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Dice-K looks to dent win column with Mets in series finale in Cleveland
With every game, the Indians face an important opportunity to improve their playoff chances. And during every game, manager Terry Francona gets nervous.
"I think it's a good nervous," Francona said. "I want our guys to do well so bad."
Francona's nerves will have to hold a bit longer. With their 9-4 win over the Mets on Saturday, the Indians kept pace with the Orioles as both clubs moved to within one game of the final American League Wild Card spot. The Rays, who hold that second spot, lost to the Mariners.
Cleveland has won five of its past six games in large part because of the starting rotation, which has a combined 2.23 ERA during that span. Right-hander Danny Salazar will hope to keep that trend going Sunday, when he will make his seventh Major League start. The 23-year-old right-hander will be pitching on six days' rest after throwing six scoreless innings on Sept. 1.
"He was efficient," Francona said of Salazar's last outing. "His future is obviously exciting. I mean, it's exciting now."
Salazar will face one of his old teammates at Triple-A Columbus in Mets starter Daisuke Matsuzaka. Matsuzaka spent nearly five months with Columbus before signing with the Mets as a temporary solution to their depleted rotation, a move that has certainly not worked out well so far.
In Matsuzaka's three starts with New York, he is 0-3 with a 10.95 ERA and 2.11 WHIP. He has faced 64 batters over 12 1/3 innings and allowed 15 earned runs. Despite his poor performance, manager Terry Collins didn't seem eager to pull him from the rotation. The Mets don't have many better options.
"There's no reason why we don't probably run him back out there again," Collins said after Matsuzaka's last start. "He's got to get going for us. We've got a lot more games to play this month, and he's going to be part of those games right now."
Indians: Gomes grabs bulk of playing time at catcher
The Indians have a problem behind the plate. Fortunately for Francona, it's a great problem to have.
With the presence of Carlos Santana and recent production of Yan Gomes, the Indians have two reliable catchers vying for playing time. Recently, the advantage has gone to Gomes. Since Aug. 1, he has been behind the plate for 193 innings -- including a start Saturday night -- compared to Santana's 116 2/3 innings. Francona has instead been using Santana as a designated hitter or first baseman to keep his bat in the lineup.
"Right now, fortunately, we seem to have two everyday catchers," Francona said. "That's pretty fortunate. We just try to use it to our advantage."
Mets: Wright to rehab in New York
As David Wright continues to rehab his strained right hamstring, he will do so with the Mets in New York.
Wright originally wanted to rehab in Port St. Lucie, Fla., to face live pitching. But with the end of Class A Advanced St. Lucie's season and injuries to pitchers there, finding arms to face has been difficult. A few members of the Mets' training staff in Port St. Lucie have also had health issues, preventing Wright from receiving enough individual treatment.
"I talked to David two days ago. He feels great. He just said, 'Look, there's nobody here to face,'" Collins said. "We need to get him up to where he can get some treatment done."
Worth noting
• With another stolen base Saturday night, Mets outfielder Eric Young Jr. now has seven stolen bases in his past nine games. He has 20 steals since the All-Star break, the most in the Major Leagues.
• After not scoring eight runs at home since July 26, the Indians have now crossed that threshold in each of their past two games. They are 19-1 when scoring eight or more.
Tom Schad is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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As a southerner, born and raised in the State of South Carolina and a direct descendant of Confederate veterans who counts Confederate Brigadier Generals George and Gabriel Rains as family I must express my deep disgust and displeasure with State Representative Elizabeth Porter's opposition to a Union memorial at the Olustee battlefield.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy notwithstanding, the men who fought and died in that battle on both sides did so in defense of their beliefs whether you and I share those beliefs or not. Read More »
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A few months ago I was in Tallahassee and Adam Putnam, the Commissioner of Agriculture, spoke on the topic of Florida's water supply and how important preserving it was to bringing industry and manufacturing, along with preserving agriculture in the state of Florida.
As I listened to his speech I thought about the issue of sand mining here in Baker County and our water supply. If it was damaged in some way, what that would cost us in the future with a manufacturing company or industry that could possibly bring us hundreds of jobs in Baker County instead of the six promised. Read More »
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It's exactly a year before Charlie Crist and Rick Scott square off in the governor's race. But that doesn't stop Scott or one of his proxies from airing an attack ad about Crist. I'm sure within a week, Crist, who just announced his candidacy, will fire back with an attack ad of his own. Read More »


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Very nice, ich hope he take a look next at the x264 openCL Kernel for the lookahead.
Anyone still interested in the bitcoin bubble?
Poor Tom, bitcoins are now worthless (again).
Not really worthless, its sitting at $140. Its a market correction for the fact its been climbing up to $260 gradually for the last few months.
And as far as it being a pyramid scheme...eeeh idk about that. Its more of a commodity than anything else. Its less of a currency and more of a single option stock market lol
The nice thing about Linux is that you can run whatever you want. So if you want to mine bitcoins, great. If you think that bitcoins are a waste of electricity, awesome. Linux now accomodates both of you.
Bitcoins aside, it's good to hear about real applications working on Clover + r600g. It's always nice for a developer to have a goal other than "Make everything work, everywhere". Focusing on single applications, getting them to work, and then moving on to the next application gives you much smaller milestones to use to guide and check your progress... And once you've got a few applications working, the next application gets easier (or might even work out of the box).
It's also nice to get a shout-out for the rotate implementation (however slow it might be).
That's it!
Who cares about bitcoins, but it's a real app, and it works, which means we're getting closer. Once most things work, it's time to start optimising.
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Knee microfracture surgery is a common procedure used to repair damaged knee cartilage. Cartilage helps cushion and cover the area where bones meet in the joints.
Cartilage regeneration - knee
Three types of anesthesia may be used for knee arthroscopy surgery:
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You may need this procedure if you have damage to the cartilage in the knee joint and under the kneecap.
The goal of this surgery is to prevent or slow further damage to the cartilage. This will help prevent knee arthritis. It can help you avoid the need for a partial or total knee replacement.
This procedure is also used to treat knee pain due to cartilage injuries.
A surgery called autologous chondrocyte implantation is done for similar reasons.
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Short, but interesting article, thanks!
Phoronix: Valve Talks Linux Gaming At The Ubuntu Summit
As expected, a Valve engineer spoke at UDS today about their forthcoming Steam client for Linux release...
Short, but interesting article, thanks!
I attended the talk and wouldn't say he said anything about disliking Windows 8. He did say that their motivation for supporting Linux was based on Microsoft/Apple making it more difficult for Valve with their own stores.
I got to talk to Drew a little afterwared about package managment. Steam it self should delivered in a deb package. It's also posible that games will have dummy packages that call Steam to allow handeling install/remove via your distributions normal tools, but this is still being evaluated. In general they want to leave the install methode up to the game developer and only handle the minimal for download, install and running the right executable. Definatly no dependency handeling.
That's exactly what i thought - the ui does not really matter but the store integration does. Currently it would be a bit stupid to sell games only in the Win app store - MS still needs more users, maybe MS has to give away Win for free to get the required market share. Currently it is not that expensive, but with 15-30$/ offers limited up to january they do not get enough users within a short time. For Apple this looks very different - there i think Valve already lost as the os upgrades are even cheaper - i would like to know how many Intel macs are out there without the store application. Most games will be sold in more than one store soon and Linux is certainly a way to increase market share - this will lead to more Mac apps too. Also as hardware gets usually cheaper each year with the same or more performance a "Steambox" would not be a too far away possibility. Some might say cloud gaming is the future, that might be true if the high bandwidth connections via cable for fibre are the default but this will take some extra time. The PS4 most likely will use offline media for games to have access to low bandwidth internet users - a "Steambox" would require online only but does not require an extra fast connection as there is no streaming. Well only time will tell whos idea was the best.
I live in copenhagen and would really like to participate in the valve beta. Do I just show up at the developer summit? Ive got work and go there early and come home late so its kind of hard to attend really...
Translation: having a built-in store in a popular OS scares the crap out of a game distribution company that makes almost all of its money taking 30% off the top of the rest of the PC game industry's sales. One wonders what Gabe's opinion of Ubuntu would be if more than 10 people even remembered that Ubuntu had a store, what it's name is, or whether it even had any games or not.
You can not compare the U store with steam. There the community/awards part is fully missing. Many sales happen because you see that your friends play a specific game and you want to compete with em. Without any rating - points, awards it would be much less fun - those features you usually miss when you cp the game...
I may be naive, but I always saw it as Valve "hedging their bets" in case Windows/OSX become even more of a closed platform. With both operating systems having a store now, there is nothing stopping either party from halting all installation of software outside the store. This can be further speculated that, why would a corporation allow distribution of free software in their market? There is nothing to gain except bandwidth that isn't producing income.
I see Valve as the benevolent dictator that is trying to do it's best for the small community it has. It wants to be an enabler for content creation. Valve is not driven by fear of losing profit, but a fear losing a community with creativity. Games are an artform that give users experiences.
I support Linux because I believe operating systems should be built on a set of standards as to allow inter-operation. This way no single entity could control content creation. Linux can always be forked at any time. BSD can as well. There is a substantial amount of software that can run on both. Having two large corporations dictating our experience with computers is not good for anyone. This is only my opinion though.


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Gallardo aims to extend Crew's streak, facing Volquez
Pitchers face off hoping to build on strong start to the season
When his crew prepares to go up against a tough pitcher, a manager is apt to urge the players to "make contact and make things happen."
That exhortation does not work against Brewers right-hander Yovani Gallardo, who on Sunday did the impossible: He delivered 109 pitches against the Boston Red Sox, who did not swing and miss at a single one of them. And, yet, Gallardo shut out the Red Sox for 6 2/3 innings, setting up a 4-0 Milwaukee win.
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Gallardo's own manager, Ron Roenicke, thinks a game like the one in Boston "just happens."
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Opposing Gallardo will be Edinson Volquez, part of the Pirates' unprecedented Dominican Connection. Along with Francisco Liriano and Wandy Rodriguez, he gives Pittsburgh the first rotation ever to include three natives of the Dominican Republic.
While it certainly was not the plan, Hurdle counts on the fraternity helping the pitchers through the season.
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The Pirates hope that will not be necessary following Volquez's second start. In the first, he held St. Louis to one run and four hits through 5 2/3 innings Sunday.
Some other countrymen will have opportunities to ruin Volquez's encore. Milwaukee's regular lineup includes a trio of Dominicans: Aramis Ramirez, Carlos Gomez and Jean Segura.
Pirates: Morris moving up the bullpen chain
Bryan Morris, who did not know he had made the Opening Day roster until the final day of Spring Training, may be moving up the Bucs' bullpen chain. The right-handed reliever had another solid outing Friday, notching three strikeouts in his two innings.
"The first five hitters … he was just electric," Hurdle said. "Live fastball, a very hard cutter that had great action; you saw some really funny swings."
Brewers: Gomez gets the Gold
Carlos Gomez will receive his Rawlings Gold Glove in a ceremony before Saturday's game -- with the guy from whom he took it, Andrew McCutchen, watching from the other dugout.
Gomez is the Brewers' first Gold Glove winner since Robin Yount in 1982.
Gomez's bat first attracted attention, and it is again a top attribute. He is batting .386 with three homers and seven RBIs.
Worth noting
• Ryan Braun beat out a bunt for his only hit in four at-bats Friday night, and is 2-for-15 in four games at Miller Park.
• All of the Pirates' scoring their last three games -- 12 runs -- have come on eight home runs.
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Phoronix: What Would You Like To See Next From Phoronix?
With there just being seven days until Phoronix turns seven years old, it's time for an annual review. Aside from the ongoing what would you like to see next, your feedback is welcome regarding other improvements you would like to see made...
a flattr button may be a good idea.
like for fedora 15, debian 6, ubuntu lts, redhat6, centos, freebsd and archlinux
1) .deb installer for Ubuntu of latest phoronix benchmarking test suite from site.
2) A (much) more intuitive and faster/easier solution for novice users (regarding the benchmarking test suite) on what to download, how to install, how to run a benchmark, which ones are available. Currently one has to read (tedious) documentation here and there, the installer I tried out like a month or 2 ago didn't even install on Ubuntu (10.10), the one Ubuntu ships with - is too old, and when I managed to install the latest one from the site - it told me I needed to install some other packages for it to work properly and then get some benchmarks from somewhere else to run them.. I mean it's not as easy and quick to get up and running as it should be, as Ubuntu is. To be massively successful imo one should strive to be as easy and quick to get up and running as possible (like Ubuntu).
Other than that, imo phoronix is the best linux news source, among other things because it doesn't feature articles like "top 5 reasons why bla-bla is better than bla-bla" and because while being rather technical it uses a language which non-tech savvy folks can understand (and because unlike slashdot it isn't involved in political propaganda).
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PhoroniX Radio - Linux news and Death Metal. This is what I need.
Hello Michael,
Your site is awesome : it gives bleeding edge informations on a given technology or software...
But when the moment of a global hardware purchase comes, I struggle, and I think Phoronix could perhaps make my live easier.
For example :
. your site gives some "measure/facts" I don't find elsewhere, but paradoxally, I can only use it only as a qualitative information, because I have difficulties to use them for my bigger picture.
. as a "screaming for silent laptops" user, I Look for the best "non-gamer" ratio, which would be, let say :
"euros (sum of the components "HDD+RAM+CPU+battery")"
*"wi-fi surfing up-time"
/"boot time"
/"weight" (sum of the components ..)
/"max(components noise)",
==> Suggestion : Could Phoronix provide a sort of scorecard section (watt, euros, weight, boot time effect) on components it tests, so users could compute their optimal "bill-of-components" indicator on a spreadsheet (or web spreadsheet) ?
Ideal situation :
- I define my "ideal" ratio,
- I print the "weighted top 10" combinations that Phoronix provides me,
- then I go with that shopping list compass on my usual shop/webshop.
==> Phoronix provides me a digestible information
==> Phoronix gets more visitors traffic
==> Hardware manufacturer can get some "visitors ratio" indications from Phoronix to optimize their value proposition
==> It wouldn't require more work from the redactors than today as it's just rough summary datas.
- benchmark more interesting games like ETQW, TA Spring, Unreal Tournament 2004.
- collect funds to pay freelance developpers in order to improve the free drivers. For example: collect 2000 $ to implement a specific functionnality in r600g.
Couple of things.
Cosmetic changes:
-First thing to do is fix the background. The transition from white to grey is broken. It goes a little like white... light grey... drank gray bar (few pixels long) and then a little lighter grey for the rest. This bad transition annoys me every time I look at the homepage.
-Second thing to fix is letting the forums have the same color scheme. Make everything as dark as the main page (my eyes are bleeding from the white).
-Round edges around everything. This is basically also like Slashdot. It's easyer on the brain.
Functional changes:
-Seperate rumor/speculation/inside info box (below news box). I enjoy rumors, but some people hate it.
-Login box on the main page like Slashdot.
-A direct link to the YouTube page below the embedded video. I use VLC now instead of Flash. I need a direct URL for VLC streaming.
-AMD FLOSS Vs. Catalyst graph corner, with daily changes so you can compare performance and see how propietary and FLOSS progress/regress. This would be very cool. Maybe include daily nVidia blob Vs. Nouveau and even Intel to the mix. This would be a very cool performance tracker to check out on a daily basis
-Consistant test result lookup. Have a simple OpenBenchmarking integration corner so you can easly requist information about how different HW stacks up against each other and how peorformance goes up per time.
What not to change:
Everything else. I like Phoronix
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honestly i don't think very much needs to change. i do think the forums need the same graphical appearance as the home page, but thats about it.
i would also prefer more articles that compare competing products within the same performance or price range, and more articles comparing windows products (such as windows itself or ntfs). so for example, compare an nvidia gtx 460 with an amd hd5750. i don't expect such tests to be done often because i understand this takes twice as long to write an article, but it helps give us more depth of comparison.


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I was driving to school yesterday listening to what BBC coined their "Royal Wedding Disco" when the DJ pulled out Journey's classic "Don't Stop Believing."
I almost ran my little Beetle right off the road.
How apropos. You see, I myself stopped believing in fairy tales when I was fourteen. My mom had recently married a man who would wake me each morn by yelling, "Wake up and piss, the world's on fire," through the railing of my bedroom loft. I would roll over and wonder what my mother saw in this vile man whom, with bitter irony, would get so plastered drinking Milwaukee's Best that he'd forget where the bathroom was and piss next to the coal burning stove. That pretty much put the royal kibosh on any romantic idyllicism that I had up to that point.
Don't get me wrong. I spent a good deal of time in my life wanting to be Snow White, Cinderella, "Baby" of Dirty Dancing fame, and Julia Roberts in pretty much Every. Movie. She's. Ever. Made (well, except Sleeping with the Enemy.) I've certainly envisioned my knight, a.k.a Johnny Depp, swooping me up to take me to Outback Steakhouse for a Bloomin' Onion many, many times. But I think the older I get, the more I realize that I need to return from La-La Land posthaste. It's just not reality. And while I still enjoy me some Chick Flick action, I just feel, like so many women before me, that fairy tales in literature, television, and movies set up our little girls for epic failure in the relationship department. I just can't watch any more.
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That, my friends, is love. It may not look romantic on the surface but lying on the floor next to your partner, after you've both just shit your guts out, speaks oodles to what real relationships are all about. That's why I haven't watched a stitch of the royal wedding coverage. Personally I'm not over Princess Di, the royal divorce, and her heartbreaking death. Instead, I'll just push play on The Freak Show, my second favorite episode of Sex and the City, wherein Carrie dates a bunch of freaks, including "the man who appears to have a lending library in his pants." I've known someone similar – so much for fairy tales.


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Dear Babi
as you can see I am sending (copying this to everyone who I have Worked with). Right now I have no words to say to you how you acted on the phone to me yesterday. When I called you it seemed as if you were one of those top executives sitting at your desk not caring about me, my issues or anything like that. I told you I had something planned tomorrow (FRIDAY 2/15) and you would say it would Go against me and my performance. REALLY???? Today after having problems I was informed at 3:00PM that you sent a mass email in all the "GROUPS" saying we are all no longer needed and we were done at 1:00PM today; Is that why I worked till 3:00PM ????
You also said out schedules from this day forward are NOT VALID ANYMORE: (* I FOUND THIS OUT AT 3:00PM FROM A MANAGER WITH YOUR COMPANY WHO HAD RESPECT TO TELL ME) Oh does this mean you guys have to pay us because we were scheduled to work tomorrow?? What do you think we should just drop everything for your company? and then get a nice letter saying were terminated? I believe this is totally bullcrap. Many of us were lied too when we were hired, According to you yesterday this wasn't the cast that all of us were told we would be seasonal only as needed: We were promised Two weeks of work at least (WITH THE CHANCES OF BECOMING FULL TIME) but I guess that turned out to be a complete and total Lie. You said that wasn't correct?? Is that the case then why not tell everyone who I have spoken with. BABI, I BELIEVE YOUR A Complete LIAR! I know this is probably going to get me terminated but honestly right now if I am so let it be; I can find a better company to work for without any problems. Everyday I made sure my stats were impressive and made sure I provided world class service. Some of my customers I went beyond with; I helped someone ship to another country where you guys didn't. She sent me a nice email as you can see below:
Subject: Re: Flowers to Kosovo (Serbia)
thank you solo much for being so thoughtful and determined to help me!!! I
really appreciate all of your help, and I know you will be paid forward!!
God bless you
Tiffany """
FYI: I am still chatting with her and willing to help her get flowers by another company with a better understanding how to treat
I have some other feedback from people saying I went beyond what anyone else has done for them. Why did I do this because I CARE ABOUT CUSTOMERS? Today I got so many calls with people saying there order wasn't delivered (From yesterday), the flowers arrived dead etc. They all wanted customer service; I personally dialed the number to get someone but it says calls can't be completed: OH THEN YOU TURN AROUND AND GET RID OF US ALL... All your company cares about is sending us MASS Emil's saying to "SELL SELL THE MOST EXPENSIVE THING" and then turn around and treat us like CRAP. I sent in a correction with my hours; if I am not paid correctly I am going to the Department of Hour/Wages for Fraud on your part. I know the hours I worked but Never got a responds back - gees wonder why maybe you're behind all of the mess ups. I am so glad I have work lined up tomorrow; I am so glad I had this lined up when I got My scheduled with 1-800-Flowers because I knew this job couldn't last especially how YOU TREATED US!!!!!! I CANNOT SAY ANY OTHER PERSON TREATED AS SLAVES LIKE YOU
DID. Your the one that needs an Attitude adjustment, maybe you need to get your head out of your rear and stop smoking Crack!
OH YEAH VALARIE (WHO WAS IN MY CLASS BROUGHT IT TO THE ATTENTION OF MANY OF YOU) that here Email address was NOT CORRECTED. YOU NEVER HAD THE RESPECT TO CHANGE IT. I TOLD YOU THIS ONE WASN'T GOING TO BE ACTIVE I GOT IT CHANGED BUT STILL RECVING STUFF FROM IT - AGAIN MAYBE YOUR ON A LITTLE TOO MUCH CRACK AND DON'T CARE ABOUT US??
If you have any questions please let me know.
= Some of the emails I sent this too:
There chat rooms they use (AOL CHAT)
hangarden (Main Chat for help etc)
Hanteam1 (to) hanteam7
( I was told by someone I know they have been using these rooms also )
sssteam1 -(to)- Unknown
Would I work for them again?
Yeah because I liked customers. I didn't like the fact they treated us so poorly and many customers had some issues with 1800Flowers. I was one of them willing to do something about it.
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Over the past few weeks we have advised everyone to utilize the survival guide located on the intranet when offering products to your customers. We have now incorporated the survival guide as selling policy. The survival guide is not optional, it is MANDATORY for everyone. (Yes, this means you!)
At the start of your shift, you MUST pull up the survival guide. Where can it be found?
Go to the intranet, select SURVIVAL GUIDE from the purple menu on the left.
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Remember you are the specialist and our customers rely on YOU to offer appropriate products.
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BASICALLY THIS POST HAS BEEN PUT HERE TO TELL PEOPLE MY OPINION OF 1800 FLOWERS AND HOW THEY TREAT EMPLOYEES + CUSTOMERS. IF A CUSTOMERS ORDER DOESN'T ARRIVE THEY BELIEVE IN JUST "giving them a future coupon to use - not refunding the money or anything else,"
CARLE PLACE, NEW YORK -- Figuring there might be problems with deliveries on Mother's Day (5/8/11), I thought I'd try to get ahead of the rush. On May 5, 2011 I placed an order with 1800Flowers.com for two identical items one going to my mother and one to my daughter-in-law. Both of these individuals live in the same county, in the same state. The order confirmation I received at 10:05 AM indicated normal delivery hours were 9 AM to 7 PM - I figured great, that gives them roughly 9 hours - shouldn't be any problem getting them delivered.
I got a delivery confirmation for one of the orders later that night (5/5) but nothing regarding the second order. The next day (5/6) I used the 'Track Orders' option on the 1800Flowers.com website and saw there wasn't delivery information for order number two. I noticed a note on the webpage that indicated sometimes the independent florists do not notify them quickly so there could be a delay in the information shown. Fair Enough.
I called the 1800Flowers.com customer service number at 11 AM and spoke to Kayla in customer service. After being on hold for 10 minutes, Kayla came back online and told me they could not get in touch with the florist to either confirm delivery or let me know the order hadn't been delivered. I explained to Kayla how frustrating this was and now the only thing I could do was contact either my son or daughter-in-law to find out if delivery was made.
I contacted my son and he let me know there had been no delivery as of 1:30 PM on 5/6. I sent an email to customer service via their 'Contact Us' page and explained all the details and posted a 'not-so-nice' comment on their Facebook page. Someone named Tina Flowers with the company sent me a private message on Facebook asking for the details and said she would try to help me. After some back and forth she apologized and said delivery would happen Saturday (5/7) and they would give me a 50% credit for the delivery - not great but...okay. The flowers would get thereby Mother's Day at least. She could not tell me A) Why the flowers were not delivered on 5/5 or B) Why the flowers were not going to be delivered that day (5/6).
Later that evening I received an email from a Michael Hinds with 1800Flowers.com customer service who apologized (so that's 3 people telling me how sorry they are but no resolution....) and that the florist had been contacted and delivery WOULD happen on Saturday 5/7.
Guess what?!?! As of 8:45 PM on 5/7 - there's NO FLOWERS! I immediately called customer service and got another Michael who was, not surprisingly, the 4th person to apologize and put me on hold to check on the order.
When he came back online, he informed me again that he was sorry for the inconvenience and proceeded to tell me the delivery would be scheduled for TUESDAY, MAY 10TH! Almost 1 WEEK after the original SAME-DAY delivery order was placed on MAY 5TH!!
By this time I am furious and tell him this is unacceptable and to just cancel the order and refund the charge. He says he understands and can cancel the order and I "should" NOT WILL but "should" see a credit in 5-7 business days. Really? REALLY?? When the order was placed on 5/5, my card was hit on 5/5 for the order and NOW he's saying it "should" be refunded in over a week???
Moral of the story is, I will NEVER use this company again and I will make sure my family, friends and colleagues understand just what type of service 1800Flowers.com provides. I'll be spending my Mother's Day disputing the charge...joy! (sarcasm)
April 16, 2011
Mr. Jim McCann RE: Order Confirmation W00431005191361
One Old Country Road
Suite 500
Carle Place, NY 11514
Mr. McCann,
Picture this. Your 81 year old mother sits home alone on her birthday in anticipation of the flowers her children send her annually. She waits all day. And waits and waits Nothing comes. She feels her children have forgotten her birthday. Her heart is broken.
That is exactly what just happened (again!) this week.
Can't relate to an elderly mother? How angry would be feel if you personally ordered flowers for your wife on Valentine's Day and nothing showed until 2-3 days later? How would she feel? This is what happens when your company cannot deliver what it promises.
I know as a company reaching a billion dollars in revenues, you probably don't care about this situation, but rather revenues, profitability and shareholder satisfaction. But I do, so please read on.
In order to assure our mother would receive her flowers ON her birthday, I ordered them the morning of 4/14/2011, for a delivery on 4/15/2011, as you will see from my confirmation and the (useless and erroneous) "tracking" page your company sends out.
The tracking page states the order status as "Delivery on Truck", which was a blatant lie. I called this morning, 4/16/2011 at 9:00am and asked if the representative could contact the florist, as your policy prohibits your customer from actually speaking to them.
I was placed on hold for roughly ten minutes, and when the representative came back on, I was told the flowers would be delivered by noon today, a day AFTER her birthday and the order delivery date. AGAIN, THEY WERE NOT!
I emailed your customer service dept and explained this situation, and basically, the only response was that they could not give out the florist's info for me to personally contact. They NEVER EVEN ADDRESSED THE ISSUE OF NON-DELIVERY! Is that what your company considers "customer service"? (I've included this ridiculous correspondence as well.)
I called, yet again, at noon and spoke with another rep, who told me he is seeing the delivery date as 4/16/2011 again, erroneous by all counts, as the enclosed documentation states. The earlier representative must have changed the delivery date.
Either way, I asked the second customer "service" representative to call the florist again, to verify that they were at least in route. When the representative came back on, I was now told they could have them delivered by 3:00pm.
Let's sum this up
I ordered the flowers at about 11:00am (CST) on Thursday for a Friday Delivery.
By Friday afternoon at 3:19pm (CST), the status stated "Delivery on Truck"
Friday came and went NO DELIVERY
Saturday morning 9:00am (CST) I speak with a "customer service" representative who tells me the order, albeit already a day late, will be delivered by noon. My mother would not be home after 12:30, as I explained to the fist representative
I emailed customer service, and nothing about the order was even addressed just the protection of the florist's identity and the canned, scripted email I've attached.
I called at around 11:30am (CST) and was now told they would be thereby 3:00pm, which was now, too late.
Furious at how inept your system, process and communication (or lack of) is, I canceled the order.
Do you see how absolutely ridiculous the process is? Do you have enough heart, compassion and understanding to realize how missed dates of your product deliveries effect loved ones?
I have ordered from your company for many, many years, but this was the last straw. I don't care at all about the "refund" that was supposed to placate me. I care about the emotions of my elderly mother.
Again, I doubt you even care about this, but if you Google "1800Flowers suck", you will see countless opinion boards with stories of this happening daily! And each story affected someone's feelings. Are you even aware of how many "customers" feel this way?
Your business practice is an absolute shame, and I just had to share my experience and opinions with you.
Enjoy your wealth and success, Mr. McCann. But know that while you may get it right once and a while, you are doing it very wrong way too often, and it affects people's feelings and relationships, which I truly doubt is any concern for you or things would be much, much different.
Disappointed beyond belief,
(Name and Signature)
I had ordered flowers from the 1-800-FLOWERS website on July 13, 2011 for the funeral of my husband's grandmother.
Though I was limited in time, I was careful to look at all the arrangements to find the right one for her personality and to express my husband's love for her memory and deliberately did not choose anything under the "Sympathy" category. I chose their "Classic Elegance" arrangement because it did not look like a typical funeral basket, but more like someone gathered flowers from their garden AND the predominant color was pink, her favorite. Also, because the only viewing would only be 3 hours, I wanted the white basket it came in to be something my mother-in-law could take home later that day and have to keep.
When we arrived at the funeral home, I was stunned to see the arrangement that was delivered was a typical funeral basket. The flowers were all green--NO pink, or any other color, for that matter. And, they were in a plastic bucket, not the white basket shown in the picture. I understand that sometimes substitutions are necessary in flower types. That would have been fine. I am disappointed that the arrangement was nothing even similar to the "Classic Elegance" picture. Instead of taking the time to choose what my husband would have wanted for his grandmother, I could have simply said pick anything you feel like making and send it, because I feel that is what the florist did.
When I made my disappointment known on their Customer Service site I requested that a representative reach me at the phone number I provided, explaining that I usually have no access to a computer. No one ever called me, but when I finally did get on-line again I found an E-Mail telling me they would give me 5% off my next order. I did not get what I paid for. If they had called like I requested and offered me at least a 50% refund I would have been satisfied and given them another chance. But, five percent.
And, while it is a minor issue, I did not know there was a handling fee or shipping service charge until after the on-order was finalized. In the end, I really didn't save anything because the same "Classic Elegance" arrangement was available through a local florist's website at the same price I ended up paying after adding everything together. In fact, the insulting 5% on my next order wouldn't even cover those charges. There will never be another order from me or anyone else who was at the funeral. And, I have been telling everyone I can not to use them.
My husband buys me flowers on a regular basis and has used 1800FLOWERS. COM for several years. It had always been a great experience UNTIL 2-14-09. He'd ordered me roses and a box of chocolate. I had been out all day and when I got home there the flowers were leaning against the door where they had been for several hrs in the cold. They were wilting and turning brown AND there was NO chocolates. I called to get it taken care of and the guy was really nice and handled it immediately (full refund & $20 GC) But then I was wary of them.
So for Mothers Day a friend sent me an arrangement (I got it 5-7-09) Some flowers looked good others were turning brown. THEN my husband again sends me an arrangement (5-9-09) and b/c of the last time not getting everything I checked his confirmation email.....only to find that they sent a totally different arrangement that cost a lot less! I spent over 1 1/2 hrs on hold, got disconnected and had to wait again!, talked to 3 people who couldn't care less and who tried to say they'd call me back instead of dealing with the issue and then offered 5% back...which did NOT cover the price difference!
And to top it off most of the flowers were wilted and the ones that weren't were roses that were only the circumference of a little bigger than a quarter! PLUS what they listed on the sheet I signed when they dropped it off STILL wasn't what I received! They had substituted cheaper flowers and left out the really nice ones! Thanks 1800flowers.com for screwing up 2 holidays worth of gifts from my husband!
Oh and how they resolve this one...I can have a redelivery & give them the crap ones back but do I have confidence these will be better? Hell no! And after going through all of this they took a nice gesture from my husband and turn it into something I will look back on with anger. I will now and forever tell anyone and everyone I know to stay away from this company!
NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- I received a passcode for $20 off next order for 1-800 Flowers. I tried to use it four times on the website and the code was invalid. I called about the problem four times and put on hold four times. I spoke to two people who could not help me. After 1 hour, I finally spoke to a person who could place the order by phone. Very poor service will not use 1-800 Flowers in the future.
I have had my third horrible experience with this company and I honestly think it may be the worst I have ever dealt with. Today was the second time I have ordered flowers and the order was canceled when it was too late for me to place an order with a different company. The order was accepted and there was plenty of time to notify me if it could not be fulfilled. Instead, they waited until it was too late and completely ruined the experience. I ordered flowers the same day with Proflowers for a different recipient because the 1800 Flowers said they could not cover that area and she received them on time. It is inexcusable to accept an order, have a customer rely on your acceptance and then not communicate with the customer until it is too late to rectify the situation. The last time I used this company the flowers were the worst I have ever seen delivered. I will never use this company again and will certainly tell everyone I know how horrible the service has been.
I ordered flowers for a friend who had recently gotten into an automobile accident and was admitted into the hospital's trauma unit. The flowers appeared exactly as depicted, and I received prompt e-mail updates regarding the status of my order (order received/order being prepared/order delivered).
I was even a bit worried since she had been moved to a different location in the hospital not long after placing my order, and the flowers were scheduled for next-day delivery. Fortunately, they made it to her updated location without an issue (the florist had called the hospital to verify the information I submitted with the order, which is when they realized that her room number had been changed).
All in all, pretty good service on this end!
I ordered flowers for my girlfriend in Upstate NY for the Friday prior to Valentine's Day. The flowers didn't show up. I sent 1-800-Flowers a message via their website to complain. They encouraged me to call them to seek resolution. I did this, even though I am based outside the US and could therefore not take advantage of their free 1-800 number. The first time, the operator cut me off after about 15 minutes. Her key aim seemed to be to get money out of me, and I didn't think this reasonable under the circumstances.. so I guess she decided to hang up on me! The second time a new operator claimed her computer had frozen. The third operator transferred me to another department and I was then kept on hold for ten minutes. At which point I gave up. Awful experience. I emailed again to point out that I had no success with calling their customer service: no response so far received. No flowers. Nothing. Shocking.
I specifically chose a fruit basket listed under the "Same Day Delivery" from 1-800-Flowers.com, and ordered it before 7 A.M. However, not only did the intended recipient not receive the delivery as guaranteed -- and for which I paid nearly $90 -- I did not hear from the company's customer service department until three days after my complaint was launched.
On the fourth day the customer service department, via email, offered to resend the item and give me a 20% discount on my NEXT order. No thanks. Instead, I asked for an upgraded fruit basket with wine be sent, even though the birthday occasion is long past. I certainly don't appreciate receiving a 20% discount on a FUTURE order when it was THIS ONE that was so egregiously ruined.
The customer service department ignored my upgrade request and thus, I am posting this for your awareness. I don't ever intend to use 1-800-FLOWERS again and recommend you take this into consideration before doing so yourself.


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