Is it a full moon or something because we had unimaginable weirdness in our customers today at Flowers-O-Suck!
One of our competitors is running a radio ad for a dozen roses with free shipping for 29 bucks so we had people calling up demanding we match that price. We never match competitors sales ads for things like that because it's not even remotely possible to do. Try explaining to people all day long that the 29 dollar deal is only on substandard sized short or medium stemmed roses shipping a box with no vase and we don't carry anything below premium long stemmed in a vase. Our price is our price regardless of whatever the competition runs.
But that wasn't what made today a big old batch of crazycakes, it was a few of the callers that just kept on calling over and over.
Crazycake #1 - When asked for her credit card number started blubbering and crying that she was homeless, working three jobs and her daughter wouldn't speak to her because she's suing her ex husband. She immediately started demanding from each of us to know what she should do.
Crazycake #2 - Called something like 15 times, seemed perfectly normal until, you guessed it, you got to the credit card number, then she dissolved into rants about how her house was possessed with demons and that the demons made mold grow on the furniture and how she was going to move to another country.
Crazycake #3 - Kept calling to order and demanding only to give her order to a 'non-Caucasian' before going off into a long rant about slavery and demons and white folks.
I'm ready for a drink!
One of our competitors is running a radio ad for a dozen roses with free shipping for 29 bucks so we had people calling up demanding we match that price. We never match competitors sales ads for things like that because it's not even remotely possible to do. Try explaining to people all day long that the 29 dollar deal is only on substandard sized short or medium stemmed roses shipping a box with no vase and we don't carry anything below premium long stemmed in a vase. Our price is our price regardless of whatever the competition runs.
But that wasn't what made today a big old batch of crazycakes, it was a few of the callers that just kept on calling over and over.
Crazycake #1 - When asked for her credit card number started blubbering and crying that she was homeless, working three jobs and her daughter wouldn't speak to her because she's suing her ex husband. She immediately started demanding from each of us to know what she should do.
Crazycake #2 - Called something like 15 times, seemed perfectly normal until, you guessed it, you got to the credit card number, then she dissolved into rants about how her house was possessed with demons and that the demons made mold grow on the furniture and how she was going to move to another country.
Crazycake #3 - Kept calling to order and demanding only to give her order to a 'non-Caucasian' before going off into a long rant about slavery and demons and white folks.
I'm ready for a drink!
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