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I've seen a lot of nonsense in this topic.
Ten projects 1000 words each are nearly always more work than one project of 10,000 words.
You get to send more e-mails.
You get to use more glossaries.
You often get to scan through more style guides to find out what kind of dashes they want, – or —, and how they want their numbers.
Arguments based on the alleged longer working hours during a big project are completely absurd, just li... See more I've seen a lot of nonsense in this topic.
Ten projects 1000 words each are nearly always more work than one project of 10,000 words.
You get to send more e-mails.
You get to use more glossaries.
You often get to scan through more style guides to find out what kind of dashes they want, – or —, and how they want their numbers.
Arguments based on the alleged longer working hours during a big project are completely absurd, just like comparisons to retail sales.
And for those who can't do without comparisons, I guarantee you that if you have an accountant run your paperwork, you will not pay 100 times as much for 1000 documents/month as you would pay for 10 documents/month.
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| | | | | Volume discounts: yes or no? | Aug 5, 2010 |
Sandra van Bijsterveld wrote:
Dear colleagues,
One of my clients is asking me if I am prepared to offer volume discounts. They are asking me to give seperate rates (per word) for different volumes, e.g. 1-1000 words, 1000-10000 words etc.
Programs for computer aided translation are not mentioned in the request.
I would be interested to kow you opinion. Is it reasonable to ask/give a discount with bigger volumes, even though a job of 10.000 words might cost me as much time as 5 jobs of 2000 words?
Thanks in advance,
Sandra van Bijsterveld
The Netherlands
What offers your client to you as counterpart? If it's just more work for less money, honestly it seems a nonsense to me. I would ask him directly if he has any valid reason you to work more for less...
| | | | John Fossey
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| Maybe 10% at most | Aug 5, 2010 |
The fact is that a translator can generally translate XXX words per day, more or less whether its an ongoing long project or several small projects. I will sometimes agree to a reduction of at most maybe 10% for a large project, since there is some small savings in reduced accounting and less terminology research. But the actual job of translating doesn't change, in terms of number of words translated per hour/day/week/month.
| | | | Jaroslaw Michalak
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Pablo Bouvier wrote: Sandra van Bijsterveld wrote:
One of my clients is asking me if I am prepared to offer volume discounts. What offers your client to you as counterpart? If it's just more work for less money, honestly it seems a nonsense to me. I would ask him directly if he has any valid reason you to work more for less...
Considering that the original post was made in 2002 (!), the offer described might not longer be valid...
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| Volume discounts: yes or no? | Aug 5, 2010 |
Jabberwock wrote: Pablo Bouvier wrote: Sandra van Bijsterveld wrote:
One of my clients is asking me if I am prepared to offer volume discounts. What offers your client to you as counterpart? If it's just more work for less money, honestly it seems a nonsense to me. I would ask him directly if he has any valid reason you to work more for less... Considering that the original post was made in 2002 (!), the offer described might not longer be valid...
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| | | | | Great Food For Thought | Aug 5, 2010 |
I just signed up to ask a similiar question and I really appreciate all the experienced people giving their views. My client has a 70,000 word job that needs to be translated from English to Spanish. I am located in North Carolina. They initially hired someone in Mexico to do the translation so am wondering if they received a discount due to that. Anyway, they also want to hire someone to review the translation. My question is what the standard charge would be for 70,000 words (the fee I've... See more I just signed up to ask a similiar question and I really appreciate all the experienced people giving their views. My client has a 70,000 word job that needs to be translated from English to Spanish. I am located in North Carolina. They initially hired someone in Mexico to do the translation so am wondering if they received a discount due to that. Anyway, they also want to hire someone to review the translation. My question is what the standard charge would be for 70,000 words (the fee I've always used is fifteen to twenty five cents a word) and what would the standard charge for reviewing this translation? thanks so much for your advice although perhaps I should post this as a separate question since it is a little off topic. Blaire ▲ Collapse
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