Addington's Florist at 1836 South Tamiami Trail, Venice, Florida.

I don't even know what to say. I placed a Mother's Day order online on Monday, for Friday delivery. Got a call back on Tuesday that they don't deliver to the address, and would shred the order if they didn't hear from me. I called back Wednesday morning, and they said they couldn't even find the order, so had probably already destroyed it. So I made other arrangements. THEN they called back on Thursday 2 times: first to complain that I hadn't called them back (???) and that they would destroy the order. THEN again to say, oops -- they read the address wrong and they really DO deliver to the address. So they WOULD fulfill the order (the one that they couldn't find on Wednesday???) I called the next morning, and they said their criteria had changed -- it need to be a higher dollar threshold for them to even deal with it. So, whether or not they actually would deliver to the address, now they want to reject the order because it wasn't $$$ enough. Bottom line -- they don't want your business and will find a way to reject it.

I will be watching my credit card statements carefully to make sure I don't get charged for this order!

I prefer to work with local florists when I can, but this one was far too much trouble. This pain is easily avoided:

If you have a minimum order, then don't advertise arrangements for less than that threshold. If you don't want to deliver to a certain zip code, then don't advertise that you do. It will save everyone so much time and hassle.