A friend of T's went into hospital for some serious surgery and we wanted to send G some flowers to make him feel a little better. I went online to FTD as they had a good reputation.
The flowers I ordered were these:
This is what he received:
Approximately 20 minutes later FTD tweets me asking what they can do. Told them that customer service was redelivering and I would keep them posted.
Following day I received a text from G. This is what he got.
15 minutes later FTD Corporate calls me apologizing profusely and asking what would it take to make me happy and remove my Twittah pics. I told them there wasn't anything, G was happy with the flowers, but that I was very disappointed.
Nancy agreed with me and because I posted the pictures it was validated. Needless to say I would hate to be that florist.
I was refunded my $70.00 and today they sent the most gorgeous Vera Wang bouquet direct from their growers to G. He texted me a picture.
The vase arrived broken.
I often wonder of the FTD bouquets show up looking up like they show on the website. Clearly they don't. Good job with the twitter pics!
ReplyDeleteisn't it fun when you can make a company sit up & pay attention to how they're treating people? you're about the fifth person this month who i've heard complain about flowers showing up looking like shit. i bet it's always been this way, but no one had phone cameras to verify how crappy the flowers were.
ReplyDeleteGood lord, they are incompetent! I'm so glad you to this to the Twittah.
ReplyDeleteStrike 3! You're out FTD! At least the public embarrassment they earned themselves got you a refund.
ReplyDeleteIve always used ftd and never had a problem, so sad you did :(
ReplyDeleteVera Wang = Cool,,, But a broken vase? The delivery person is incompetent. It does say something about FTD's business ethic if corporate called you, however they seem to have trouble in the execution part. Kudos to you for holding them accountable. I think I need to rediscover Twitter.
ReplyDeleteSorry about the hassle getting what you paid for, but man, Twitter is quite the tool.
ReplyDeletewow really - that's interesting. People at City Hall sometime say "I read your Tweet' and this surprises me because I didn't think anyone read my tweets and had forgotten about them.
ReplyDeleteAh Jeeze! I had a similar experience with 1800-Flowers. I ordered some orchids in a vase (gorgeous vase) and they arrived without a vase but with little water plastic things on the bottom of the flowers. Annoying! But they did make it right after my complaint.
ReplyDelete"The vase arrived broken."
ReplyDeleteDamn it to hell!
First, thanks for Re-tweeting for me. :-)
ReplyDeleteAnd well done on sticking to your guns and taking the issue public when the issue wasn't corrected properly.