Reply from Apex Translations, Inc.Nov 10, 2020
Thank you for providing your feedback. Any reviews - good or bad - are valuable to us as they allow us to identify possible issues that we need to correct.
We are very sorry to hear about your dissatisfaction regarding your interaction with Apex. Please allow us to address your points individually:
• Regarding our delivery performance:
We received your email inquiry to translate a relatively small project containing content of personal nature at 10:49 am on Wednesday, November 4.
Our proposal to translate your documents was submitted to you at 12:53 pm on Wednesday, November 4. Our proposal stated a turnaround time of 2-3 business days for this project, not 24-48 hours.
We received your go-ahead at 5:03 p.m. on Wednesday, November 4, shortly after the end of business and we started processing the project still on Wednesday. Given the fact that we received the go-ahead after close of business on Wednesday, the clock starts ticking so to speak on the following day. The promised delivery date would thus be no later than Monday, November 9.
We delivered the translated documents at 2:45 pm on Monday, November 9 – within the range of our quoted turnaround time of 2 to 3 business days.
• Regarding the communications aspect:
While your project was being processed, we spoke to you on the phone once and we exchanged a total of 9 e-mails; 5 were sent by us, 4 e-mails originated from you. We felt that no additional communication was needed as we had all the information needed to process your project in accordance to the agreed-upon timeline.
• Regarding your remark about the quality of our translation:
Our management team has reviewed our deliverables and concluded that the translated documents meet or exceed our quality standards. There were some sections of the source documents that were cut off; however, that did not seem to be essential to the information pertaining to the main content of the documents, e.g., parts of the address of the hospital at the top of the documents, or the bullet numbering in one of the files.
Our mission here at Apex is to always strive to meet or exceed cost, quality, and delivery expectations and we try very hard not to disappoint. We are sorry that you feel that we did not meet your expectations.
The Apex team.