Complaint Review: Urbanflorist - Vancouver British Columbia
- Urbanflorist www.urbanflorist.com Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
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Urbanflorist deceptive billing practices ripoff Vancouver British Columbia
*Consumer Suggestion: Get your money back
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As a followup with regards to them billing in US dollars (even though they are a Canadian company) - instead of submitting the charges in US$ and having your credit card convert at market rate +x points (normally x =~ 3), they just convert currently at 1.29.. and the market rate is 1.159.. so they are making 10% on each order. I called them on this yesterday and the speech challenged customer service rep said he'd take a message and get back to me. Yeah right, after reading here I doubt that will happen.
I'm following up with my bank, the Attorney General of British Columbia (http://www.gov.bc.ca/ag/ ), Vancouver Better Business Bureau (http://www.bbbvan.org/index.php ) and will be submitting an investigation request to the Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA / Canadian version of IRS for the American readers). Since they are charging in US dollars, they need to convert to CAD$ for taxation purposes. They can either do so at the current market rate, or at the CRA prescribed rate for the year (which is an average of the market rate). This year that will be close to 1.20 to 1.22. but they are getting cashflow at 1.29? I wonder if that extra 9% is being declared as income?? I guess Mr. Alif Somani will find out soon enough.
Darren
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
This report was posted on Ripoff Report on 12/12/2005 08:41 AM and is a permanent record located here: https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/urbanflorist/vancouver-british-columbia/urbanflorist-deceptive-billing-practices-ripoff-vancouver-british-columbia-167634. The posting time indicated is Arizona local time. Arizona does not observe daylight savings so the post time may be Mountain or Pacific depending on the time of year. Ripoff Report has an exclusive license to this report. It may not be copied without the written permission of Ripoff Report. READ: Foreign websites steal our content
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#1 Consumer Suggestion
Get your money back
AUTHOR: Pesh - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, December 20, 2005
I was in the same situation, I was overcharged and the flowers were never delivered!! The flowers were suppose to be sent to my g/f for her bday, but they happend to send it out to a hospital when the address I gave them was a home address!! I went straight to my bank with all my evidence and I got my money back with in 10 days!! I filed numerous complaints and might even think about ruining Alif Somanis life by filing complaints everyday and let my lawyer friends know about it!!! He is probably a terrorist funding moron!! His time will come for ripping thousands off!!


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