Poll: Have agencies you work with switched to machine translation and asked you to lower your rates? Autor de la hebra: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Have agencies you work with switched to machine translation and asked you to lower your rates?".
This poll was originally submitted by Rita Utt. View the poll results »
[Subject edited by staff or moderator 2019-04-20 16:31 GMT]
| | | | neilmac
España
Local time: 23:55
español al inglés
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However, I am fortunate enough not to have to rely on working with any agencies at all.
Nowadays, I occasionally collaborate with two. One of them has, or used to have, a poor BB rating, and I think it may be banned from posting on proz; the reasons given were late payment, because their standard terms were 90 days, and they sometimes paid later than that. However, they have always paid me on time. so I saw no reason to deny them service, although I've only done one job for them in the pa... See more However, I am fortunate enough not to have to rely on working with any agencies at all.
Nowadays, I occasionally collaborate with two. One of them has, or used to have, a poor BB rating, and I think it may be banned from posting on proz; the reasons given were late payment, because their standard terms were 90 days, and they sometimes paid later than that. However, they have always paid me on time. so I saw no reason to deny them service, although I've only done one job for them in the past three years or so.That was in January; I actually forgot to bill them until March, and they paid me a couple of weeks after I sent the bill. So maybe they're now reformed characters, I don't know. ▲ Collapse
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I’ve received this last week an email from an agency I haven’t accepted projects for a long while (rates proposed are now about half what they were initially) announcing that they were moving to PEMT…
| | | | | Yes, and I dropped them | Apr 20, 2019 |
One client went over to machine translation, and I was sorry, because I had enjoyed working with them on some interesting projects. I did try one or two PEMT projects for them, but when they cut the rate, I decided it was really not what I had signed up for. I was revising my list of clients and partly retiring, so it was quite easy to add them to the list I was saying goodbye to!
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DZiW (X)
Ucrania
inglés al ruso
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No, because I don't work with agencies.
| | | | Mario Freitas 
Brasil
Local time: 18:55
Miembro 2014
inglés al portugués
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I've heard of a few agencies that have done that. They are probably bankrupt now. It's too early to switch to MT and PEMT. It may happen sooner or later, but tright now, agencies that do that are way too early in their hunger to make money.
| | | | Rita Utt
Francia
Local time: 23:55
inglés al alemán
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| Maybe we got the same mail | Apr 22, 2019 |
Teresa Borges wrote:
I’ve received this last week an email from an agency I haven’t accepted projects for a long while (rates proposed are now about half what they were initially) announcing that they were moving to PEMT…
I only worked for them once or twice before that because their prices where to low.
The funny thing are their training guidelines where they ask you not to change any terminology "do not over-revise" (if you've ever used machine translation, you'll appreciate the joke) ...
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