Be careful who you do business with. Occasionally I’ve sent flowers to people using 1-800-FLOWERS and it never occurred to me that they would try to scam me. A few days ago I get a check from them for $9.25 which was kind of a mystery. I turned the check over and on the back was an agreement (above) that if I cashed the check then they would send my credit card information to someone called Elite Excursions who would start billing me $19.99 a month.
I wonder how many people who get a lot of checks in the mail might deposit this without realizing they signed up for some bogus service that’s just going to con them out of their money.
I damn sure will never use 1-800-FLOWERS again!
leslie, why would you say that?
You must be an employee of 1800.
Local florist would never run a scam like the one referred to here.
Having worked at many shops over the years, say you get a order for 100.00 from the local FTD or 1-800 flowers, They then take out a deliver charge of 10.00 then they will then take out say 20 perrcent for labor on this, Then you will get then a 75 percent of the order filled. They won’t do the check thing of course not, But I have seen many shops say that it is the growers.fault that prices are so high, Well that is bogus BS they can be fair and charge you what they want to, So why is it that Pro Flowers can charge 29.99 a dz roses, Well the local shop can as well,The reason folks are ordering from these places is because of the guarantee and that of easier calls.
ditto what he said.
People have no brain when they call a idiot service instead of calling the merchant direct. All 800flowers and ftd.com and teleflora.com want is a cut of the action and they do not do any of the work and do not see what is sent. If people would wise up and call the Real Florist direct they would not have these issues.
Real Florists are there to serve you!!
leslie:
order a doz roses from proflowers and a dozen from a real shop. See what you get. Maybe you can arrange them but most cannot….and oh yea make sure you get the box in from the cold before they FREEZE!
proflowers and Real Florists are apples and oranges.
The funniest part is when people order flowers from proflowers and send them to a funeral home!!! slap my forehead……and someone at the FH has to arrange them or the deceased family has to ………not that is a crock of doodoo.
I got a $8.25 check from 1-800-flowers yesterday. I had already got one in December. When I called customer service to tell them I would never use 1-800-flowers again, the woman tried to give me a
different phone number to call to tell them. So customer service isn’t even taking responsibility. 1-800-flowers lacks integrity, and I will never shop with them or any company that engages in this.