The important question would be, do they honor the Per Page
price?
Actually, per page pricing has deception written all over it.
This is an obvious bait and switch technique. Although these
Per Page companies advertise in google and bing the low per page price, it is
conditional to the number of words on the page, usually anywhere from 120 to
250. The trouble is, many documents have a larger number of words per page,
take for instance the most modern version of the Brazilian birth certificate,
which can now have as many as 470 words (by comparison, older versions had 170
words).
Additionally, they insist clients send full documents,
including stamps in the back. You might have guessed it: the 10-word stamp will
constitute a page, so right away the cost is doubled, and you are paying
US$2.25 per word.
Others charge extra for notary, paper document and shipping
service charges, in addition to the postal charges. So, very quickly the
US$22.50 per page document becomes US$ 85.00.
As for more complex documents, such as Court judgments, the
situation is even worse. Let us say you have a very dense 10-page judgment,
single space. A document like this can have as many as 600 words per page,
depending on font size. So, while you expected to pay US$ 225.00 for the
translation, it quickly becomes US$720.00. A lease can have more than 1,000
words, etc., etc..
The same applies to uncertified text. Trouble is, once you
are on their site, you are unlikely to leave and seek a better price, and they
know how to manipulate you into thinking they are the best game in town. They
may also tell you that is how everybody works. Not true, because we do not work
like that.
At legaltranslationsystems.com we do not play games with the
client. You send the document for a quote without obligation, and it is a firm
quote. There is never any additional charge.
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