Florist.com For All The Bouquets In Your Life
Written: Aug 05 '01
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The Bottom Line
I highly recommend Florist.com. Their variety, prices and products have been the best I have found during my searches.
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When I used this site less than 2 weeks ago, it wasn’t the first time. I have sent my mother flowers and although I have never seen what she got in person she always seemed happy with what she got and they arrived on time.
Two weeks ago we got a call from my friend that her father-in-law had died suddenly. I wanted to send something nice without spending a lot of money. I went to Florist.com knowing I wouldn’t be sending flowers but I wanted to see what they had in gift baskets. I sent them Basket Sendor (FW-10).
Now do not panic if you have sent flowers to a Jewish family just because I don’t. It isn’t that flowers are wrong, they just aren’t the norm in my experience.
Who is Florist.com?
“We've been in the flower business for 15 years, based around a booming retail flower shop called Floral & Hardy in Beverly Hills, California. Our Mission Statement is "Be Obsessed with the Customer!" For years, customers such as Michael Douglas, Ringo Star, Drew Barrymore, Magic Johnson, George Clooney and thousands of people from all walks of life have trusted us to provide fresh flowers to express their sentiments. Aron Benon Founder" (from the website)
What can you buy?
•You can buy flowers for: All Occasions, Anniversaries, Birthdays, Funerals, and Moms to name a few categories as well as Gourmet Cakes, Cookies and Fruit and Wine. In addition you will find a link for their best sellers, such as Color Me Mine – a flower bouquet for $46.00.
•These items are listed between 2 categories: The Flower Shop and The Gift Shop. In the Flower Shop you’ll find links for Flowers, Anniversary Flowers, Balloons/Flowers, Fresh Orchids, and Roses to name a few.
•In the Gift Shop you'll find Mrs. Beasley's Cookies,
Fruit & Wine Baskets and Gourmet Baskets. Each link will bring you to one or more pages of items you can purchase. If you click on one of the pictures, let’s say a bouquet of flowers called Memories in the Sympathy category, you will get a larger picture with a description: "SY-03 - Memories
This colorful assortment of Pon Poms, solidago and myrtle will convery your deepest sympathy."
•On the website you can search by keyword, for example if I type in baby shower, it brings me to a page that says, "Lull-A-Bye Carriage -A very special gift item has been created for MOM. A keepsake wire-shaped baby carriage is filled with a combination of Mrs. Beasley's and Miss Grace goodies. Included are a lemon mini-cake gracelet, 6 chocolate chip cookies (with nuts), 6 oatmeal raisin cookies and 4 assorted brownie bars. A wonderful gift to celebrate a baby shower, or birth. Serves 8. For $42.99"
•International orders are taken and a pull down menu gives you options of the country from which you are ordering.
•Another feature of Florist.com is called Fun Stuff where you can find links for birthstones/flowers, flower horoscope, flowers and personalities, plant care and state flowers.
Clicking the birthstone link you will find, for example, under January (my birth month) "JANUARY FLOWER: Carnation (fascination) BIRTHSTONE: Garnet." So now you know to send me carnations in January! This is a really cute area.
•Go to horoscopes and you’ll find: "People call you a budding genius. The word is, you're going places, and there's little to stop you from shooting straight to the top. Read the fine print concerning money matters and stay open to new ideas."
(That’s me alright!)
Ordering:
Knowing I didn’t want flowers for my friends I went to Gourmet Baskets. I could choose among a medium size basket for $40 (which was shown); large for $55 or extra large for $70. Since there was no description for this item and I wanted to be sure of the size and if it was appropriate for a funeral (You wouldn’t have this issue with flowers because you would just go to Sympathy.) I called the 1800 number on the top of the page.
The customer service representative was very nice and helpful. He told me that he thought it was a decent size to send and that they would remove the bow. He also said to write in any special instructions when I went to order. On the page there is a place to put in what date you want the item delivered which I did. I also wanted to find out about delivery so I clicked on that link.
Delivery information: from the website:
· "Orders received before 2:15PM, in the recipients time zone, can be delivered the same day.
· Orders received after 2:15PM, in the recipients time zone, can be delivered the following day.
· Any orders received after 2:15PM Saturday, will be delivered on the following Monday.
DELIVERY CHARGE
A service charge of $6.99 will be added to your bill.
Please note: Arrangement may vary due to items being out of season or sold out. If this is the case, that flower, plant or container will be replaced with one of equal or greater value."
Checkout:
I entered my friends’ zip code, when I wanted it delivered and went to check out. There is a place to write in some sentiments on a card that is delivered and there is a space which the representative told me about where I wrote in that this was for a funeral, please remove the bow. I used a credit card and I was done. If I hadn’t made the call, the whole process would have taken under 10 minutes.
Promotions:
***There is a promotion that if you register now you will receive $5.00 off every order for the next 6 months. You don’t have to register to order but along with the $5.00 off you get the following: (from the website)
"Check Out Privileges
You'll never have to input your information again. Excluding your credit card information. We do not store this for your protection.
Split Shipping
Tired of starting over to send a 2nd order? Fill in as many addresses in your address book. Just click and send.
Volume discounting
When sending multiple orders receive discounts.
Discounts
We will inform your when we are offering discounts and other special offers.
Remind You
Let us remind of those special occasions in your life. Just input the date and we will remind you with suggestions, even send you a picture of what you sent the year before. (You will have control of this option.)"
In conclusion: I highly recommend Florist.com. In the past the service and flowers were excellent and my recent experience with the fruit basket was very positive. The next day my friend IMed me and told me that the basket was perfect. I truly believe she was sincere.
Recommended:
Yes
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