Sending Flowers Online

In today’s fast paced digitized, globalized world, there are some things that remain the same, one of them the act of sending flowers to a beloved. There’s something about receiving flowers that an e card cannot replace! If you are not in the city (or even country) that you want flowers delivered in, online is the way to go! You can select from a variety of bouquets and even specify a time for it to be delivered, on some web sites.

1800flowers.com is a neat website, with special weekly offers like ‘buy 12, get 6 free’ and ‘ same day delivery’. They host excellent photographs, and even send fruit baskets. Another good website for flower delivery is www.ftd.com . With sub categories like birthday, anniversary, babies, sympathy and get well they help you select just the right thing for the occasion. Also, they have a convenient ‘shop by price’ option where you can select a price range, and only the products in that range show up on your search. Apart from flowers they also sell (and deliver) balloons, beauty products, collectibles, jewelry and stuffed toys.

www.flora2000.com market themselves as an international enterprise, you can send someone flowers in India, from your office in the US! A very well designed website, with a members only area, and a wide range of subcategories to choose from, this can become a regular flower sender’s favorite in no time. They provide 24/7 customer service.

Most florist websites deliver a similar service, and all of them do have excellent photographs to promote their services online. It may be quite hard to select a particular service as better than its competitors. Maybe it would be better to distinguish first between companies that can deliver in your specified geographical location, and then maybe select from two or three that you find attractive. For most web sites you will need to have a Visa or MasterCard to complete your purchase.

It is surprising that none of the florist websites had a 3d image of a bouquet (3d images let you rotate the object, in this case bouquet, to see it from all sides). This is really catching on in the US, and we can soon expect to see a website on which you will be able to view the bouquet from all sides!

Well, however you choose to send your flowers, which ever website you select, one thing is for sure – you no longer have an excuse NOT to send flowers, or forget a birthday or an anniversary. Sending a gift really is just a click away. Provided you use Visa or Master of course!