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Mike Harrison
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 16, 2023 6:54 am    Post subject: Submitting to Bodalgo requests Reply with quote

If the rate offered in a Bodalgo audition solicitation is (considerably) below what you would normally charge, do you: ignore their budget and submit with your regular rate in the Budget field; submit and include an explanation that the offered rate is (too) low; not submit at all... or?

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Lee Gordon
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 16, 2023 10:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If the rate is too low, I ignore the job.
I have to say, however, that for many of the jobs I see posted on Bodalgo the rate I would consider to be fair falls comfortably within the posted range.
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Philip Banks
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 16, 2023 12:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

On such sites the rate is not a negotiating ploy.

A person who is exposed to the end product does not recognise the voice, cares even less, is probably not listening and is blissfully unaware of the top talent who took the moral high ground and walked away from the job.

Ant and Dec are famous TV personalities in the UK, ask them to do a radio ad and their minimum rate is £40,000. The union rate for me (for my local station) for one ad? £27.40p. It is in fact the Union minimum but it has become the de facto rate. On average it will take from request to session to billing around 20 minutes to get that type of job done. At my hourly rate every single script radio ad for a small station costs my business about £40 more than it earns me. Three scripts or 1 plus 2 tag changes fabby! When did that last happen? The Luftwaffe were over head at the time!
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