I think it highlighted for me, a massive issue with how companies view a paying customer and how they view an influencer. Back when this company were at the peak of peak of Instagram popularity, I tried to order a bunch for a friend who was terminally unwell. If the website didn’t kick me off when I came to pay, I’d then find they’d sold out. When the next batch came in stock, I managed to order some but waited weeks for them. By which time, my friend had sadly passed away. She never got to see them. I put it down to a very small business being massively busy amidst the pandemic and, given the circumstances, late flowers were the last thing on my mind. Once I thought about them again, I saw on Instagram that many people either couldn’t get them or were waiting up to a month like I did.
To see Beth with her gifted bunch REALLY fucked me off. I bet she didn’t have to wait like everyone else, she didn’t have to pay for them, she didn’t have an actual purpose for them other than to promote them for a business who are now absolutely massive and have made a fortune during the pandemic when many have and are, struggling to stay open - shame on the business rather than Beth on that one as they really didn’t need the exposure being as everyone who’s anyone was talking about them and I’d seen on their Instagram how many packages they were sending in one shipment, they’d have made THOUSANDS on one drop alone. Fair play to them for that part but they sold out to influencers and that rattled me so I’ll never use them again.
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