Reviews of Skip's Toms River Florist & Gifts (Florist)

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My family placed an order for my grandparent's 60th wedding anniversary and asked for two dozen roses with other assorted spring flowers mixed in. We emphasized that it needed to WOW. The sales person quoted us a number for what we asked and when the arrangement showed up it was lackluster at best. Only 21 roses made their way into the arrangement - rather unforgivable, though the owner assured me they counted and recounted, it still absolutely should not have happened - and of the amount we spent, most of what we asked for in additional flowers arrived in the form of filler flowers, not a nice compliment of spring flowers. My family has worked in the floral industry for generations, a quick look and it was easy to tell the value of the flowers weren't there. We emphasized how important this was, celebrating 60 years of marriage with a family with 'flowers in the blood', and the arrangement was heartbreakingly bad. Upon contacting Skip's it took two days to resolve our complaint and in the end we just asked for a refund. The entire situation was awfully dissapointing.

Yegor Vanovskiy

Great flowers and wonderful owners! My mom is amazed for how long these flowers stay alive and how beautiful they are!

Dianna DePinto

Wonderful experience. I traveled in from out of town and needed flowers for my mom’s Celebration of Life. Did a google search and found Skips. The arrangement of roses were beautiful.

Chris Masker

Great service

LaRonda Banks

Great place

patrica donlon

Never had flowers delivered to my son and daughter-in-law for their 25th anniversary, in another state, and never notified me.

Guillermo Rodríguez

Es una empresa muy confiable, rápida. Toma tu pedido como tu gustes. Les invito a formar parte de ella, y agradar a sus seres queridos con los hermosos detalles que venden aqui.

Ann

Nice flower arrangements but took too long to be waited on as there was only 1 person to take care of our order and as it was an older couple jumped ahead of us. But, the arrangement we were sending FTD did not arrive as ordered and was 1/2 the size. After calling, Skips took the other florist off the FTD calling list and rectified the situation by having us come in and gave us an arrangement in its place, the one we orginally ordered. Good business sense.

Marla Luciano

Worthless. DON'T BUY HERE!! I always use local florist b/c you can speak directly with the designer and let them know what you want. I called their local number at 930 AM today, May 9th, 2014. The call rolled over to a "call center" which I later found out was FTD. "Andrew" at the call center wrote in the notes to call the customer prior to designing. They never did. Flowers were horrific.

Maryann Jeome

We used Skip's in March 2013 for a wedding and have to say the arrangements were beautiful !! Their suggestions with lower and higher center pieces made the room more inviting. Stella couldn't have been more helpful with the type of flowers for the colors we wanted. She and her staff personally made sure everything was perfect. And best of all the flowers that everyone got to go home with lasted 2 weeks. Thank you Skip's>

Wanda Koch

"SKIP Skip's" when ordering flowers. The worst flower store (I would not call them a Florist) I have ever dealt with. My son sent me a birthday arrangement through FTD. As an ex-floral designer, I was heartbroken by what I received. An hour later the driver returned and handed me a balloon telling me it went with my previous delivery. I snapped a pic and sent it to my son with my thank you. The arraignment was to have yellow lilies, red roses, red carnations, irises, yellow chrysanthemums and greens in a vase with a teddy bear and a balloon. I received the teddy bear and balloon and a vase that contained 3 small sprays of purple chrysanthemums, a few red miniature carnations, 2 yellow gerber mums and baker fern. The value was less then 1/3 of what my son paid. My son contacted FTD and was told the flowers would be picked up and a new bouquet would be redelivered. I'm still waiting. FTD has informed my son that Skips refused to honor their request. This was not my first negative experience with Skips; just the first one I've chosen to write about. Skips clearly has no business ethics!!! The ethical party was FTD, who after seeing the photos, fully reimbursed my son. My advice ~ SKIP Skip's

Chuck R

The employees at Ship's Florist in Tom's River are among the best and most professional people I have ever dealt with. Highly recommended!!!

Aaron G

Great customer service and brilliant flower arrangements. Definitely A step above

Angela Caiafa

Reasonable florist. Made a beautiful arrangement. Friendly service.

Patrick Guaschino

Beautiful, fresh flowers with the absolute best service you can get. They are my go-to florist and I'm constantly impressed by the quality and high value of their results time and again. I wouldn't shop for flowers anywhere else.

Roger Pipher

They WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE from an owner. Visited Skip's on Saturday Dec. 23rd to order a few funeral pieces for my father. After placing order for a casket spray, rosary, and a small wreath with a very nice woman (Apologize didn't remember her name) I asked her is there any discounts available? She said very nicely to me I will have to ask the owner. The owner was sitting 20 feet away at a desk (talking about something other than business load enough for customers to here) I asked if she could. She walked over to the owner and asked the owner (Older man wearing a flannel shirt). He looked her in the face (Acted like we weren't at the counter and said "The costs of flowers are very high this year, IT IS WHAT IT IS!" The nice woman came back very apologetic. We paid the bill and left. Than we arrive at the funeral home to see what we paid for. Should have went to Shop Rite for the funeral pieces. Flowers were falling out of wreath during the viewing. Unbelievable! I get it is a business and the word profit is not a bad word, however knowing a few people in the industry over the years I know that weddings and funerals are the most lucrative for florists. I am not even mad about the price. I would have appreciated THE OWNER to stand up and walk over to the counter and say to me. Unfortunately, I don't have any movement in the price I do apologize. NOT IT IS WHAT IT IS....... I guess when you have been in business as long as them you don't need to treat customers like you need them to pay your rent. Especially new customers, That was my 1st and last experience with Skip's. Probably doesn't need my biz anyway, has to much!

Pat Gotti

We ordered mothers day flowers for my mom and when she saw them she snapped pic and sent to my kids thanking them. My daughter who had spent an hour on 1-800- Flowers picking out orange flowers with sunflowers in a special spherical vase(she collects vases) was very upset because pic was not even close to what we ordered and what she got was pink, pink and more pink. even tall vase we did not order was PINK! My daughter and myself and my mother all do not like the color pink which is why her arrangement had orange flowers because they are her fav and sunflowers which my daughter loves which made it extra special. I called florist on mothers day(Friday- per the 24 hour satisfaction guarantee on back of card) to find out what happened and the women on the phone was rude and said she would look into it and get bk to them and rushed me off the phone. Sat came and went and I called Sunday to again try to have an answer they was advised that this florist shop was busy, and that they "just make it work with what they have" and she again would look into this and handle firs thing Monday am - no call then Wed am I called and was told by rude man who may have been owner that they tried a redeliver yesterday(Tues) but she was not home. I advised him this was a delivery to a business, then he changed story and said that when they got there at 5 office was closed, also a lie because we work for same company and we were open until 6:30- then he rudely said my delivery guy is on it and will be there today and ended call. She did receive new flowers which were closer to the original order but still not even as beautiful as what we ordered, flowers were yellow instead of orange and no sunflowers at all and this time plain clear vase that everyone has, not a collectible item we chose. Overall there were no apologies and I do not feel that they care overall about their customers. Sad because I live in this town but will never go to them again and I had 1800- Flowers note my acct to not use them for future orders. If you order flowers and pay that kind of money you should get what you order and if they do not have those flowers they should advise customer so they know!

Jessica CY

Worked with Jerome on my wedding bouquets. He was very professional and customer service oriented. I wanted to add some rose gold glitter to my bouquet and they came out perfect!

maria cruz

I live in Florida and I was able to have a beautiful bouquet of flowers and balloons delivered last minute to my mother on her birthday. Employees were very helpful and patient with me even after realizing, I had the wrong house number!! Thanks so much!!

Elizabeth Nilsson

Always perfect arrangements! And in a pinch, a beautiful wrist corsage. Thank you again and again!

Darren LaMonica

Amazing flower and great to work with, they really saved us for our wedding!

Traci Walker

This place was a lifesaver, had a corsage made for my son's dance within 15 minutes. Thank you!! And it was beautiful.

Stefanie Larson

Always professional and so very personable! Never go anywhere else for flowers!

Richard Strada

Great flowers and excellent service with helpful individuals.