As Mother's Day Approaches, Flower Deals Do Not Get Better
ProFlowers sends a lot of promotional e-mails, and Barry is on their list. While the deals on flowers get worse as a major dead-plant-sending holiday approaches, the contrast between one day’s deal and...
View ArticleMother's Day Flowers Vs Reality
On the left are the flowers Brian ordered from ProFlowers for Mother’s Day. On the right are the ones that were actually delivered, late, and found by the janitors at the university she works at...
View ArticleWhy Does ProFlowers Think I'm Cheating On My Wife?
You can’t blame Chris’s wife for being confused. She happened to receive a promotional e-mail from Proflowers, addressed to Chris, thanking him for buying a gift for Margaret. Her name is not Margaret....
View ArticleNow Proflowers Thinks I Have Two Wives: The Margaret Saga Continues
Last week’s post about a baffling and possibly incriminating e-mail solicitation from ProFlowers produced a hilarious comments section and a lot of speculation as to the identity of Margaret, the woman...
View ArticleFour More Sad Florist Tales From The Garden Of Discontent
Closed lilies, not-so-fresh blooms, and two flower arrangements that never showed up, leaving disappointed girlfriends in their wake. Delivering the flowers a day late is better than not at all…but not...
View ArticleValentine’s Day Garden Of Discontent: The 2013 Entries From Proflowers
When Proflowers isn’t accusing people of bigamy, Proflowers is apparently busy really, really disappointing girlfriends. So far today we’ve received two reports of the company dispatching really subpar...
View ArticleThe 2013 Valentine’s Day Garden Of Discontent
One of these things is not like the other This year, the major national flower-distribution networks were just as busy as usual on Valentine’s Day. Busy being terrible at their jobs. Maybe the vast...
View ArticleMore Valentine’s Day Mishaps From Proflowers
“Crap” was not an option on the site.Mykel picked out a lovely bouquet for his fiancée from Proflowers, but the lovely and lush bouquet isn’t what showed up on her desk. What she got had a lot fewer...
View ArticleProFlowers Reaches Out Before I Complain About Missed Valentine’s Day Delivery
(jenzwick)We’ve criticized ProFlowers a lot over the years, even dedicating an entire post to the company’s screwups last Valentine’s Day and inflicting the classic Margaret Saga on the world. It’s...
View Article4 Things We’ve Learned About Getting The Best Valentine’s Day Flowers For...
Every year, after the major flower-giving holidays, readers send us photos of what they ordered and what they actually received. It’s a dismaying scene, and what we really want is to never publish...
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