Anyone who’s ever searched for florists or flowers online in Canada will probably have come across Bloomex. The company is one of the most aggressive online advertisers going. Bloomex however has attracted a lot of negative reviews, such as Toronto Star consumer advocate Ellen Roseman’s blog on How does Bloomex stay in business?.
Well, now you can watch When you buy from Bloomex, do you get your money’s worth? It’s a video from CBC’s Marketplace and it’s well done, professional quality. They even put in actual orders and had experts evaluate what Bloomex delivered. And their verdict is …
With their rich, autumn-colored hues, marigolds are the quintessential October birth flower. Early Christians called marigolds Mary’s Gold, and placed it by statues of the Virgin Mary. Brilliant and colorful, with a late-harvest warmth and a broad open bloom, marigolds signify affection and grace.
The Office of the Attorney General of New York State has obtained a $640,000 settlement from FTD Inc. over their involvement with companies that tricked consumers into signing up for discount clubs with hidden fees. When completing an online purchase at FTD, consumers would be presented with a discount offer, but that they would be agreeing to transfer their credit or debit card information and to pay monthly fees was buried in fine print and cluttered text.
Under the terms of the settlement, FTD must also permanently end the practice of providing consumers’ billing information to companies that market discount clubs online. FTD’s $640,000 will go into a fund that will pay for consumer education, refunds, and the costs of the investigation.
FTD (a.k.a. “Florists’ Transworld Delivery”), headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois, is one of the biggest players in the floral wire service business in North America. Two other big florist “order gatherer” companies, 1-800-Flowers and Pro Flowers, as well as many other well-known retailers, are also involved in what has been referred to as a “billion dollar web scam”.
According to the Attorney General, the scheme “tricked hundreds of thousands of New York consumers”. But New York is just one state – there are another 49 to go. The precedent may accelerate settlements in other jurisdictions.
The official press release is here. See our January 2010 blog post on FTD and 1-800-Flowers in Scam Probe for more background.
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MoonFlower Florist is off on vacation. We have shut everything up and will not be fulfilling orders in the meantime. Yay for us!
The rose has long been a symbol of love and passion, and is rich with history and meaning. Cleopatra lured Mark Antony with a room knee-deep in rose petals, and the Greek goddess of love Aphrodite presented a rose to Eros. With roses, each color can convey a distinct meaning, and the number of stems can represent a unique message. Roses are appropriate for almost any occasion, and this June birth flower always signifies beauty and perfection.
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MoonFlower Florist is having a sale on all remaining high quality silk plants and flowers – 25% off! These are unique, one-of-a-kind silk arrangements created to showcase our design skills. But now it’s time for them to move on, and so you can get a deal!
Silk flowers and plants make great permanent decor items. They are almost zero maintenance and can last for years. Display them in your home to create a welcoming ambiance and that touch of nature. Silks are also ideal for the office, to brighten up a reception area or to spruce up a boardroom. And you don’t have to water them, ever.
Our silk flowers and plants also make a great gift. They are distinctive works of floral art that will be appreciated for a long time.
See them all here at MoonFlower Silks. But hurry, there’s only one of each, once they’re gone, they’re gone!
We have just put some new corsages and boutonnieres on our website, and just in time for prom too! By the way, these are MoonFlower exclusive designs, and you won’t find them anywhere else.
Here’s one of our new corsages on the left, featuring beautiful and exotic mokara orchids. It comes with a copper bracelet, and can be worn on your wrist or arm.
And you guys out there, don’t feel left out, because there’s a matching boutonniere too. In fact, MoonFlower Florist has several sets of matching corsages and boutonnieres.
You can see it all in the “Contemporary” category on our website in Formal and Event Flowers.
Mother’s Day will soon be here, on Sunday, May 9. Don’t forget your Mom on Mother’s Day!
It’s probably the busiest day of the year for florists, and there’s only so much delivery capacity available. If you’re going to get her flowers, it’s a really good idea to get your order in early to avoid disappointment. Now would be a good time to have a look at MoonFlower Florist’s selection of Mother’s Day flowers.
And if you’re a Dad, don’t forget the mother of your children! You may want to choose something from our flowers for love and romance collection.
By the way, MoonFlower Florist will be open on Mother’s Day Sunday from 9 am to 4 pm, but only for phone order pick-up and personal shopping.
In the language of flowers, this May birth flower represents purity of heart, majesty, and honor. Lilies were revered by the ancient Greeks who believed they sprouted from the milk of Hera, the queen of the gods. There are many varieties of lilies. The white Madonna lily represents virtue and is associated with the Virgin Mary. The lily of the valley conveys humility and sweetness.
We came across an interesting webpage graph generator created by by Marcel Salathe. So without further delay, here it is, a “webgraph” of The MoonFlower Blog!
No, we don’t what it means either. But it looks neat and it kind of looks like flowers which is at least appropriate!
The colours stand for different types of HTML tags. Black is the HTML tag for the root node, which we suppose means the “start” (it’s a lone dot close to the top, right of centre). Blue shows links (the A tag). Red is for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags). Green denotes the DIV tag. Violet is for images (the IMG tag). Yellow is for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags). Orange denotes linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags). And Gray is for all other tags. Hmm…
But the good news is that you can actually watch a video of the graph creating itself and even do your own. Click here: MoonFlower Blog Graph, The Movie! This will open in a new page. If you miss the start, just refresh the page and it will begin again.
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