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Florida Man's Lunacy, do not order
« on: March 13, 2025, 03:53:48 PM »
Heard good things about the Florida Man's Lunacy Roasted Garlic Hot Sauce. Hopped on their web page and ordered. Received an order confirmation, but nothing else. No product for two weeks, no response to the emails requesting an order update. Crickets.

Actually, that isn't exactly true. I did receive one thing... spam mail.

Beginning the day after I ordered, I became inundated with spam emails from places I've never seen, never heard of. Completely unrelated to any interests, places, orders, or web I've visited. Several dozen a day. I would normally consider an uptick in spam a random thing, but this was too coincidental.

I poked around and it seems unfulfilled orders from them are a regular thing as of late. Fortunately, my credit card company reversed the charge. Quickly, too. Like the moment I hit "Submit" a message popped into my inbox that the request was complete and the charge reversed. Makes me wonder if they're getting a lot of similar requests and have begun systematically honoring them rather than going through any type of discovery.

Anyway, don't order from their web site.

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Re: Florida Man's Lunacy, do not order
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2025, 12:52:55 PM »
Interesting surprise...

Two-plus weeks after disputing the charge and receiving a refund, and a full month after the original order, I've received a shipping notice.

They're in such disarray they aren't checking chargebacks against orders. They won't last long. Hope you weren't one of their Kickstarter investors because your money is likely wasted.

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Re: Florida Man's Lunacy, do not order
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2025, 02:23:34 PM »
And now they've sent an email asking how my shopping experience was.

Seriously?

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Re: Florida Man's Lunacy, do not order
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2025, 03:19:41 PM »
Did you get the product?

Or is it still in limbo?
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Re: Florida Man's Lunacy, do not order
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2025, 04:45:23 PM »
Sitting in my pantry.

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Re: Florida Man's Lunacy, do not order
« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2025, 04:53:43 PM »
How was your shopping experience?
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Re: Florida Man's Lunacy, do not order
« Reply #6 on: April 11, 2025, 11:06:10 PM »
So, you canceled the payment, but they still sent you the product.

I wonder if they're ever going to notice...
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Re: Florida Man's Lunacy, do not order
« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2025, 09:31:25 AM »
Doubtful.

They never replied to the order inquiries, either. Two - one via their "Contact Us" page, one via email using both listed email addresses.

They're definitely monitoring their FB page, though. Commented about my experience on one of their FB posts, including saying I'd contacted my CC company. Comment scrubbed in under fifteen minutes. I figure their social media is being handled by a marketing company, but you'd think there was some kind of feedback mechanism to keep FML in touch with consumer sentiment.

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"And he thought cops wouldn't chase... a STOLEN DONUT TRUCK???? That would be like Willie Nelson ignoring a pickup full of weed."
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