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Originally Posted by voicy1stef
I've just got a quick question. Sometimes I notice on the voices.com audition listings that a job will be listed as "Job budget": $1000-$5000.
Then, in the script and details section the client's description of the job could read something like 'budget is US$1200.
Just wondering why there's a disparity in the rates. And, therefore when doing a proposal, should we ignore the v.com job listing budget suggestion, and pay more attention to the fee listed in the client's description, portion of the notice?
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I believe Voices.com budgets are selected from a menu of options (100-250, 250-500, etc). They are not free-form like V123's.
I don't see a real disparity. The seeker chooses the correct range to give the talent a ball-park figure on the list of jobs, the specifies the exact amount in the posted text. As long as it's in the range, it's kosher with me... In cases like this, I quote the seeker's budget if it's an ok number.
As a programmer, I prefer the way Voices.com does pricing. It's clean and simple, and you don't end up with "to be determined" or "whatever-they-want-to-type". It would also allow Voices.com to let us filter the auditions (ie. "Don't show me any Audio Book auditions below $500") V123 can't have this because of the lack of quantifiable information in their postings. But they have SmartCast instead...
Meh - what do I know,
Joe J Thomas
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