removed]

However, the purchase/download link does not appear to work, and although the page mentions credit card payment, I cannot find a checkout option.

Is this a temporary site issue, or is there another way to purchase this package?

[Edited at 2026-05-18 18:56 GMT] [/quote]

Hello,
You can purchase the Italian–Swedish IATE Termbase here:
[url removed]

It is ideal for translators who need fast, searchable terminology resources compatible with CAT tools.

Does anyone know how I purchase Henk Sandersons Italian to Swedish IATE package?

Fredrik Pettersson — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:52:00 +0000

Forum: TM-Town
Topic: Does anyone know how I purchase Henk Sandersons Italian to Swedish IATE package?
Poster: Fredrik Pettersson

I previously downloaded two IATE packages via my ProZ membership entitlement. I have now reached that annual limit and would like to purchase the Italian–Swedish IATE package here:

[url removed]

However, the purchase/download link does not appear to work, and although the page mentions credit card payment, I cannot find a checkout option.

Is this a temporary site issue, or is there another way to purchase this package?

[Edited at 2026-05-18 18:56 GMT]

Is TM-Town useful? | Based on reports I've seen here ...

Siobhán Fulton — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:56:00 +0000

Forum: TM-Town
Topic: Is TM-Town useful?
Poster: Siobhán Fulton
Post title: Based on reports I've seen here ...

... lately it's become a tool for sharpening one's scam detection skills.

Is TM-Town useful? | I was leading

CafeTran Trainer — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 09:03:00 +0000

Forum: TM-Town
Topic: Is TM-Town useful?
Poster: CafeTran Trainer
Post title: I was leading

I was leading in the language pair German > Dutch for several years. I never got a single request from this portal.

[Edited at 2024-10-18 09:04 GMT]

Is TM-Town useful? | Never pay to work

Jorge Rodríguez Rodríguez — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 08:50:00 +0000

Forum: TM-Town
Topic: Is TM-Town useful?
Poster: Jorge Rodríguez Rodríguez
Post title: Never pay to work

[quote]Angélica Florentín wrote:

Hello translators,

I’ve recently been offered a translation project by a company called TM-Team. The project involves translating an English movie script into Spanish.

However, I’ve been asked to make a deposit of £249 to Commercial International Bank (CIB) to process my payment. My Spanish bank advised me to double-check the legitimacy of this process.

Has anyone worked with TM-Team or encountered a similar payment request with CIB Bank? I’d appreciate any insights or experiences you might have to ensure everything is legitimate before proceeding.

Thank you for your help! [/quote]

Hello,

I do not know that company but there is a golden rule in this industry: NEVER PAY TO WORK FOR A CLIENT.

It is not you who has to pay to be able to work. You have to be paid for your work.

It is clearly a scam.

Is TM-Town useful? | Hi Angelica, this is scam (not TM-Town but the request for translation of a movie script)!

Natalie — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 08:49:00 +0000

Forum: TM-Town
Topic: Is TM-Town useful?
Poster: Natalie
Post title: Hi Angelica, this is scam (not TM-Town but the request for translation of a movie script)!

Please read recent threads:
[url removed]
[url removed]
[url removed]

You will find other useful threads in the Scams forum:
[url removed]

[Edited at 2024-10-18 08:51 GMT]

Is TM-Town useful? | Inquiry About TM-Team and Payment Process

Angélica Florentín — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 11:15:00 +0000

Forum: TM-Town
Topic: Is TM-Town useful?
Poster: Angélica Florentín
Post title: Inquiry About TM-Team and Payment Process

Hello translators,

I’ve recently been offered a translation project by a company called TM-Team. The project involves translating an English movie script into Spanish.

However, I’ve been asked to make a deposit of £249 to Commercial International Bank (CIB) to process my payment. My Spanish bank advised me to double-check the legitimacy of this process.

Has anyone worked with TM-Team or encountered a similar payment request with CIB Bank? I’d appreciate any insights or experiences you might have to ensure everything is legitimate before proceeding.

Thank you for your help!

Is TM-Town Legit? | Exact same thing...twice

Sandra Kristen — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 12:40:00 +0000

Forum: TM-Town
Topic: Is TM-Town Legit?
Poster: Sandra Kristen
Post title: Exact same thing...twice

I was scammed twice this way!!! Just a few days appart. I was first contacted through a French website for freelancers on which I have a profile, and the second time through TM-Town.
Both were very well paid, and yes...a bit too good to be true, but I naively I wanted to believe it.
The first asked me to pay a refundable $194, for a so-called AML or KYC verification.
The second asked me to pay £254 for a COT code.
Of course I didn't pay anything, but they kept on coming back to me, even when I told them I knew this was a scam!!! They told me to calm down, and assured me this wasn't a scam...I still didn't pay anything.
Never heard of having to pay a bank to be able to get a wire transfer to get paid.

[Edited at 2024-08-23 16:37 GMT]

Is TM-Town Legit? | How to sue them for non-payment?

Ngoc Pham — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 19:49:00 +0000

Forum: TM-Town
Topic: Is TM-Town Legit?
Poster: Ngoc Pham
Post title: How to sue them for non-payment?

[quote]Daryo wrote:

On few occasions I had to "prove" that my bank account is real/live - to perfectly legitimate, household name companies.

For that purpose, I would be asked to make a payment of ONE PENNY. [£0.01]

"a £184 refundable deposit for verifying someone's account active status" is pure nonsense.
Also, there is no "Mutual Trust Credit Union Bank" there is only a "Mutual Trust Credit Union" a credit union i.e. a non-profit organisation, not a standard commercial bank, based in George Town, Cayman Island.
When you say "the bank requested" did YOU call this credit union on a phone number advertised on their website? Ordinary emails are all to easy to spoof...
As for TM-town, I'm not particularly impressed by the concept behind it, so I never took a closer look. No idea who they let use the site to look for translators.
You could always threaten to sue them for non-payment, as I very much doubt that any court will accept "pay first a deposit of £184" as a valid reason for avoiding to pay you. If you have the time for that. Or IOW if you want to waste more of your time on a hopeless case.
Did the material you have already translated look like something someone might really need? That would be another clue to indicate whether it was a scam from the beginning, just to get £184 off you.
An idea: next time you get a suspicious offer, take the time to do a better due diligence. If you end up spending a week on something unpaid but more interesting for yourself instead of working for free for someone else, nothing lost.

[Edited at 2024-07-12 22:07 GMT] [/quote]

I am in the exact situation. How can I sue them for non-payment for real, not only threatening?

Is TM-Town Legit? | Not convinced

Daryo — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 21:27:00 +0000

Forum: TM-Town
Topic: Is TM-Town Legit?
Poster: Daryo
Post title: Not convinced

"Big company gobbles up little company and takes its (potentially threatening) product off the market."

Yes, it happens. But I doubt it was the motivation. I doubt that TM-Town was at any point in time any kind of serious competitor to Proz. The difference between "modern pastel colours" and "dated design" might be important for some kind of websites meant for the general public or some kind of entertainment, but what matters for sites like Proz is the benefits to users - a flashy/cool/modern design contributing in itself very little to that. No one is bothered if it's a "no-frill" design is the site serves well its purpose.

Is TM-Town Legit? | A brief history of TM-Town

Michael Beijer — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:47:00 +0000

Forum: TM-Town
Topic: Is TM-Town Legit?
Poster: Michael Beijer
Post title: A brief history of TM-Town

A while back, TM-Town was created and caused a bit of a stir. It was a cool idea. Pretty soon, Proz bought it, and soon afterwards it became a Proz.com product. Proz also hired its developer, who worked for Proz for a while. As far as I know, he was responsible for some of the relatively recent website design upgrades. He has since left, and TM-Town lives on, but only barely. No one I know has actually ever used it.

This calls to mind a similar story: a while back, SDL/RWS bought the mysterious enterprise CAT tool, MultiTrans. However, I just found out that they have stopped its development and will no longer be selling it.

Big company gobbles up little company and takes its (potentially threatening) product off the market.

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Is TM-Town Legit? | That's a new element

Daryo — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:14:00 +0000

Forum: TM-Town
Topic: Is TM-Town Legit?
Poster: Daryo
Post title: That's a new element

If the text was "real" and you can be fairly sure who is the client who needed it, contact that final client and request to be paid by them.
see
[url removed] #:~:text=Do%20you%20know%20who%20is%20the%20final%20client%3F

Is TM-Town Legit? | Lesson Learned

Wing HU — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 13:17:00 +0000

Forum: TM-Town
Topic: Is TM-Town Legit?
Poster: Wing HU
Post title: Lesson Learned

[quote]Daryo wrote:

When you say "the bank requested" did YOU call this credit union on a phone number advertised on their website?

[Edited at 2024-07-12 22:07 GMT] [/quote]

The coordinator suggested that I contact their bank via live chat if I did not receive the payment within an hour, saying they would guide me on what to do. At that time, I was almost certain it was a scam because why would I need to contact the bank on their side instead of her doing it? The material I translated indeed looks like something someone might really need, and the content was interesting. From the very beginning, I decided that I would only deliver the second batch once I received the initial payment; otherwise, I would not proceed.

Asking people to deposit refundable money before receiving payment is quite a common scam, but I've never encountered one like this—where you translate a bunch of documents and then get scammed for the money.

Is TM-Town Legit? | Don't ignore doubts

Dan Lucas — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 11:22:00 +0000

Forum: TM-Town
Topic: Is TM-Town Legit?
Poster: Dan Lucas
Post title: Don't ignore doubts

[quote]Wing HU wrote:
(Sounded too good to be true)
...
Despite doubts, I worked on the project for seven days.[/quote]
If something sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
And if you have doubts, there is usually a valid reason.
Pay heed to those misgivings in the future.

Regards,
Dan

Is TM-Town Legit? | Scam

Lieven Malaise — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 10:16:00 +0000

Forum: TM-Town
Topic: Is TM-Town Legit?
Poster: Lieven Malaise
Post title: Scam

[quote]Wing HU wrote:
The bank requested a £184 refundable deposit for verifying my account's active status, which seemed highly suspicious.[/quote]

Golden rule: never pay to get paid. This is a scam without any doubt. There are simply no job offers that are (even almost) too good to be true, they don't exist. Learn and move on.

Is TM-Town Legit? | TM-Town

Jean Dimitriadis — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 09:54:00 +0000

Forum: TM-Town
Topic: Is TM-Town Legit?
Poster: Jean Dimitriadis
Post title: TM-Town

If you put an ad for your services in a specialized newspaper, and a client contacts you and it turns up to be a scammer,.would you blame the newspaper?

TM-Town is owned by ProZ for a while now.

It's legit in that respect, although I consider it like a still-born and personally don't think there will be many customers (let alone legit ones) coming your way through it.

Whatever the platform, due diligence is required to minimize risks.

Unfortunately, from your description, it sounds to be very likely a scam.

Best of wishes

[Edited at 2024-07-12 12:44 GMT]

Is TM-Town Legit? | Makes little sense

Daryo — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 05:28:00 +0000

Forum: TM-Town
Topic: Is TM-Town Legit?
Poster: Daryo
Post title: Makes little sense

On few occasions I had to "prove" that my bank account is real/live - to perfectly legitimate, household name companies.

For that purpose, I would be asked to make a payment of ONE PENNY. [£0.01]

"a £184 refundable deposit for verifying someone's account active status" is pure nonsense.
Also, there is no "Mutual Trust Credit Union Bank" there is only a "Mutual Trust Credit Union" a credit union i.e. a non-profit organisation, not a standard commercial bank, based in George Town, Cayman Island.
When you say "the bank requested" did YOU call this credit union on a phone number advertised on their website? Ordinary emails are all to easy to spoof...
As for TM-town, I'm not particularly impressed by the concept behind it, so I never took a closer look. No idea who they let use the site to look for translators.
You could always threaten to sue them for non-payment, as I very much doubt that any court will accept "pay first a deposit of £184" as a valid reason for avoiding to pay you. If you have the time for that. Or IOW if you want to waste more of your time on a hopeless case.
Did the material you have already translated look like something someone might really need? That would be another clue to indicate whether it was a scam from the beginning, just to get £184 off you.
An idea: next time you get a suspicious offer, take the time to do a better due diligence. If you end up spending a week on something unpaid but more interesting for yourself instead of working for free for someone else, nothing lost.

[Edited at 2024-07-12 22:07 GMT]

Is TM-Town Legit?

Wing HU — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 07:41:00 +0000

Forum: TM-Town
Topic: Is TM-Town Legit?
Poster: Wing HU

Hello everyone,

I recently joined TM-Town through Proz.com, believing it to be a trustworthy platform. Last week, I was contacted by a Human Resources Coordinator from Task Talent through TM-Town, offering a high-paying translation project. The coordinator told me to start working on it immediately without providing any specific requirements or signing any NDA. The arrangement was to receive payment after each batch of translations. (Sounded too good to be true)

Despite doubts, I worked on the project for seven days. When I didn't receive the initial payment, the coordinator told me to contact the bank from their side, Mutual Trust Credit Union Bank. The bank requested a £184 refundable deposit for verifying my account's active status, which seemed highly suspicious.

I stopped working on the project and informed Proz staff. The coordinator contacted me again, insisting the payment was pending unless I paid the deposit, assuring me it was not a scam. However, I still distrust this process.

Has anyone else had similar experiences with TM-Town or Task Talent? Is TM-Town a legitimate platform for translators?

Thank you for your insights.

What could you tell me about TM-Town? | Bye

CafeTran Trainer — Mon, 22 May 2023 14:56:00 +0000

Forum: TM-Town
Topic: What could you tell me about TM-Town?
Poster: CafeTran Trainer
Post title: Bye

[quote]Hans Lenting wrote:

Even deleting my account isn't possible. [/quote]

Just tried to log in and obviously my account has been deleted. Good!

I must say, this is one of the weirdest portals I've ever seen. The info email address is still linked to the developer, who has left TM-Town many years ago.

Although my rank was #18 I never had one single inquiry via this site.

[Edited at 2023-05-22 14:57 GMT]

What could you tell me about TM-Town? | @Hans

Robert Rietvelt — Mon, 22 May 2023 11:48:00 +0000

Forum: TM-Town
Topic: What could you tell me about TM-Town?
Poster: Robert Rietvelt
Post title: @Hans

[quote]Hans Lenting wrote:

Even deleting my account isn't possible. [/quote]

If it is possible, I also don't know how, but you can delete your TM's.

[Edited at 2023-05-22 12:06 GMT]

What could you tell me about TM-Town? | Looks like it is broken!

CafeTran Trainer — Mon, 22 May 2023 08:56:00 +0000

Forum: TM-Town
Topic: What could you tell me about TM-Town?
Poster: CafeTran Trainer
Post title: Looks like it is broken!

Even deleting my account isn't possible.

What could you tell me about TM-Town? | Always thought it was a bad idea

Dan Lucas — Sun, 21 May 2023 06:17:00 +0000

Forum: TM-Town
Topic: What could you tell me about TM-Town?
Poster: Dan Lucas
Post title: Always thought it was a bad idea

[quote]Hans Lenting wrote:
I just queried TM-Town for a very generic term and it told me that the term wasn't found. How come?[/quote]
Probably just died of neglect. The concept of uploading TMs is surely only viable in a world in which NDAs don't exist and one's clients are happy to have the content of their documents made public and shared with others!

In my world, that just doesn't happen. My clients pay me to be discreet and to keep the details of my work confidential. I'm sure there are some clients who don't about such matters, but I imagine that the majority of such clients aren't offering attractive rates.

Dan

What could you tell me about TM-Town? | Is it still active?

CafeTran Trainer — Sat, 20 May 2023 19:44:00 +0000

Forum: TM-Town
Topic: What could you tell me about TM-Town?
Poster: CafeTran Trainer
Post title: Is it still active?

I just queried TM-Town for a very generic term and it told me that the term wasn't found. How come?

What could you tell me about TM-Town? | Update the Trados plug-in

CafeTran Trainer — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 02:54:00 +0000

Forum: TM-Town
Topic: What could you tell me about TM-Town?
Poster: CafeTran Trainer
Post title: Update the Trados plug-in

Will there ever be a plug-in for Trados 2022?

The current version is for Trados 2015. That is 7 years ago…

Edit: I have created a support request.

[Edited at 2022-11-13 06:29 GMT]

Is TM-Town useful? | Maybe ...

Daryo — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 11:22:00 +0000

Forum: TM-Town
Topic: Is TM-Town useful?
Poster: Daryo
Post title: Maybe ...

[quote]Matthias Brombach wrote:

I have a bad feeling that this service, which was super hyped a couple of years ago here on proz, has been very useful for DeepL and/or other linguistical AI databases, which have led to the massive change from CAT based translation jobs to "post editing" jobs, but perhaps I'm wrong? [/quote]

Although technically mining that data could be easily done, I don't think that whatever is in TM-Town would be really that useful.

There is already in the public domain a HUGE corpus far far more valuable for that purpose, made of whole structured collections of documents (not of out-of-context free-floating terms) already translated in several languages and triple checked before publishing. By United Nations, by the European Union, by a myriad of various other international organisations ... and there is also a multitude of commercial websites published in several versions in different languages.

Sorry for any bruised egos, but compared to all that, whatever could be found in TM-Town would be no more than a speck of dust of very marginal usefulness for DeepL & Co ...

The doubt I have about TM-Town is of a completely different nature, as I find the whole concept fundamentally unconvincing. A list of terms you had to deal with in the past is not an indicator of capacity to research new terms, which I think is a far more important indicator of the potential to achieve a better quality of translation. And it's definitely not an indicator of pleasant/unpleasant to read writing style.

[Edited at 2021-12-15 11:27 GMT]