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ONLINE FLORIST TAKES COMPLAINTS SERIOUSLY July 21, 2008

OTTAWA, June, 2008 – Bloomex, the fastest growing online florist in Canada, has come together with Ellen Roseman of the Toronto Star. This encounter came about after several customer complaints were published on Ellen Roseman’s blog site, which had imprecision of Bloomex policies and procedures.

Mrs. Roseman, who describes herself as an advocator for consumer issues, positions herself on the side of the consumer to battle alongside annoyed, testy and disgruntled consumers in their dealings with big companies. Her blog site is just that, a place for discontented consumers to voice their experiences, and deter others from dealing with certain corporations.

The owner and President of Bloomex, Dimitri Lokhonia, met personally with Ellen Roseman to give clarification, and resolve some of the misapprehension of Bloomex policies. Mr. Lokhonia admits that there have been mistakes in the past, and in an effort to correct these issues, we implemented a new system that will allow customers to get answers to their questions almost immediately. “We could not possibly predict the enormous growth of Bloomex, especially in the past year”, says Dimitri Lokhonia. “We realized we needed a more interactive, customer centric system that is easily available, and understandable to our customers, which is why we created these two new systems”

Bloomex, a national Canadian online floral company, offering various floral and gift arrangements throughout Canada and the U.S. via its online computerized system. Since it’s inauguration in January 2006, Bloomex has grown to an exponential growth rate of 200%. The magnitude of its success was unpredictable, and in the light of this development, Bloomex Management implemented new systems to properly deal with the quantity of orders being placed, designed and shipped.

With the initial installation stages now complete, Bloomex was pleased to announce the implementation a state-of-the-art customer service system in order to keep pace with the company’s dynamic growth. This new approach to customer service will dramatically reduce hold times, eliminate the need for customers to repeat information after arriving at a live customer care representative and even allow customers to chat live with a service agent, resolving their issues faster and more conveniently. In addition to this ultra-modern customer service system that has received optimistic reviews, a new tracking system will work in conjunction and hold all our employees accountable. Bloomex anticipates this new tracking system will improve overall customer satisfaction.

”Our customers are always our #1 priority and we continuously strive to provide the very best products and services”, says Angela Malik, Customer Service Manager of Bloomex. “ We are confident that our two new systems will alleviate some of the issues that have faced us in the past.”

After the initial meeting with Ellen Roseman, Dimitri Lokhonia placed Michelle Robitaille, the Public Relations Manager at Bloomex and Ellen Roseman in contact to assess some of the past complaints, and give Bloomex an opportunity to correct situations where they made mistakes. Michelle Robitaille has reviewed each complaint seriously, extracting all order details from the Bloomex system to determine accountability and try to rectify them. This has initiated customer refunds, credits, discounts and re-sending of products where Bloomex has taken the initiative to regain customers that have had unsatisfactory dealing with Bloomex, as well as ensuring these concerns do not arise in the future.

“Our goal is to address the issues of past Bloomex clients, and offer them reasonable compensation where we made mistakes. Due to the nature of our business, and human error, we do make mistakes, but we always try to resolve these as quickly as possible to maintain customer satisfaction.” Says Michelle Robitaille. “We have made several changes to our website so that our policies and guarantees are easily visible in numerous locations across our website, eliminating unjust expectations. Bloomex’s business model continually permits them to provide the freshest flowers possible at the lowest price.”

 

13 Responses to “ONLINE FLORIST TAKES COMPLAINTS SERIOUSLY”

  1. Barry Says:

    It’s nice to see that companies do take complaints seriously, and try and make their customer’s happy. Seldom do you see companies caring about unhappy clients. Good job Bloomex for putting your best foot forward and trying!!

  2. Priyanka Says:

    Yes it is very encouraging, when a company acts in this way it definitely boosts consumers to give a constructive feedback about the errors rather than stop using the companies services when anything goes wrong.

    ~Priyanka
    http://www.mahindrauniverse.com

  3. Gord Says:

    I hope this starts your day off “on the right foot”

    Thanks to you the flowers were delivered last night!

    It is so easy to write a grumpy complaint letter
    but
    when it comes down to thank you letters we “humans” aren’t too good at it are we
    - well
    this effort is “special”

    - thank you Angela

    Gord

  4. Jose D Says:

    I would like to thank you very much for getting us the flowers that we really wanted. I also appreciate the fact that you were able to get us the flowers in time so that we were able to get everything organized for the special day, it was definately more work than we had all anticipated. After all said it done it turned out perfectly.

    Thanks again.

  5. That really makes me like that flower company more, that they would go to such lengths for customer satisfaction. If I lived in Canada, I would order from them posthaste.

  6. Ann Says:

    Thanks for the beautiful flowers. Still blooming!

  7. Lee Ann Says:

    Thank you so much for your prompt response to my e-mail.

    Vera has now received the new arrangement and we are extremely happy.

    I appreciate the high quality customer suervice that Bloomex has
    provided.

    Lee Ann

  8. Alex Says:

    I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you down the road!

  9. AlexM Says:

    Your blog is interesting!

    Keep up the good work!

  10. Angel Oh Says:

    I am very impressed with what you have done to redeem Bloomex’s reputation.
    I have indeed received the bouquet of 1 dozen long stemmed roses today (August 18, 2008).
    And I will make sure to mention Bloomex to friends and relatives who have plans to order flowers and gift packs.
    Again, thank you for taking this matter seriously. You have made my day!
    Sincerely,
    Angel

  11. Dana Warren Says:

    I received a new floral arrangement today and wanted to thank Rolly P for his help. The flowers are fresh and very beautiful. Have a good day!
    Sincerely,
    Dana Warren

  12. bloomex Says:

    Posted by Bloomex on behalf of the client Ursula Hummel:

    I don’t mind at all, you have my permission (to post this comment below).

    Christel called me right after speaking with you. She is very happy and grateful that this has been resolved.

    And I must say that I certainly appreciate your follow through on this. Your help and attention to our problem demonstrates that customer service is alive and well at Bloomex. Up until the time that we spoke, I had serious reservations about ever dealing with your company again. As a small business owner myself, I keenly know the value of good response to clients.

    I will continue to use your service when I need flowers and that is completely due to your intervention in a satisfactory resolution.

    If you have a manager that I can contact to send compliments on your professionalism and diligence, just let me know who to contact and I will do so.

    Thank you very much again,

    Ursula Hummel, CPDT

  13. Flor Says:

    It’s great to see these types of flower companies in general taking some responsibility and showing that they do care, and the relationship doesn’t end after the order is placed or the flowers are received. It makes it easier to trust in the quality of what you’re ordering so you don’t have to be so worried about what is going to be delivered!


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