BUY LOCAL FOR BETTER PRICE & QUALITY!

BUY LOCAL FOR BETTER PRICE!

Did you know that when you purchase flowers from an OUT-OF-STATE flower marketer, -- like Teleflora, FTD or 1-800-Flowers, Just Flowers, Wesley Berry and many others -- you are paying them BIG BUCKS to find a REAL florist (Like the Flower Hut) to fill your order?

That’s right. When you order from an Internet marketer, all they do is extract a HUGE COMMISSION and then PASS THE ORDER to a REAL Florist for design and delivery!

What does that mean to you?

Here's an example: The Teleflora Happy Face Bouquet is $39.95 on Teleflora's website. BUT they ADD a Handling Fee of around $14.99 (and MUCH MORE at Holidays!) Your total cost is $54.94!

Buy direct from the Flower Hut’s website, http://flowerhut.com and we knock 20% off OUR $39.99 price for a net $31.99. We don't add a Handling Fee but we add a delivery charge of $10.50 and local sales tax. You pay Flower Hut $45.57.

YOU SAVE $9.37...that's a 17% saving!

BUY LOCAL FOR BETTER QUALITY!

But there is MORE to the story than just saving money.

Remember the Happy Face above? After Teleflora takes your $54.94, they pick a Teleflora member florist in Charlotte  -- like Flower Hut -- KEEP the $14.99 handling charge, extract a 20% commission and send us the order for design and delivery. But it gets worse!

They ALSO extracts an additional (roughly) 10% in transmission fees. So the member florist ends up with just $27.97 to MAKE & DELIVER an item that YOU PAID $54.94 for!

SOMETHING HAS TO GIVE! And that “Something” is CUSTOMER SATISFACTION!

Did you know that ALL the major Wire Services -- Teleflora, FTD and 1-800-FLOWERS, are rated by Yahoo! Shopping at just over 1 STAR!

 

RUSH LIMBAUGH & 1-800-FLOWERS

Rush...

 

You wouldn’t use a Middleman to help you buy a pizza, or a wristwatch or window blinds, would you? So why are you urging your loyal listeners to BUY FLOWERS that way?

But that’s what you do when you personally endorse 1-800-FLOWERS.

With the exception of a scant handful of franchised or wholly-owned shops, 1-800-FLOWERS do not SUPPLY any flowers. Instead, in coordination with Bloomnet – their order relay network – they TAKE as much as 50% of the customer’s money in FEES & COMMISSIONS. Then they pass the now-heavily-discounted order to a REAL LOCAL FLORIST for design and delivery.

And local florists are POWERLESS to compete because 1-800-FLOWERS has no Cost Of Goods Sold, no inventory, no designers and no delivery people.  Almost their ONLY COST is for advertising!

Since 1988, when you championed the “bake sale,” you have been (verbally) a staunch supporter of SMALL independent businesses.

Please, Rush. Put your money where your mouth is and STOP recommending Middleman companies whose actions are destroying local businesses!