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Poll: Do you reply to e-mails (job offers) from agencies/persons who do not address you by name?
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
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Likewise! Dec 21, 2011

Elodie Bonnafous wrote:

What matters to me is that the agency / potential client makes a professional impression.
 
humbird
humbird
Depends Dec 21, 2011

In a nutshell, I am with majority here. Namely, if the job being offered sounds interesting, within my speciality, professionally written and presented, sent from credible outsourcers, mentioning where they found me, and in particular when there is no mention of that dreadful word "competitive price".

[Edited at 2011-12-21 16:21 GMT]
 
Nikki Scott-Despaigne
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French to English
Used to, not any more Dec 21, 2011

In my early days, back in the 1990's, yes. Never since. Back then it was, as it is now, a mass mail for mass price battle. I am not in the least interested in replying to those sorts of sollicitations.
 
tradu-grace
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Italy
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agree Dec 21, 2011

Interlangue wrote:

I do when the mail comes from a regular customer who addresses several translators in one mail (they usually say so when they are in a hurry).

I never do when the mail comes from unknown agencies/people who don't say how/where they found me.


 
Robert Forstag
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United States
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Hell no! Dec 21, 2011

First, there will almost always be someone who has responded first, and/or offered a lower rate. Secondly, I am not a beggar with bowl in hand, waiting to be dished a serving of thin gruel....

[Edited at 2011-12-21 17:16 GMT]
 
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