Archive for 'Fake Florists'
Clueless Internet “Florist”
If you’ve ever read our article on “Internet florist”, you already know that these guys are not florists. They just take your order and electronically transmit the order to a local florist for fulfillment and delivery. We real florists call them “Order Gatherers” or simply OG.
Some of them are called dOG, meaning deceptive […]
Posted: March 8th, 2008 under Fake Florists, OP-Ed.
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Danger of Internet “florist”
As some of you already know, Internet “florists” are not florists. They are “Order Gatherers”, the middlemen who just take your order and then pass it to a real florist, earning the sales commission in the process. (Read our article “fake local florist” for more info).
On the New Year’s Eve (Dec 31st), one of those […]
Posted: January 2nd, 2008 under Fake Florists.
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1-800-flowers sued by a cheating husband
According to Fox News Texas, a man is suing 1-800-flowers for a million dollars. He alleges that 1-800-flowers revealed to his wife a secret that he had sent a dozen red roses with a love note to another woman, and got into trouble as the result. Here’s the quote:
A Missouri City man is […]
Posted: September 23rd, 2007 under News and Announcement, Fake Florists.
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Wesley Berry Flowers
Wesley Berry Flowers is a florist company located in 6677 Orchard Lake Rd, West Bloomfield, MI 48322. They happen to be one of the biggest Floral Order Gatherers in our industry. Because of their deceptive, but not (yet) illegal, tactics of gathering flower orders, they are already included in our “Hall of Shame” fake Huntington […]
Posted: December 2nd, 2006 under Fake Florists.
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Channel 7 (Boston) investigates phony florists.
As we mentioned before, Internet and Yellowpages are infested with phony “florists” who pretend to be mom-pop local florists, but in reality are neither local nor florist. They are deceptive telemarketers who simply take your order and, after subtracting a commission and fees, send the order out to a real florist who then makes […]
Posted: November 22nd, 2006 under Fake Florists.
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Read what other florists are saying about flower “Order Gatherers”
Flower Buzz in W. St. Paul, MN
Canada Florist Flowers
Basic facts about “(Flower) Order Gatherers”
“Order Gatherers” are the companies that advertise themselves as “Florists” on the Internet or local Yellowpage. They take flower orders through their websites or over the phone, which they subsequently wire out to the real florists in the destination city.
Perhaps the best […]
Posted: October 23rd, 2006 under Fake Florists.
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Example of order-gathering practice by an Internet “Florist”
Let’s say you want to order Sunflowers. You type in “Flower delivery” in Google and find flowerdelivery.com, which is one of many, many web sites run by JustFlowers.
You look for Sunflowers and here’s what you might like. A bit pricey, but the arrangement looks good for the money, if that’s what you will get […]
Posted: October 21st, 2006 under Fake Florists.
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