| Pages in topic: < [1 2] | Poll: As a rule, how much would you be willing to translate or review for free as a favor? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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Michael Newton 
United States
Local time: 23:51
Japanese to English
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| review for free? | Apr 25, 2022 |
If you review for an agency, you may be giving a potential replacement a foot up.
| | | | Mario Freitas
Brazil
Local time: 00:51
Member (2014)
English to Portuguese
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Of course this depends on the client. The question is incomplete.
For a regular client that sends me jobs all the time for many years, of course I'm not going to charge for eventual phrases they ask me to translate by e-mail.
For potential clients with a good review in the Blue Board, I'm willing to do a test of up to 300 words.
In most other cases, I guess I woudn't do it.
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Assuming the numbers in the options refer to words, they are all immaterial.
If I do a free translation as a favour for a friend or family member, I don't care whether it's 25 words or 250. If we start getting into the thousands, then maybe that would make a difference, but as far as I'm concerned all the options offered in this poll are equivalent.
| | | | neilmac
Spain
Local time: 05:51
Spanish to English
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I've told this story before but here it is again:
A few years ago, a young former acrobat from my local area suffering from spinal injuries asked me to help out by translating a website for a spinal injury related website, featuring a well-known researcher from a respected institution in the region, who had apparently achieved stunning breakthroughs in spinal surgery, and was on the point of starting to work on human patients. As it seemed like a good cause, I did the job, which would usua... See more I've told this story before but here it is again:
A few years ago, a young former acrobat from my local area suffering from spinal injuries asked me to help out by translating a website for a spinal injury related website, featuring a well-known researcher from a respected institution in the region, who had apparently achieved stunning breakthroughs in spinal surgery, and was on the point of starting to work on human patients. As it seemed like a good cause, I did the job, which would usually have cost a few hundred euros, free of charge. A few months later, I was surprised to find that said lead researcher was now involved in a fraud case, litigated by families who believe they had been misled with claims of a miracle treatment. I don’t recall how the case ended up, and it may still be ongoing, giving the slowness of the Spanish justice system. I’ve also done the odd freebie for what I considered deserving cases in the past, but that website was the biggest. ▲ Collapse
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danya
Local time: 06:51
English to Russian
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| I answered assuming words as a unit of measure | Apr 26, 2022 |
I am ready to do some work pro bono (and have done so in the past), if it's for a friend (a CV or an e-mail) or if it's an interesting project (some creative copy-writing, etc.). It should take me an hour or an hour and a half at most, otherwise I would probably turn it down
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