Just spent $50 for 2 flower bouquet's to be delivered. One to my mom and one to MIL. I think that is a pretty good deal and along with that I get free shipping and fees on any flower orders for the next year.
FTD (which had the best reviews online for the flowers looking like the photos and being quality) had an initial coupon code for $10 off any order. I didn't go real fancy with the bouquets. They are flowers after all and they die in a week - LOL. They were having a special half price on a spring type bouquet for $19.99 (I didn't do the upgrades offered).
All well and good on the price of it, but shipping for each order would have been more than the price of the bouquet! about $22 each. Um....that seems a bit ridiculous, even with the $10 off the whole order, it would have cost me about $75 total. I noticed they were offering a "Gold Membership" for a one time fee of $19.99 that would give you free shipping/delivery fees on all orders for the next year. Well, shoot, I might as well do that. It will pay for one shipping and make the other one free - even if I didn't place another order in the next year, my total on this order would be $50, after applying the $10 off code.
I've set myself a calendar reminder to order next years birthday/Mother's Day before the year is up and take advantage of it, before I cancel the subscription and not get charged for another year.
I'm sure the flowers will be lovely! My mom was in a nursing home the last 10 years or so of her life and it was SO hard to think of something to get her. I would usually end up sending flowers or something from The Popcorn Factory.
ReplyDeleteit is so hard to buy gifts for those in nursing homes. My grandma was in one for a few years and usually just got her flowers and chocolates.
DeleteI did a mystery shop where flowers were sent to my home by the shopping company. I had to check the order to see if it was the same as the photograph I received from the mystery shop. The orderer knew how many of each kind of flowers was to be in the arrangement. No, I did not get the right number of larger flowers and got many cheaper and smaller flowers. Plus, there was no gorgeous vase, just a clear one that usually come from florists. While the bouquet was pretty, it was NOT what was sent to me.
ReplyDeletethat's good companies do that, so they can find out if the florists are representing them well. I'm wish my mom had a phone on her camera so she could take a pic for me so I could see it when she gets it. I might have my SIL see if she can take one of the one my MIL gets.
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