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Poll: Do you display your rates publicly?
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Robert Forstag
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In the end, it doesn't really matter... Sep 4, 2012

...because, as Philippe points out, potential clients seem not to pay attention to such things.

But I have my rates posted for those that do take notice.
 
Julian Holmes
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Ｓｗｅｅｔ 'n sour Sep 4, 2012

Mario Chavez wrote:
My approach has been to work with the client's budget. One of my most recent clients then told me “There's no budget” in the sense that they have no fixed amount to spend. To which I thought to myself “Sweet!“


When clients over here tell you “There's no budget” they mean that they have no money and want a freebie. Needless to say, my reaction is sour!
 
Muriel Vasconcellos
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Yes - a range Sep 5, 2012

And I never go any lower.
 
Anja C.
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Switzerland
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Yes Sep 17, 2012

Allison Wright wrote:

It keeps the flies away.

The rates as stated do not prevent me from departing from them (besides, I cannot fix the editing in English one). There are a host of factors which go into determining what to charge for a translation. The rates are about as set in stone as one translation is the same as another.
If I have shot myself in the foot, then I am blissfully unaware of it.


Couldn’t have said it better.
 
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