Jubilee Tech and M2 Limited.

On 2002-03-10 07:08, Tongli wrote:

Bin Li and Li-chuan, nice to read your messages here. I worked for Jubilee Tech on 2 or 3 translation jobs about 3 or 4 years ago. I have not heard about M2 Limited, no info about this company found in ProZ.com either. If you want to work on their jobs, perhaps you can consider to sign an agreement with each of these two companies before accepting any job assignment from them. If I were you, I would spell out clearly the total dollar amount, set the date of payment and term of payment. Be sure the signer is an authorized manager and be sure the signer to print his or her name underneath his or her signature. Don\'t forget to date it. I think this will put you in a better shape.



It is sad that we all have to work in such way to protect ourselves.







Thank you Kevin and Li-Chuan for your advice. I think I will skip them altogether. It is not worth the trouble. I have never been cheated on any project in the last few years except one guy from Canada who later on moved to another location and changed his business name. It was less than $300. So I let him got off.



Thanks again.



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On 2002-03-10 08:03, Tongli wrote:

Ben Li, I wonder if we all can figure out a way for the translators to collect their money after translation is provided. When you mention the company in Canada that owes you $300, I wonder if it is the same company my friend Sadao dealt with in Vancouver, B.C. It owes over $3000 to Sadao, an excellent Japanese translator. Sadao called him many times and heard excuses one after another but no check received. Poor Sadao called him again and said that he had to come to collect the money in person. Very strangely, when Sadao drove through the check point on the U.S.-Canadian border, Sadao was stopped by the Canadian Officer. By the way Sadao is an American citizen. They interrogated him, detached the dashboard of his car, kept him there for 4 hours to figure out if he is smuggling drug into Canada. When he reached the guy抯 office, it turned out to be a residential home and the guy in the house refused to let him in, told him to leave otherwise he would call cop. Even to this date, this experience still gives Sadao and me nightmares whenever we think of it.



Let\'s talk about it. I think this is a very good topic for all the translator. I am sure we will figure out a way to get our hard-earned money paid.





The guy I dealt with was from Toronto. I looked in my book. It was only $225. For a sizeable company, I think we can collect through ATA\'s collection service agent, Dun & Bradstreet. This is quite a large company, collection service is only a small part of their business. They can get the debtors into some national list and ruin their business reputation. But for individual, it might not be that effective.



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On 2002-03-10 11:12, cochrum wrote:

On the TCR (Translator client Review)board are several negative comments about this company and about Jubilee.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TCR





Hi Nicole,



Thanks for the info. I have checked the message there. They are very helpful. Your help is appreciated.



Bin



HTH, Nicole

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