I did some for 250. They're easy and the pay is great. I wish they happened more often. I considered learning Chinese to get the other available shops. Supposedly, the third language goes faster.
I'm often asked to do the bank shops in Chinese. I don't speak fluent chinese but am of chinese ancestry. The shops are to be done in Mandarin dialect.
What is not fair? Is it not fair for an MSC to offer fees which it feels are required to have the job done? Or is it not fair that the American education system does not, as a matter of default, foster multilingualism?
The American education systems is not supposed to foster multilingualism, your parents are. MSC offer fees they feel they can get away with and nothing more.
The pronounciation in the Mandarin dialect is easier than Cantonese. My kids attended chinese language school and learned to speak Mandarin. My family's dialect was Cantonese. It was hard to help with the homework since my husband and I were not very familiar with Mandarin dialect.