Tricks on Florist.com Flowers!

[daye]

1) I choose florist because they hand deliver the flower. I hate the idea of leaving an Fedex boxed mess on the door way;
2) There are coupons floating on the web that give your $5 off, or, 10% off; but there are better deals;
3) Go through all the checkout procedure, only click 'Back' button on your IE at the very last step, there will be a pop up window asking if you changed your mind, they will give you $10 off. Click that window, and you get $10 off;
4) Search for 'flower' in Google, then on the right hand side, there will be a bunch of purchased links of many online flower stores. Click the link of Florist.com from there, you get a discount for $11.

The discount can not be combined, so the best deal would be going through Google. The price is in the middle range, and there are some good reviews/bad ones too.

[dbaker]

My life experience has shown that hand-delivered flowers are more personal and convenient, yet FedExed flowers will consistently get there.

The failure rate of flower networks and local florists is pretty incredible.

800flowers hand-delivery service has proved to be late about 80% of the time in my vast experience, so I dropped them.

[boris78]

The failure rate of flower networks and local florists is pretty incredible.

I've yet to have a problem with my local florist (which is ftd backed) or 800flowers.com ... The one problem I did have, though, was with a company that sent via fedex.

I guess its one of those circumstances when the quality of the local florists is what matters, not the name standing behind them.

[aznaphrodite]

After Sept. 11th, everything sent to my work has to be screened and X-rayed off site. My boyfriend sent me a Pooh Gram from the Disney Store and the box was stamped by the off site on Feb. 4th. I didn't get it at my desk until Feb. 6th! :( He said he also sent me flowers for V-day and it should come FedEx. What if I don't get it for another two days after it's gone through screening?!

I guess this is what things have come to with "high security"...

[caribiner23]

Whenever possible, I use a local florist ("local" to the delivery area, this is). I rarely have a problem.

I have had several problems with 1800FLOWERS, mostly with the fact that their arrangements are just plain lousy-- bad quality flowers, mostly.

ftd.com has been the most reliable of the online flower sources, IMHO.