it's a business model they have chosen. Or they are very bad at selling their services.
Jeff Whittaker wrote:
no matter much they pretend, they KNOW their rates are miserable, either because they are charging the end client "normal" rates and paying their translators next to nothing or because they cannot compete and get projects at a higher rate. If they COULD collect more from their clients, they most definitely WOULD. They have priced their "services" at a rate that is not designed to provide quality, but rather to undercut other bottom-feeding competitors targeting low-information clients.
Either way, they know what they are doing. With rare exceptions, no one can "edit" 8,000 words of machine translation in 8 hours and consistently produce anything that resembles quality. Those that think they can, and there are people who genuinely believe that they can, simply do not know how to translate. But sadly, you will never convince them otherwise; they will die with that delusion.
Just keep delivering quality on-time work to your clients and those clients who care, know the difference and want quality will continue to use and seek out your services and pay you a living wage.
[Edited at 2024-03-10 18:20 GMT]
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