I’ve got a feeling Proflowers is really going to take a hit come Easter time and mothers day. They’re about the only Rush advertiser that listeners like me could possibly utilize on a convenient and regular basis.
These advertisers are really dumb. It takes years to get name recognition and loyalty. Flower shops are a dime a dozen. Did they ever consider a lot of listeners were buying as a way to show their support for pro-Rush companies?
Yes. good point.
To hit Carbonite you have to go through a process, which I did, but to hit Proflowers all you have to do is NOT buy, which I won’t.
Read on Wikipedia that Proflowers was sued three times for false advertising -— that their flowers were ‘fresh from the fields’ -— and all three times they lost, but then turned around and kept on with the same false ads.
the fines were minimal so I suppose it was just a cost of doing business-— and lying.
I bought from Proflowers once only because of Rush and subsequently got dozens of emails from them that I would just delete.
After the kerfluffle, I threw their latest email in the spam bucket and voila! - no more emails.