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Posted: 10/13/2006 6:55:14 PM | flowers for you | |
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Posted: 10/13/2006 9:00:39 PM | | hey what about australia. we are here you know. lots of people in australia use this service. just becoz we are down under????? | |
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Posted: 10/14/2006 12:20:11 AM | What about flowers for the ladies in England.
We want flowers right ladies?
come on someone invent something, so we can receive something nice. | |
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Posted: 10/14/2006 12:22:26 AM | | To make your day alittle Brighter and loverly too and i hope that you grow like them to be very pretty like the queen that you are and then to treated like ,because i'm a king still looking for my QUEEN and i know its you ,my HEART never lies to me . | |
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Posted: 10/14/2006 3:08:26 AM | i think this is a real nice idea....really a nice thought too....i hope i get the chance to try this site too.....sanangel ........ | |
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Posted: 10/14/2006 6:08:58 AM | I might send some flowers to myself. Bahahahaha.  | |
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Posted: 10/14/2006 6:43:16 AM | | does the person sending the flowers have a number to check to see when and if they arrived? If so, what if they ask to verify the address that is was sent to???????? | |
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Posted: 10/14/2006 7:29:14 AM | Flowers are so romantic...
I noticed it is not on all profiles at the bottom...?
Its seems there are few die hard romantic gentlemen out there...Why?
I can't wait...
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Posted: 10/14/2006 8:40:39 AM | | We can send flowers but not money! Wow what kind of dating site is this | |
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| Plentyoffish, Now with Flowers.
Posted: 10/14/2006 8:41:06 AM | I am responding to the below original post on this thread:
admin on 10/12/2006 2: 54:42 PM
Subject: Plentyoffish, Now with Flowers.
Message: Today I added the ability for users to send flowers to each other onto the site in the USA and Canada.
Here is how it works.
1. You can click the send flowers link on someones profile and it takes you to growerflowers were you can pick the flowers you want to send. Once there you fill out the order and give your personalized message.
2. Once the order has been submitted, Plentyoffish AKA me automatically sends an email to the reciever telling them a user has sent them flowers. The reciever follows the link they recieve and fill out their address information. Once the reciever submits their address info the flowers show up in a day or 2!.
3. At no point in time will the sender or reciever get access to each others personal information such as phone, address, name etc.
Hope you all like it, I thought this would be cooler then sending lame "virtual" gifts like other sites do. :)
Dear friends, users and admin of Plenty of Fish,
I first want to say thanks to the admin for creating this great website. It is remarkable. Especially the free nature of it.
I am just offering constructive commentary. The other day the admin started a thread called "Plentyoffish, Now with Flowers." and placed it in the most popular forum which is "Relationships." That ensures that the most people will be able to comment on it. The admin also mentioned: "I thought this would be cooler then sending lame "virtual" gifts like other sites do. :) "
Several hours later I started another thread called "Plentyoffish creditcard Flowers. Would free virtual flowers/winks help relationships blossom more?"
found here:
http://forums.plentyoffish.com/datingPosts5550484.aspx
I also placed it in the relationship forum because it directly deals with helping relationships and increasing connections on the POF website. I received many comments on it immediately and people who agree with me because it was in the most popular forum.
Then admin moved it to "off-topic" so that farrrrrrrrrr fewer people would see it and comment on it.
I just want to politeley request that admin move it back to relationship forum. How is my thread any more off-topic than the admin topic?
If my thread is really off-topic, wouldn't your thread be more suitable under:
"Technology/Computers"
"Plentyoffish Site/Suggestions/Help"
or also placed under
"off topic"?
Is there a bit of a double-standard being used because you think virtual flowers are lame and you don't want to give POF users the opportunity to request something which you think is lame?
I think this is a wonderful website, much better than all the other dating sites I've seen yet, but I just request that my thread is placed back in relationship forums. Thanks.
And even if you don't like the virtual winks, can't you give us the feature... and automatically have it in off-mode to start off with (default settings) so that people who think it is lame never have to use it and never have to recieve virtual winks or virtual flowers unless they specifically know how to go through 'the hassle' to turn it on?
That way no one would ever receive any virtual flowers or virtual winks unless they specifically went through a great deal of trouble to request receiving them.
I think POF is on the cutting edge of becoming very big and popular, but unfortunately what happens when sites become big (mega-corporate) is that they stop listeing to their users and soon a competing site is created which then creates the features which people had been politeley requesting all the while. I just hope POF keeps listening like it always has.
Thanks admin, thanks listeners,
Thanks for not transferring this comment to off-topic or deleting it,
We (those want want virtual winks and virtual flowers) just want the chance to contact people in different ways (in a way which will not bother anyone, especially since 'reciving winks' would be in off-mode to start with).
Love for all,
-onyxblue
p.s.
*sigh* Also, the one and only other thread which I had open (in the relationship forum), titled "name a song that you would recommend to others you're in a relationship with" has also been completely deleted (not even transferred to off-topic ) within the last 24 hours. It was open for over a week. All this for having a differing opinion from the admin? | |
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Posted: 10/14/2006 8:41:44 AM | what a brilliant and classy idea, i am loving this site, got to be the best out the rest are so cheesy and full of umm well u know, thanks for entertaining me!!  . | |
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Posted: 10/14/2006 9:09:09 AM | | Hmmmmmm..i was Number 1 in the top 500 2 weeks ago and didn't get any flowers...Is there a cost to it? | |
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Posted: 10/14/2006 9:22:38 AM | Not everyne wants to send flowers with a credit card. Some of us would like free virtual flowers or at least free virtual winks.
But instead of just making a request for you to make new features, which would probably end up meaning more questions from users, I would like to offer my help, if you create a free virtual winks or free virtual flowers feature..
The help section of your website states: "This site is run by 1.5 people." I would be happy to volunteer my time to answer all questions by users that may have questions/complaints about free virtual winks or free virtual flowers if you create it, if thats any help to you.
Your help sections also states: "No questions requarding site functionality, reasons for deletions etc will be answered. Read the FAQ or ask your question in the forums. "
In that case, you could even create a seperate forum or thread under suggestions/help or something and I'd be happy to answer those winks/virtual flowers questions in that thread. if you could create the free virtual winks or free virtual flowers it would be a great service.
And remember (especially for those who didn't read my last post) it would be in off-mode to start off with (default settings) so that people who don't want virtual flowers or virtual winks (or for people like the admin who feel that it is "lame") would never have to use it and never have to recieve virtual winks or virtual flowers unless they specifically know how to go through 'the hassle' to turn it on and start receiving them.
Thank for listening,
Love for all,
-onyx blue
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Posted: 10/14/2006 9:37:58 AM | | onyx blue, I think winks would be great. It would help the people who don't like it when their mail is not opened or replied to. At least if you get a wink back you know they are interested. | |
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Posted: 10/14/2006 10:05:20 AM | You know, I soooo wanted to like this idea. From a marketing and business sense, its genius, and helps support the costs of maintaining the site, and more. And it is a very thoughtful gesture; I know I've received flowers once or twice from a lady and was very appreciative. But when push comes to shove, although I'm not a cynic by nature, I just don't see this being very effective, other than for the flower shop owners.
Here's why I think it won't work though. Notice all the women on this thread already trolling for flowers? And as one post already mentioned, "...give it a week before you see a thread whining about I sent her flowers and she didn't respond." Lots of senders are going to spend lots of money sending flowers to sendees who have no interest in them, for any number of reasons. There will be the occasional success story, where a relationship blossoms from such a gesture, but for the most part it will be a waste of time and money for the sender. There are lots of wonderful, courteous people on this site who will have the decency to get a "flower" message, look at the potential sender's profile and not be interested, and then not accept the flowers. But there will also be lots of other folks that will say, "what the hell, I'll take 'em", regardless of their interest.
I'm a man who has always been something of a romantic, and quite often have sent flowers to the special woman in my life at that time for no other reason than to say I was thinking of her. Sending flowers is an intimate gesture, at least one that goes beyond a nameless internet connection. People on online dating sites are mindful of their security and necessarily cautious about their name, where they live and so on. My feeling is, if I don't know them well enough to have established the kind of trust and friendship that we already know that information about each other, then I don't know them well enough to send flowers.
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Posted: 10/14/2006 10:15:46 AM | I like the idea, and it might become handy in the future, but my thinking is, a lot of flower bouquets cost a fair amount of money---I would think, by the time a "couple" is ready for the flower exchange, they wouldn't be on POF anylonger? Your thoughts?
But it is a nice touch! | |
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Posted: 10/14/2006 10:37:40 AM | YOU CAN SEND ME ONE, BUT THIS IS FOR YOU     | |
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Posted: 10/14/2006 10:41:28 AM | | Virtual gifts etc are pointless. Its a gimmick paid sites use to try and get people to pay so they can message someone. If I allowed that stuff a lot of women would get spammed with useless messages. It would probably outnumber real mail 2 to 1 | |
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Posted: 10/14/2006 10:51:14 AM | | I agree, virtual gifts and winks are pointless and a waste of time. If I'm interested in a woman, I'll send them an email, or at least put them in my favorites list and then write when I have time to say something more thoughtful than just, "hi, you're cute." or some such nonsense. At that point I've introduced myself and she knows I'm interested and she can decide yes or no whether she is interested. Period. None of this winking and hoping she winks back BS. | |
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