How to send flowers online

When you want to send flowers it's a special occasion – Mother's Day, Valentines, Easter, Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries etc – so you want to get the best possible value for money, the freshest flowers and the best design. 

Most of us turn to the internet for our shopping needs and for our research these days, and sending flowers is no different. 

There has been a rapid growth in online flower delivery services – Interflora, FlowersDirect, Tesco, Sainsbury's, Next, Serenata to name just a few. 

With most UK flower delivery services, supermarkets and retail brands manufacturing some or all of their flower bouquets in a warehouse before putting them into boxes and posting or delivering them, you do not really know HOW your floral gift is produced or sent. In fact, many recipients will actually receive a very different service from the one they thought you were paying for. 

In order to ensure that you are sending your order direct to a real local florist, and getting full flower value you need to search for the florist closest to the delivery address. 

This is fine in principle, but sometimes you don't have enough time, and also some of these flower delivery services can make themselves look like real local flower shops.

A first in the industry, direct to florist puts customers in direct touch with the real local florist. This passes on major savings to the customer whilst ensuring larger bouquets are delivered. 

There are no middlemen, no hidden corporate costs, no percentage discounts, no hidden charges, and no advertising deductions. This site passes 100% of your flower money to the florist giving you bigger and fuller bouquets from real local florist. 

Direct2florist charges a small service fee to operate the site, promote the site and transmit your order. There are no hidden charges. The money you spend on flowers is exactly that - your flower money! By going direct you receive better value from direct2florist. By ordering from this site, your order is instantly transmitted to the florist of your choice. The confirmation email we send to you provides you with the florists contact telephone number. So you are safe in the knowledge you are in contact with the florist. With direct2florist "It's like you walked in to the shop and paid over the counter!" 

What's more direct2florist invite you to "star rate" their service. After every delivery they send you a confirmation email to confirm your order has been delivered and invite you to star rate the florist. 5 Stars is the maximum awarded for outstanding service.

Online US & Canada Shopping Forum

I believe I won't be alone when I say that shopping take time, especially when making major purchases or trying to buy rare items. Shoppers like me do as much research as they can on the item of interest, to buy the best one available at the lowest possible price. I usually do my research on the item first, reading customer reviews, and then I look for the stores that offer the best price, after that comes the time to do my research on those stores and that's where it gets complicated. There are great resources available on the web that offer help on choosing the right thing, but sometimes one needs to connect with other fellow shoppers and ask them something, be it their shopping experiences or just some advice. 

With the online shopping revolution many stores became globally available. Even if they have physical locations only in one or two countries, they may offer worldwide shipping. 

This phenomenon significantly widens the pool of shoppers who potentially could give me some advice regarding a particular store or a brand name. And since the World Wide Web was the one to globalize shopping, it is, therefore, the right place for all the shoppers to connect and discuss shopping-related issues.

While there are quite a few shopping forums, I find them very chaotic and disorganized; there are many users and no structure, making it very easy for many focused topics to go unnoticed by their target audience because of the amount of other postings and spam. 

That's when I decided to build a shopping forum that would address these issues and make it easier for people like me to seek advice from our fellow shoppers. While not everyone will appreciate the idea, I just want to let the word out, so people like me know where to go for shopping advice next time they need it.