Misers in the Net
Does anybody really believe that the less you pay the better you get? This very idea seems to be sheer nonsense. Nevertheless, an awful lot of people (I mean so-called buyers on different sites for freelance projects) are sure that such approach may well work.
Let me tell you about one of the latest projects I tried to take part in. The buyer wanted to translate some text from English into French for $30-100 and he was really concerned about the quality of the translation. He mentioned the approximate quantity of words. According to my opinion, the text was neither very large, nor difficult so I offer him to do this project for $30 with the possibility to reduce the price to $20. He walked right into that one and our correspondence began. On the one hand he did like the price, but on the other hand he needed the best quality in the world for that translation so he asked me in several letters if I was really sure or not in my skills and talents. My assurance didn’t satisfy him so he sent me the whole file in order to let me see it (or maybe translate it and send him for free?). Well, I sent him a sample of my work and at the end of the day … he chose somebody who offered him 15-dollar price.
Bravo! Good luck to him! Where did he loose his concern about the quality? Or maybe $5 made him forget about all his requirements. Who knows… But why should I waste my precious time for such miserly buyers from well-off Europe and America while even in Russia people are ready to pay more?
