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Freelance translator since 1977
Discounts
I apply two types of discounts: Preferred Customer discount and Repetitive Text discount.
Preferred Customer discount:
This discount is applied to all customers that provide me with a high volume of work. In response to their loyalty, I make a discount of 0.01 euros/word for every 50.000 words of source text they submit to me. This discount has the following characteristics:
- It is accumulative (i.e., I count the total you have submitted, even over different jobs).
- It is language independent (the total number of submitted words does not need to be in a same language, and the discount applies to all language pairs).
- It applies to ALL jobs, starting with the one reaching the discount threshold (e.g., if your first job submission was 100.000 words long, you would benefit straight away from a discount of 0.02 euros/source word).
- It is valid for 1 year. (It does not matter if you send me later a 100-word translation - you still have the same rate as long as over the past year you have reached the discount threshold).
- You can extend it indefinitely (the discount is calculated over the work you have sent me over a period of one year - if you continue sending me work, your preferred customer rates can be maintained indefinitely).
- You can get as low as my Minimum Preferred Rate. You can accumulate discounts until you reach my Minimum Preferred Rate (MPR) - I do NOT work for less than these amounts. Note, however, that the MPR is different for the different languages - this means that you may have reached the maximum discount for a specific language pair, yet still be able to get even more discount on another one!
Repetitive Text discount:
This discount is applied in case your text is highly repetitive text (over 20%). This discount is only applicable to those cases where the original is available in electronic format and processable by a CAT tool such as TRADOS or similar. The discount to be applied is 50% on those words that are either a full repetition or 100% match of the Translation Memory. Note that, should you ask me to participate in a collaborative job (with other translators) or use an existing Translation Memory, the word count would be on the basis of what I translate - I cannot commit to the accuracy/quality of what others have been doing... and too often it means additional work in correcting not-so-good work from other translators.