Did you know when your order flowers online

[wuv tigger]

that you are NOT guaranteed a delivery time the day after a holiday.

IN FACT, a florist may have refused the order placed you placed online & the online comp. can't find a florist to fulfill the order. And you "might" get an email saying there was a problem but maybe not!

IF I had received the email re: the problem w/ the delivery, I could have purchased the flowers & balloons from a local store!

Can you tell I've had a problem with a delivery?

 

[Blondy876]

Yes, I also learned the hard way that because you order a certain kind of flower or a certain arrangement doesn't mean that that is what you are going to get. I ordered a bouquet of baby white roses and babies breath and I received a bouquet of pink carnations and greens. I don't order flowers online anymore.

 

[diznygirl]

I've had problems in the past as well. Now I go the extra mile by finding a local florist where I need the delivery and speaking directly to them to order an arrangement.

 

[helenk]

I do not know who you ordered from but, I have always ordered my flower arrangement from hallmark.com. They have always been on time and everyone who has gotten flowers from me has raved about the floral arrangement they got.

 

[HayGan]

I've had nothing but probems with Hallmark.com . I will NEVER order from them again!!!

 

[DisneyLovingMama]

I use ProFlowers and never really had a problem. But, the recipient has to put the flowers together themselves, which some people don't like.

 

[arminnie]

When my mother died we got this arrangement from a major local florist that was just pitiful. It looked like one of those bunches at the grocery store stuck in a dollar vase.

It was from 3 families (close relatives) from out of state. I would have never said anything, but I was a little surprised that they hadn't send anything nicer as they are not cheap and were very close to my mother.

Well my aunt (mother's sister), one of the people who sent the arrangement could not believe it when she saw it. She is very quiet and mild mannered but she called them up and let them have it. Obviously they had paid for a very, very nice arrangement, and the florist had tried to shaft them.

The owner of the company went to school with my sister including college - so he got to hear about it too. The next day (which was still before the funeral) we got a HUGE replacement.

I like to call a local company (although in this case it didn't work), but I always tell them that I will be there to see the flowers.

I've had flowers left on my front doorstep when I was out of town for 10 days.

 

[gradtchr]

I had problems with proflowers but they made up for the poor quality with a replacement bouquet.

DH is working with FTD right now because he ordered a large rose bouquet for me for Valentines and it came with wilted roses that looked like they had been hit by a truck. He is not amused.

 

[Madaboutthemouse]

I had problems with proflowers but they made up for the poor quality with a replacement bouquet.

Last year, DH ordered a dozen roses from Proflowers for V-Day. They were beautiful for the first two days and then all wilted at once. Proflowers was very responsive in sending a replacement bouquet...ordered irises and tulips as I thought they might last longer. They lasted almost 2 weeks before they started to wilt.

 

[lsyorke]

Oh, don't even get me started! I went to the 1800flowers store in my town when my twin grandaughters were born. Picked out what I wanted($100.00, hey, it's the grandkids birth! ). I went back to pick up the flowers to take it down myself. The arrangement was NOTHING like the picture. Instead of a 18 inch woven basket it was a 10 inch plastic tub, instead of white roses they were white carnations. The whole arrangement was atrocious. When I refused to take it they got REALLY nervous. The told me that they were out of the items need to make the arrangement so they substituted!!! Excuse me, I can INTO THE STORE 1 hour ago.. didn't you know then that you didn't have what I ordered. I walked out. But what really got me was that if I had that shipped I would have paid $100.00 for a $20.00 arrangement.
I wrote to the main office of the company about the problem.. they sent me $17.00 in gift certificates and a form letter. Like I would actually use them again.. NOT!!!

 

[Caradana]

Proflowers is a pretty cool company - actually, it was started by the same guy who started Blue Mountain Arts (ever send one of those online greeting cards? ) He sold both companies at the top of the market, and now he's a billionaire. Yup, a billionaire, with over a thousand million dollars. Now he lives in Colorado in a townhouse (yup - a townhouse) and plays tennis. And - prepare yourself for the kicker ---

He's 31 years old, cute and never married.

google "Jared Polis". Such a good Princetonian. One of our favorites.
I'd order flowers from them anytime.

 

[donaldbuzz&minnie]

I really hate sending flowers - it's gotten to the point where I just assume I'm going to get ripped off. They really have people over a barrel. What else are you going to send when someone dies, a bunch of balloons? I don't know what else to do, so I keep changing companies and sending flowers, but I dread it every time.

 

[pixiemomma]

I've never had any problems but I usually only send them when there is a death not at holiday times. When my Mom died, the flowers I recieved meant alot to me, and I am not a flower person.

 

[cstraub]

I ordered a flower arrangement for my Aunt and Uncles 50th wedding anniversary. Their anniversary is on Dec 24 (Christmas Eve). I had the flowers delivered that day. The arrangement I ordered was not Chrismtas like one bit as I did not want to offend them by sending a Chrismtas arrangement because they are Jehovah Witness's.

Of course you know where this story is going. The arrangement was nothing like I oredered. It screamed Christmas with a red and green ribbon and red flowers. Nothing like what I ordered. My Aunt and Uncle did not say anything about the arrangement looking Christmasy and were appreciative. I found out what it looked like from there daughter whom I asked.

I called and complained and they gave me the arrangement for free. They must have been mass producing arrangements that day. I would have given them something in person if I did not live 2,000 miles away.