Echovita Recenzje 

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Family blindsided after marketing company, funeral home cash in on father's obituary

Plant arrived while casket being loaded into hearse for interment.

I contacted Echovita for them to take down a negative comment that was left on my sister’s obituary. This comment is false and damaging for not only my sister, but my family as well. I have been trying to reach out to someone so they could help me take this false comment down, however no one has gotten back to me. Please respond so that I can remove this review.

Flowers, arrangements arrived on time and they were most appreciated by those that received them. The order process was a bit clunky, had problems making three separate orders with three separate address and messages. Did not want to save the process, had to keep redoing the order.

My flower and candle order never went through. The order was never processed. The deceased was a very important and special person with whom I conducted business for over 20 years and my remembrance flowers and candle was not present on such a significant time. What a terrible disappointment.

It was very convenient. You already had all the information needed to deliver the gift on time and that saved me a lot of time.

Easy to order, lots of choices. Was able to order almost at the last minute. The only down side was being unable to see the size of the arrangement.

Great service

This company found a 3 time combat veterans obituary and wrote an obituary without contacting the family. We did not ask for it, they just did it. To remove it takes 3 days so meanwhile they are selling flowers, candles, etc.

Read about this company, they are not good, they hit at a time when families are greiving.

This company scans funeral home websites and advertises the sale of flowers to be given to grieving families. This is a scam. When money is spent, there are no flowers that will be arriving. They are preying on grieving families during their darkest hours.

Total scam. They highjacked my mother’s obituary.

J'ai commandé une corbeille de fleurs pour un salon funéraire le samedi midi et elle a été délivrée le dimanche à 11h tel que décrit sur leur site. Merci pour votre service rapide et impécable.

The flowers I ordered were $60+ for a funeral. I flowers sent to the funeral home where from Shaws. The Shaws sticker for $16.99 was still on them. I would have never known, but my husband was able to attend the funeral and knew what I ordered. As soon as he sent me the picture, I called and got a refund. I was also charged for a candle I never ordered. Needless to say, I was embarrassed with the whole ordeal.
Disappointed!!!

NO way to contact you via phone nor your e-mail. Have been trying for two days. E-mails come right back to me. Ordered a 30 day candle to light for my friend. Received a receipt immediately with a charge of 24.99 for an eternity candle. Did not order the eternity candle.

They NEVER delivered the flowers: it's scam and been reported as fraudulent site by La Presse's article (2024-04-17)

Full disclaimer following my review and reply from Echovita:

Reply from Echovita
When looking up your name in our system, I can confirm that you DID NOT order any flowers via our website. Second, Echovita is not a scam. Any flower orders placed on our website are processed by Blooms Today, and each order is assigned to a local florist. If, for any reason, an order is not delivered on time, it is refunded.

MD - 1st: I did the review for my sister hence, you won't find my name because it's her who made the order and was still sad about messing up
MD - 2nd: Echovita DID refund the money

You referred to an article written by La Presse, which was full of blatant lies. Please do not be naive and simply believe what you read without asking any questions of your own or doing any research yourself. Our lawyers are working on dealing with the false media.

MD - Righhhht, so I shouldn't believe the written press where they vet the articles by the chief editor before going online with it… If the press isn't trustable... Having said that, I DID check a few things before making my review:

MD - 1) The La Presse's article mentions the lawsuit for copyright infringement where the defendant Afterlife co/Everhere com owned by a Pascal (Paco) Leclerc was hit with $20M judgment
MD - 2) Other news networks and law firms reported the copyright infringement case where the name Pascal (Paco) Leclerc is mentioned and that this person file for bankruptcy afterwards hence, fending to have to pay the judgment: atlantic ctvnews ca/judge-awards-20-million-damages-against-website-that-pirated-obituaries-1.4405826; stewartmckelvey com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/T-38-18-Judgment-Reasons.pdf; financialpost com/pmn/business-pmn/lawsuit-launched-against-obituary-website-alleges-copyright-infringement; theglobeandmail com/canada/article-judge-orders-obituary-website-to-pay-20-million-in-damages-for/; cbc ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/afterlife-obituary-class-action-lawsuit-1.5119601; journaldemontreal com/2022/11/19/des-trous-beants-dans-les-lois-du-quebec
MD - 3) I looked at the company registration public records of Echovita: the name appearing is Paco Leclerc and where the Everhere company is listed as non active since 2020
MD - 4) On the Website Echovita, multiple obits are listed. Ours had a rehashed of the original obits; there a link that mentions that the arrangement is under the supervision of the funeral home; that link goes to… Echovita where an information of the funeral home is listed and inside that box's listing there's a button to send flower. Where does that link button leads to ? You guessed right: Echovita flowers services
MD - 5) I thought that it was only our listing that might suffer from an issue; wrong again I was, other listings on Echovita's obit has a button that mentions sending flowers that leads back to Echovita OR a "…under supervision of (NAME OF FUNERAL HOME)…" that leads to a funeral home listing with the same button we had.
MD - 6) I call directly at the funeral home and they weren't aware that their obit had ended up on Echovita's
MD - 7) How did we find out: a family member went to the funeral home and mentioned they were surprise not to see our flowers.
MD - 8) What is a scam according to Webster's definition ? : a fraudulent or deceptive act or operation.
MD - 9) I don't know about you people (other than the person replying to my review) but when you take obits from other Websites (which has been deemed illegal in prior the court decision), put links and name of funeral homes which don't even know they are mentioned, having these names leads to Echovita's funeral home listing and then Echovita's flower site is deceptive; if it hadn't been reported by our family, we would never have known

I repeat again just to be in full disclaimer: THEY DID REFUND THE MONEY

This review is also false.

MD - Nope, it has actually happened to us as described in the La Press's articles and other warnings I read after the issue we ran into: Echovita copied the original obits from the funeral home, came up 1st in the google search done by my sister when looking the name of the deceased; linked to the funeral home's address with a "send flowers" button sending us to Echovita's Website to send flowers, not the funeral home. I stand by my review.

Very Easy and staff were attentive, professional and courteous.

The arrangement I ordered looked nothing like the one that was recieved ! Very disappointed and false advertising

I was able to send flowers in lieu of attending a family member’s funeral. I refused to attend due to tensions that arose between extended family members and didn’t want a fight to break out as well as prior commitments. So with this order I was able to be supportive to those who needed comforting without causing unneeded stress. I know the order made it on time as the funeral was live streamed. I even had a family member reach out and thank me for the beautiful arrangement.

Ordered 4 days in advance. They sent an email the morning of the service stating that they couldn’t complete the order. How disappointing and sad. Horrible and heartless company.