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Poll: How do you feel when clients don’t acknowledge receipt of your delivered work?
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satish krishna itikela
satish krishna itikela  Identity Verified
India
Local time: 19:00
Member (2011)
Ingiriisi to Telugu
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Contact them after one day for confirmation of the receipt. Sep 30, 2025

I don't feel bad or anything, why because we as a freelance translator have only a handful of works and as we may work mainly in one or two languages and we have some free time. But that will be not the situation for a client, as they look after many works as they deal with many languages and with many number of their clients and freelance translators around the world. So in my view a freelancer should not show any ego feeling regarding this situation, i am practicing this since my starting care... See more
I don't feel bad or anything, why because we as a freelance translator have only a handful of works and as we may work mainly in one or two languages and we have some free time. But that will be not the situation for a client, as they look after many works as they deal with many languages and with many number of their clients and freelance translators around the world. So in my view a freelancer should not show any ego feeling regarding this situation, i am practicing this since my starting career of 26 years and i will continue this for my life time. This is purely my nature and policy of work. ▲ Collapse


Marjolein Snippe
Kunal Jaidka
Maria Laura Curzi
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 14:30
Member (2007)
Ingiriisi to Portuguese
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Other Sep 30, 2025

Most of my customers do...

Liena V.
Christine Andersen
 
Ian Keith Jones Williams
Ian Keith Jones Williams  Identity Verified
Spain
Local time: 15:30
Faransiis to Ingiriisi
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Upload Sep 30, 2025

I usually have to upload projects on agency portals, so there is no real need for confirmation.

Kunal Jaidka
Liena V.
Yaotl Altan
Maria Laura Curzi
 
Agneta Pallinder
Agneta Pallinder  Identity Verified
United Kingdom
Local time: 14:30
Member (2014)
Swedish to Ingiriisi
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Ask for it! Sep 30, 2025

I always ask the client to confirm safe receipt, and then they do.

WolfgangS
Simone Linke
Michele Fauble
Maria Laura Curzi
 


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