Again about prices

[goncharenko]

I work in translation niche. Just have seen an offer to translate 5000 word document for $ 30. Are you kidding?
Less than 1 cent per word?

[sandm4n]

I work in translation niche. Just have seen an offer to translate 5000 word document for $ 30. Are you kidding?

Less than 1 cent per word?

[eoinfinnegan]

To be fair - that is more than a lot of the people buying will offer in buyer requests!
The bottom line is that many people do not understand the amount of time translation takes. You can dedicate your life to trying to educate them or you can just focus on the clients who do understand and appreciate a good translator. I choose the latter now having attempted to do the former for my first few months here. You may change the thinking of 1 in every hundred buyers but the time spent doing it is never worth it.