A solicitation from DHGate.com, a Chinese wholesale marketplace from which I've made a couple of purchases. It sounded like an actual human being, as my name was used in a non-robotic form, and was advertising their summer sales.
To save yourself some problems. just google for flower shops in or near the town you are trying to send flowers and talk directly to someone in the shop.Or just order through Flowershop Network.They are smaller and more personal.
10 calls one each day for the past 10 days. if you answer no one on the other end of the line. If you call the number back the recording says this number is no longer in service? When I called my provided (AT&T) for assistance with this. The told me there is nothing they can do. If you goggle the number it comes up as CRG west.com, Paramont Group, One Wilshire Place,& carrier Hotels .com. All from Los Angeles, All fictious and non existant based on returning calls
Received two calls on my cell phone with no message, and one on the house phone that my husband answered...he said it was a chinese lady on the other end he couldn't understand very well saying she had flowers to be delivered to me & would bring them at 3:00PM today...Saturday, November 24, 2007. It isn't 3:00PM yet, but I'm thinking something weird is up with the phone call. Called the number back, says is disconnected...I did get flowers from a local florist from a friend in Florida and they called the house & my cell prior to delivering them (we've gotten flowers from them before)...I live in Central Illinois.
This is apparently a customer service phonebank working for Teleflora. I received a call to clarify my order from an *extremely* inexperienced CSR. She left a message in which she didn't identify the company, couldn't describe the problem and ended by hollering to one of her co-workers for assistance -- this behavior prompted me to Google the phone number. Luckily she called back and I was able to coax out the probem: they didn't have the flowers I wanted, and were calling to get my approval for a substitution. I politely cancelled my order -- problem solved.
One more comment: I think it's just a very unprofessional phone bank, which Teleflora either runs or is more likely outsourcing. Doesn't seem like actual funny business, just rank beginners and poor english-speakers.