Purchased potted bulbs (say that three times fast) are almost always forced. We can only guess that perhaps they were weak or even spent just before you received them. Or, and this is just a wild hunch, if the person who gave them to you transplanted blooming bulbs into the pot as a gift, they did not survive the uprooting and resetting, so flopped over, confused about what to do and weary from the experience.
Purchased potted bulbs (say that three times fast) are almost always forced. We can only guess that perhaps they were weak or even spent just before you received them. Or, and this is just a wild hunch, if the person who gave them to you transplanted blooming bulbs into the pot as a gift, they did not survive the uprooting and resetting, so flopped over, confused about what to do and weary from the experience.