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Carla Guerreiro 
France
Local time: 18:55
Member (2006)
French to Portuguese
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Hello,
We are 30 translators from different countries who worked for an american translation agency (I created a Blueboard record for this agency and I wrote a comment about them).
We translated tv scripts for "Stargate" and we didn't get paid. We decided to send a complaint to the Attorney General of the State of California (this agency is located in L.A) and we intend to pay a lawyer.
What else can we do? Your advice is welcome.
Best regards,... See more Hello,
We are 30 translators from different countries who worked for an american translation agency (I created a Blueboard record for this agency and I wrote a comment about them).
We translated tv scripts for "Stargate" and we didn't get paid. We decided to send a complaint to the Attorney General of the State of California (this agency is located in L.A) and we intend to pay a lawyer.
What else can we do? Your advice is welcome.
Best regards,
Carla Guerreiro ▲ Collapse
| | | | | | PRen (X)
Local time: 12:55
French to English
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you should notify the producer of Stargate.
| | | | Irene N
United States
Local time: 11:55
English to Russian
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Mutarjim97
United States
Local time: 12:55
French to Arabic
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| Use all resouces available | Sep 5, 2007 |
What was their argument, if any, for not paying you? You can also authorize a person here to handle your communications with the concerned parties.
Good luck
What is the link to the Blue Board posting?
Thanks
| | | | | Get in touch with the original client | Sep 5, 2007 |
I am sorry to hear about your problem.
I agree with PRen. Once when I had problems getting paid from an UK agency, I contacted their client, (an American Company) and it worked wonders. Paid within two weeks.
I wish you all the best of luck
Mafalda
| | | | | Tell direct client that you own the copyright to the translation | Sep 5, 2007 |
and that they must not use your and the other translators' translations. This has always worked for me, they are scared stiff to loose their clients...
What a cheek, hard to believe, or we had better believe it...
| | | | | I second Mafalda and Martin... | Sep 5, 2007 |
Get in touch with the original client and tell direct client that you own the copyright to the translation. That´s the fastest way for you guys to get paid.
Best
Letty
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Vito Smolej
Germany
Local time: 18:55
Member (2004)
English to Slovenian
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SITE LOCALIZER | "What else can we do? " | Sep 5, 2007 |
stop working for them.
Cold turkey ... the best survival strategy.
| | | | Carla Guerreiro
France
Local time: 18:55
Member (2006)
French to Portuguese
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TOPIC STARTER
Mounaim Elkhezzani wrote:
What was their argument, if any, for not paying you? You can also authorize a person here to handle your communications with the concerned parties.
Good luck
What is the link to the Blue Board posting?
Thanks
We are all in touch, because we have everyone's email addresses.
The agency told to some of us (not to me) that some of us didn't respect the schedules. I don't believe them, because we are too many to get scammed.
[Editada em 2007-09-06 07:13]
| | | | Ralf Lemster
Germany
Local time: 18:55
English to German
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| No discussion of specific outsourcers in the forums, please | Sep 6, 2007 |
What is the link to the Blue Board posting?
Please note that discussion of specific outsourcers in the forum is not permitted under the forum rules; specifically, forum rule no. 8:
Outsourcers may not be discussed specifically.
Posts or comments regarding a specific outsourcer (identified by name, reference, link or other means), whether positive or negative, are not permitted. (To indicate their likelihood of working again with a given outsourcer, site users should use the ProZ.com Blue Board.)
Thanks for bearing this in mind.
When posting entries to the Blue Board, please keep comments factual, focusing on your own experience, expressing your likelihood of working again for that outsourcer. Understandable as they might be, personal comments ("fraudsters", "liars", etc.) will not only reflect badly on yourself - Jobs/BB moderators will ask you to re-post anyway. 
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Best regards,
Ralf
| | | | | https://ic3.gov | Sep 6, 2007 |
I've been in the some situation. The agency, based in CA, late with the payment, didn't answer my e-mails and etc... a month after I file a complaint they paid.
https://ic3.gov
[Edited at 2007-09-06 10:09]
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Ralf Lemster
Germany
Local time: 18:55
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| Corrected URL | Sep 7, 2007 |
Hi Elena,
The link you quoted won't work in the way you posted it - when quoting URLs, it helps to to enclose them with "url" and "/url" (replace the inverted commas with square brackets).
ic3.gov
Best, Ralf
| | | | Carla Guerreiro
France
Local time: 18:55
Member (2006)
French to Portuguese
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TOPIC STARTER
Elena Aleksandrova wrote: I've been in the some situation. The agency, based in CA, late with the payment, didn't answer my e-mails and etc... a month after I file a complaint they paid. https://ic3.gov[Edited at 2007-09-06 10:09]
Hello Elena,
Thanks a lot for your message.
I have just filed my complaint and told my colleagues who were cheated by this company to do the same.
| | | | Carla Guerreiro
France
Local time: 18:55
Member (2006)
French to Portuguese
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TOPIC STARTER | contact with client | Sep 10, 2007 |
Andres & Leticia Enjuto wrote:
Get in touch with the original client and tell direct client that you own the copyright to the translation. That´s the fastest way for you guys to get paid.
Best
Letty
Hello Mafalda, Martin, Andres and Leticia,
We decided to write a letter to the original client, which is Metro Goldwyn Mayer.
Everyone of us will sign it and we will send it very very soon.
We don't know if it will work, but at least we will try.
Fortunately, we stick together and I'm very happy with this solidarity between us.
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