I just spent an hour trying to send flowers to a dear friend.
My husband and I agreed on an amount to spend and I went online to find something that could be delivered on the 28th. Simple? NO!!!
The last time I ordered flowers – not very long ago – I looked at the flowers offered, decided, filled out the forms, arranged for payment, and that was that.
THIS TIME, I had to put in zip code, and then they showed me what flowers could be delivered by the 28th. On many of the websites, there weren’t ANY choices that met our financial limit. I don’t know about you, but we like to send flowers reasonably often to show we care, to help celebrate a special occasion, cheer someone up, etc., so we need to stay within our budget as much as possible.
It irks me that a choice that LOOKS like it will be good, ends up charging extra for the vase, extra for the delivery, extra because of the delivery date, if not completely throwing you out, saying that choice can’t be delivered to that zip code at all! They also offer discounts – some of them through email – giving you a code that doesn’t work, or will only work the NEXT time you purchase something. I found an online coupon at another location and tried to paste it into the proper place, but of course, that didn’t work, either. ARRRGH!
After an hour of starting over several times at different websites, I decided to stick as closely as I could to our limit, bite the bullet, and just do it. My husband will probably tell me that HE could have done it and stayed within our limit. If he does, I’ll bite him in the leg and then insist that he DO it next time…
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