Sara Freitas-Maltaverne wrote:
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" As you can guess, it was their justification for requesting 27,000 words in 7 days at my regular rate.
Well, I got the deadline extended and agreed to do the job, but I'm wondering how far this new trend is going to go!
Thanks again for your reply. I love it!
Regards,
Sara
I remember ruining a perfect business with a well established, well paying agency during my green days. I was still freshman -but one hell of a translator, and absolutely their favorite. They were outsorcing me a lot of projects and paying me on time, every Friday weekly!!! Soon after they asked for a discount for a specific project only. Fearing I'd lose such a great business I had gone down with the price. Than they asked a discount on over all rates and I accepted. Deeper discounts meant more work to be done to maintain my standard of living. And the quality has gone down with the price. It was inevitable.
Worst thing is their traffic affected quality of the work I did for the other agencies as well. I realised my mistake. But no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't raise my price to its otiginal level. So I refused to work with the agency.