{"id":663209,"date":"2010-02-12T16:45:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T21:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002030"},"modified":"2010-02-12T17:18:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T22:18:05","slug":"how-a-19-99-flower-arrangement-costs-49-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/663209","title":{"rendered":"How A $19.99 Flower Arrangement Costs $49.95"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/3279931869_ce9726e096_m-thumb-240x224-36973.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/proflowerswtf-thumb-600x553-36972.gif?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Craig writes that he found a great deal from Proflowers recently: a dozen roses for $19.99. Good boyfriend and sensible shopper that he is, he ordered them for Valentine&#8217;s Day, only to discover that the delivery charges and holiday surcharges made the cost more than double.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I happened to catch a deal on tv, (PBS Sprout) for proflowers.com . I decided to bite the bullet and buy my girlfriend some flowers valentines day.  The promo gave me a nice $19.99 dozen roses with a vase.  I selected it and proceeded through the checkout, but nowhere in the checkout did it say the price until the final page, where you were to confirm your order.<\/p>\n<p>The screenshot shows how a $19.99 product can become a $49.99.  I think this is ludicrous, and have now written off Proflowers.com, and went with a local shop instead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"proflowerswtf.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/2010\/02\/12\/proflowerswtf.gif?resize=600%2C553\" width=\"600\" height=\"553\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig writes that he found a great deal from Proflowers recently: a dozen roses for $19.99. Good boyfriend and sensible shopper that he is, he ordered them for Valentine&#8217;s Day, only to discover that the delivery charges and holiday surcharges made the cost more than double. I happened to catch a deal on tv, (PBS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2758,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2MwV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}