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Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

compliquer nos propositions de prix

English translation:

vary our pricing structure

Added to glossary by TesCor -
Apr 11, 2005 20:43
19 yrs ago
French term

compliquer nos propositions de prix

French to English Other Business/Commerce (general)
Document entitled "Resisting to Price Pressure: How to Sell a Higher Price":

one of the points is,

- Compliquer nos propositions de prix
a) faire des marges différentes par qualification, par durée de mission et par délai de paiement
b) faire des marges différentes pour les jours fériés non travaillés mais payés;
Proposed translations (English)
4 +3 vary our pricing structure
4 +4 Complicate our pricing policy
5 +1 Introduce pricing levels or levels of pricing..
4 +1 Itemize our proposals/quotations.
4 sophisticating our price offer
4 decompose our price offers
4 make our proposals/quotations more elaborate
3 -1 to complicate our price proposals

Discussion

Non-ProZ.com Apr 11, 2005:
thanks all for your contributions. To Jane and cchat: No it's not editing, it's an actual translation, and I guess the client thought he was being "helpful" (ya right) by providing the title in English. I posted it as in the original, but I'll have to do something about the title.
cchat Apr 11, 2005:
Shouldn't the title be
Resisting Price Pressure: How to Sell at a Higher Price

Proposed translations

+3
56 mins
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vary our pricing structure

No negative connotations, and the proposed variations are detailed immediately afterwards.

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Note added at 1 hr 3 mins (2005-04-11 21:46:10 GMT)
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or maybe \"introduce variation(s) into the pricing structure\" - no longer a flat rate per day, but charging more for public holidays etc.
Peer comment(s):
agree Kelvin Wu
1 hr
agree roneill
1 hr
agree Assimina Vavoula
8 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks Charlie"
+4
5 mins

Complicate our pricing policy

one way

OR

Use a sophisticated pricing policy to...
Peer comment(s):
agree cchat : it took me longer to type it, but great minds think alike
2 mins
agree Patrice
13 mins
agree Regina Guerra : I've also think in "price policy" and, honestly, I think your answer is the better one.
15 mins
agree Anna Maria Augustine (X)
47 mins
neutral Charlie Bavington : Gotta say, not a big fan of "complicate" - it's usually negative. Sophisticated sounds a bit, well, poncy to me. All they mean is they're gonna vary their charges a bit more.... :-)
52 mins
I agree with you - but the word is there in big black pixels, they really want to complicate matters to make their pricing work, they say 'faire...' twice. This is not about being nice, this is more "pull a fast one" language & 'compliquer' = 'complicate'
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-1
6 mins

to complicate our price proposals

to complicate our price proposals
Peer comment(s):
disagree cchat : sounds too negative in English
2 mins
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7 mins

sophisticating our price offer

if you say complicating it sounds wrong; sophisticating sounds good.
Peer comment(s):
neutral Connor : I'm not a grammar fan, but 'sophisticating' sounds well dodgy!!
6 mins
neutral Charlie Bavington : I'm with Connor on the dodginess issue :-)
54 mins
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8 mins

decompose our price offers

"Compliquer" here has the not-often-used meaning of seperating the price offers into different parts. I chose to translate with "decompose" to keep the meaning of multiple parts but I am sure you can find an other word meaning "seperation into different components"
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+1
29 mins

Itemize our proposals/quotations.

I thought this could be helpful :)

http://www.fastforwardclub.com/Articles/Business/A-Way-Of-Se...

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Note added at 31 mins (2005-04-11 21:14:54 GMT)
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\"Complicate\" and \"decompose\" are quite negative in connotation. This is to encourage the maintenance of a high standard in price and to offer some suggestions as to how to execute it, such as itemizing in detail.
Reference:

http://www.fastforwardclub.com/Articles/Business/A-Way-Of-Selling.htm

Peer comment(s):
agree Kate Hudson (X)
6 mins
neutral Charlie Bavington : think there's a bit more to it than just itemising estimates. They mean actually charge differently for different things (implication being one price fits all at the moment)
31 mins
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+1
1 hr

Introduce pricing levels or levels of pricing..

Teresa..are you editing this? The title is in bad English. For example, you don't sell a price in English...you sell at a price..so....

This for consultants, right>

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Note added at 1 hr 33 mins (2005-04-11 22:16:05 GMT)
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as in: ... This 90-minute presentation will introduce the concept of managing production,
... As pricing levels and fundamental information are revealed in stages, ...
www.ilfb.org/viewdriveline.asp?dlid=95 - 37k - Cached - Similar pages

or

Introduce differentiated pricing....
Peer comment(s):
agree roneill : I like your last option
1 hr
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9 hrs

make our proposals/quotations more elaborate

in that sense

further refine
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