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Jeffrey Kafer

http://blogs.voices.com/voxdaily/2008/06/buy_now_packages_for_voice_overs.html

Voices.com announced a new feature: The buy now package. This allows users to essentially post their rate cards. OK, fine. no haggling or trying to fit within a budget. Sounds good.

But the kicker is that when a client hires you for this, the Surepay system fees are now charged to you, whereas before they were added to the client's bill.

So now we pay for a membership to Voices.com and have to pay a commission. on each job that uses Surepay and Buy Now.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm just going to build this fee into my rates.

Discuss.
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Yoda117 · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 11:37 am Post subject:

Cost of doing business being passed along to the client.

Businesses have been doing it for centuries.

You're a home business.

On the face of things, it seems that the dots all connect. This should be a no-brainer.
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bobsouer · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 11:56 am Post subject:

Jeff,

I thought the comments were quite instructive (including yours) and I quite agree with Greg. Passing along the cost of doing business is the way business works.
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Yoda117 · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 1:46 pm Post subject:

Jeffrey Kafer · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 1:54 pm Post subject:

In defense of Voices.com, they've raised the rates they quoted by a big enough margin, that the fees are now incidental, to me anyway.

Stephanie is great about encouraging and working with the feedback she gets.
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Yoda117 · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 2:06 pm Post subject:

Seems like it Jeff.

And she seems willing to do her best to answer hard questions brought to her by the talent.

Frankly, I'd rather have this system than the "tagging" over at V123.

/and since Surepay is a form of escrow, I'd be willing to pay for it regardless.
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Diane Maggipinto · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 2:11 pm Post subject:

i'm trying to figure out if yer a lovuh or a hatuh, kafuh.
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Jeffrey Kafer · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 2:13 pm Post subject:

I'm ok with it now. My first post wasn't so in love. But since then, they've upped the recommended rates such that I'm OK with it now.
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Christopher French · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:06 pm Post subject:

You all realize that Voices.com did that because of the gas prices, right? It costs us all more to push our comfy chairs around from one side of the studio to the other. Shocked

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ronphi · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:21 pm Post subject:

Is this what you mean Christopher?

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