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57 months ago

Rosa (a guest user) asked this question:

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57 months ago

Virgitranslate   wrote:

Pre-sale or advance of sale.

57 months ago

Ffion Marianne Moyle   wrote:

Prior to sale/in advance of sale/pre-sale

My comment:

Take your pick!

57 months ago

CMD   wrote:

advance on sale

My comment:

OR advance payment on sale
cf LRP: une avance = somme versée par anticipation

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57 months ago

Sirs Translation   wrote:

Pre-sale

My comment:

I think, the source text has a mistake and that "avance" should instead be "Avant"; that is "avant-vente, which is either a set of operations carried out by a marketing staff/expert or the marketing expert/engineer himself. In this case, you may have a "pre-sales engineer".

My references:

https://fr.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/avant-vente

57 months ago

Sirs Translation   wrote:

pre-sale

My comment:

I think the term, perhaps, was supposed to be "avanT vente", not "avance vente".

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57 months ago

   wrote:

Or maybe "advance fee"? https://study.com/academy/lesson/advance-fees-requirements-for-nevada-real-estate.html

57 months ago

   wrote:

I don't think there is a mistake in the text. I agree with CMD. The clue is that the "avance vente" is reimbursed to Mr Y. The full phrase is "avance sur vente" but the preposition is often omitted.The only mistake is that the abbreviation of Monsieur should be M. and not Mr, which is the abbreviation of Mister.

57 months ago

   wrote:

I don't think there is a mistake in the text. I agree with CMD. The clue is that the "avance vente" is reimbursed to "Mr" Y. The full phrase is "avance sur vente" but the preposition is often omitted.The only mistake is that the abbreviation of Monsieur should be M. and not Mr, which is the abbreviation of Mister. It is unfortunately a usual mistake.

57 months ago

CMD   wrote:

IMO, surely, correctly and it would be much better: "avance sur vente" ! -- There is no mistake! NB: If important key terms are listed in short form (here: NO PHRASES at all but a kind of "telegram style"), very often and "unfortunately" it leads to the fact that idiomatic expressions and/or grammatical correctness are not taken into account.