THOUSANDS OF PHONY FLORISTS ACROSS AUSTRALIA
THOUSANDS OF PHONY FLORISTS ACROSS AUSTRALIA
Idiots & Bully Boys Roses Only Group & FlowersCorp think they have been playing at clever marketing while misleading consumers and raking in $millions by unfair competition. However Rod Sims of ACCC says otherwise.
"The ACCC is investigating the florist industry and looking closely at the operations of online order gatherers, and reports that some large national suppliers are making misleading representations online that they are local florists or that their business has a local presence, when that is not the case."
FROM THE ACCC | ARCHIVE
Meg's Flowers a brand belonging to the Roses Only Group has taken a hit from the ACCC.
ACCC said... “We are taking this court action because we allege Meg’s Flowers misled consumers into thinking they were ordering flowers from a local florist when they were actually dealing with a national business and the orders were often fulfilled from a corporate warehouse outside of that suburb.”
The ACCC seeks Declarations, Pecuniary Penalties, Compliance Orders, Corrective Notices, and Costs.
A penalty of up to $50 million can apply.
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UPDATED 5 October 2021
PURPOSES OF ROSES ONLY REVIEW INCLUDE:
in the public interest, to highlight misleading behaviour of Roses Only, FlowersCorp & Associates towards consumers;
to highlight how this misleading & thus unlawful behaviour is unfairly detrimental to competing florists;
to gather evidence for presentation to the ACCC for potential remedial action;
to remedy the problem, without a competitor having to take civil legal proceedings;
to comply with section 359D of the Criminal Code (QLD), in the circumstance of a Roses Only police complaint.
Summaries of the problem can be found HERE and HERE and updated HERE, with further update HERE - ILLEGAL BEHAVIOUR SANCTIONED BY THE ACCC.
Searches back to March 2020 on the Wayback Machine fail to reveal this product ever being priced at $144.95.
Non genuine price reduction is in contravention of Australian Consumer Law.
SEE the Kogan Example
MEG'S FLOWERS
owned by
FLOWERSCORP,
with thousands of phony florist websites across Australia.
All the above prices are plus a delivery fee from $14.95 to $39.95
Wholesale cost of flowers:
• Roses (unspecified origin or length) $20.00
• Oriental Lilies (local) $18.00
Just some of the Phony Florists on the Sunshine Coast Queensland.
This trickery is rampant across Australia.
All the above prices are plus a delivery fee from $14.95 to $39.95
Estimated wholesale cost of flowers (with no stem numbers being provided) $30.00
All the above prices are plus a delivery fee from $14.95 to $39.95
Estimated wholesale cost of flowers (with no stem numbers being provided) $30.00
All the above prices are plus a delivery fee from $14.95 to $39.95
Estimated wholesale cost of flowers (with no stem numbers being provided) $30.00
All the above prices are plus a delivery fee from $14.95 to $39.95
Estimated wholesale cost of Lilies (with no stem numbers being provided) $25.00
Roses Only Not Always Rosy
Product Review reveals numerous complaints regarding Roses Only.
Sure there are plenty of positive reviews, but the Rohde Reviews demonstrate the propensity of Roses Only to review itself, and not even fix the behaviour when it's pointed out to them, thus demonstrating a culture of utter contempt for what is required by Australian Consumer Law.
The dead roses background image was sourced from:
"Terrible didn't survive 2 days arrived hours late and left in the sun".
Roses Only currently sell 12 Premium Roses for $144.95 plus delivery.
