{"id":663216,"date":"2010-02-12T14:00:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T19:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001894"},"modified":"2010-02-12T14:15:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T19:15:31","slug":"cheaters-ruin-1-800-flowers-chocolate-box-promotion-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/663216","title":{"rendered":"Cheaters Ruin 1-800-Flowers Chocolate Box Promotion For Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The chocolate box\/flowers promotion seemed like a great idea. On certain boxes of Harry London candy sold in chain drugstores, there was a peel-off coupon offering up to $20 off an order from 1-800-Flowers. The problem is that some unscrupulous shoppers went into stores, peeled all of the coupons off, sold some codes on the Internet, and ruined the promotion for everyone. Now 1-800-Flowers has put a stop to the promotion, and is canceling already placed flower orders out from under customers. Not cool.<\/p>\n

1-800-Flowers canceled a string of orders made with the coupon codes that appeared fraudulent. Those customers should receive an e-mail, [a company spokesman] said, asking them to call the company and go through the procedure again.<\/p>\n

“If it’s legitimate,” he said, “we’ll place their order.”<\/p>\n

This displeases customers.<\/p>\n

Some customers bought five, 10 or 20 boxes of chocolates and planned to give the coupons out as gifts. Others fear their flower orders won’t be delivered on Valentine’s Day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The coupon deal has now been transformed into a rebate deal, requiring proof of purchase for the chocolate purchase. Because nothing says “romance” like a giant box of chocolates with the UPC cut out of it. Well, I’d be touched, but I’m weird like that.<\/p>\n

1-800-Flowers.com canceling deliveries, breaking hearts<\/a> [Tampa Bay Online]
\nDEAD? 1800flowers Valentines – $20 off, free shipping, AND 25% BCB *no selling peelies*<\/a> [Slickdeals Forums]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The chocolate box\/flowers promotion seemed like a great idea. On certain boxes of Harry London candy sold in chain drugstores, there was a peel-off coupon offering up to $20 off an order from 1-800-Flowers. The problem is that some unscrupulous shoppers went into stores, peeled all of the coupons off, sold some codes on the […]<\/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-663216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Mx2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663216","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=663216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}