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1-800-Flowers.com Complaint - Mail the CEO with your complaints! I did! - Lack of service, product but full of lies
Lack of service, product but full of lies - Complaint
CARLE PLACE, NEW YORK -- MAIL THE CEO WITH YOUR COMPLAINTS. I JUST DID!
April 16, 2011
Mr. Jim McCann RE: Order Confirmation W00431005191361
CEO
1800Flowers
One Old Country Road
Suite 500
Carle Place, NY 11514
Mr. McCann,
Picture this. Your 81 year old mother sits home alone on her birthday in anticipation of the flowers her children send her annually. She waits all day. And waits… and waits… Nothing comes. She feels her children have forgotten her birthday. Her heart is broken.
That is exactly what just happened (again!) this week.
Can’t relate to an elderly mother? How angry would be feel if you personally ordered flowers for your wife on Valentine’s Day and nothing showed up until 2-3 days later? How would she feel? This is what happens when your company cannot deliver what it promises.
I know as a company reaching a billion dollars in revenues, you probably don’t care about this situation, but rather revenues, profitability and shareholder satisfaction. But I do, so please read on.
In order to assure our mother would receive her flowers ON her birthday, I ordered them the morning of 4/14/2011, for a delivery on 4/15/2011, as you will see from my confirmation and the (useless and erroneous) “tracking” page your company sends out.
The tracking page states the order status as “Delivery on Truck”, which was a blatant lie. I called this morning, 4/16/2011 at 9:00am and asked if the representative could contact the florist, as your policy prohibits your customer from actually speaking to them.
I was placed on hold for roughly ten minutes, and when the representative came back on, I was told the flowers would be delivered by noon today, a day AFTER her birthday and the order delivery date. AGAIN, THEY WERE NOT!
I emailed your customer service dept and explained this situation, and basically, the only response was that they could not give out the florist’s info for me to personally contact. They NEVER EVEN ADDRESSED THE ISSUE OF NON-DELIVERY! Is that what your company considers “customer service”? (I’ve included this ridiculous correspondence as well.)
I called, yet again, at noon and spoke with another rep, who told me he is seeing the delivery date as 4/16/2011 – again, erroneous by all counts, as the enclosed documentation states. The earlier representative must have changed the delivery date.
Either way, I asked the second customer “service” representative to call the florist again, to verify that they were at least in route. When the representative came back on, I was now told they could have them delivered by 3:00pm.
Let’s sum this up –
•I ordered the flowers at about 11:00am (CST) on Thursday for a Friday Delivery.
•By Friday afternoon at 3:19pm (CST), the status stated “Delivery on Truck”
•Friday came and went – NO DELIVERY
•Saturday morning 9:00am (CST) I speak with a “customer service” representative who tells me the order, albeit already a day late, will be delivered by noon. My mother would not be home after 12:30, as I explained to the fist representative
•I emailed customer service, and nothing about the order was even addressed – just the protection of the florist’s identity and the canned, scripted email I’ve attached.
•I called at around 11:30am (CST) and was now told they would be there by 3:00pm, which was now, too late.
•Furious at how inept your system, process and communication (or lack of) is, I canceled the order.
Do you see how absolutely ridiculous the process is? Do you have enough heart, compassion and understanding to realize how missed dates of your product deliveries effect loved ones?
I have ordered from your company for many, many years, but this was the last straw. I don’t care at all about the “refund” that was supposed to placate me. I care about the emotions of my elderly mother.
Again, I doubt you even care about this, but if you Google “1800Flowers suck”, you will see countless opinion boards with stories of this happening daily! And each story affected someone’s feelings. Are you even aware of how many “customers” feel this way?
Your business practice is an absolute shame, and I just had to share my experience and opinions with you.
Enjoy your wealth and success, Mr. McCann. But know that while you may get it right once and a while, you are doing it very wrong way too often, and it affects people’s feelings and relationships, which I truly doubt is any concern for you or things would be much, much different.
Disappointed beyond belief,
(Name and Signature)
April 16, 2011
Mr. Jim McCann RE: Order Confirmation W00431005191361
CEO
1800Flowers
One Old Country Road
Suite 500
Carle Place, NY 11514
Mr. McCann,
Picture this. Your 81 year old mother sits home alone on her birthday in anticipation of the flowers her children send her annually. She waits all day. And waits… and waits… Nothing comes. She feels her children have forgotten her birthday. Her heart is broken.
That is exactly what just happened (again!) this week.
Can’t relate to an elderly mother? How angry would be feel if you personally ordered flowers for your wife on Valentine’s Day and nothing showed up until 2-3 days later? How would she feel? This is what happens when your company cannot deliver what it promises.
I know as a company reaching a billion dollars in revenues, you probably don’t care about this situation, but rather revenues, profitability and shareholder satisfaction. But I do, so please read on.
In order to assure our mother would receive her flowers ON her birthday, I ordered them the morning of 4/14/2011, for a delivery on 4/15/2011, as you will see from my confirmation and the (useless and erroneous) “tracking” page your company sends out.
The tracking page states the order status as “Delivery on Truck”, which was a blatant lie. I called this morning, 4/16/2011 at 9:00am and asked if the representative could contact the florist, as your policy prohibits your customer from actually speaking to them.
I was placed on hold for roughly ten minutes, and when the representative came back on, I was told the flowers would be delivered by noon today, a day AFTER her birthday and the order delivery date. AGAIN, THEY WERE NOT!
I emailed your customer service dept and explained this situation, and basically, the only response was that they could not give out the florist’s info for me to personally contact. They NEVER EVEN ADDRESSED THE ISSUE OF NON-DELIVERY! Is that what your company considers “customer service”? (I’ve included this ridiculous correspondence as well.)
I called, yet again, at noon and spoke with another rep, who told me he is seeing the delivery date as 4/16/2011 – again, erroneous by all counts, as the enclosed documentation states. The earlier representative must have changed the delivery date.
Either way, I asked the second customer “service” representative to call the florist again, to verify that they were at least in route. When the representative came back on, I was now told they could have them delivered by 3:00pm.
Let’s sum this up –
•I ordered the flowers at about 11:00am (CST) on Thursday for a Friday Delivery.
•By Friday afternoon at 3:19pm (CST), the status stated “Delivery on Truck”
•Friday came and went – NO DELIVERY
•Saturday morning 9:00am (CST) I speak with a “customer service” representative who tells me the order, albeit already a day late, will be delivered by noon. My mother would not be home after 12:30, as I explained to the fist representative
•I emailed customer service, and nothing about the order was even addressed – just the protection of the florist’s identity and the canned, scripted email I’ve attached.
•I called at around 11:30am (CST) and was now told they would be there by 3:00pm, which was now, too late.
•Furious at how inept your system, process and communication (or lack of) is, I canceled the order.
Do you see how absolutely ridiculous the process is? Do you have enough heart, compassion and understanding to realize how missed dates of your product deliveries effect loved ones?
I have ordered from your company for many, many years, but this was the last straw. I don’t care at all about the “refund” that was supposed to placate me. I care about the emotions of my elderly mother.
Again, I doubt you even care about this, but if you Google “1800Flowers suck”, you will see countless opinion boards with stories of this happening daily! And each story affected someone’s feelings. Are you even aware of how many “customers” feel this way?
Your business practice is an absolute shame, and I just had to share my experience and opinions with you.
Enjoy your wealth and success, Mr. McCann. But know that while you may get it right once and a while, you are doing it very wrong way too often, and it affects people’s feelings and relationships, which I truly doubt is any concern for you or things would be much, much different.
Disappointed beyond belief,
(Name and Signature)
Comments:
Posted by Alain on 2011-04-18:
Thanks for the address. It may come in handy.
Posted by Chris on 2013-01-23:
I understand their is probably a rush delivery( next day delivery) but how could you wait until the day before to order these flowers? I see your problem, but your not in a perfect world and it never will be. Good luck to you, but try to order the flowers a few days earlier to ensure delivery maybe> ?
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