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Poll: If you could eliminate one billing model in translation tomorrow, which would it be?
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Portugalsko
Local time: 11:46
Člen (2007)
angličtina -> portugalčina
+ ...
Other Aug 18

Why eliminate one? I don’t see the point. Most of my customers are billed by word for translation and proof-reading and by hour for edition and PEMT. I bill a minimum charge fee to all small translations, although I have agreed on a special rate for two of my clients. One of my clients who usually sends large projects likes being billed a flat-rate per project…

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Josephine Cassar
Federica Scaccabarozzi
Sara Daitch
Angie Garbarino
Maria Laura Curzi
 
Daryo
Daryo
Local time: 11:46
srbčina -> angličtina
+ ...
So ... the worst of them all is perfectly fine? Aug 19

No one sees anything to object to when it comes to the worst of them all, one that is not even mentioned is this multiple choice list?

The one 'billing model in translation' that I personally consider as a running bad joke and an insult to any true professional is in fact perfectly fine?
 


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Poll: If you could eliminate one billing model in translation tomorrow, which would it be?






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