We are NOT a wire service! A floral wire service is a company that acts as an intermediary between customers and florists. Customers can place orders with the wire service. The wire service takes a commission (a BIG one! 20%-30%) on the sale. Then they try to find a florist who will do the order for 20%-30% of it's value. This can result in the customer getting fewer flowers in their arrangement and can make it difficult for florists to stay in business. Many florists end up having to cut corners to make ends meet, such as using lower-quality flowers or reducing staff hours. Another significant issue with floral wire services is that they often do not give florists control over the quality of the flowers they are delivering.
There are also floral order gathers or OG. A floral order gather is an e-Commerce business that advertises floral products it does not actually produce but instead calls the floral order out to a local florist. An OG often provides misleading advertisements or information syaing they have designers. They also add extra cost and a hefty commission. For example, if you place an order on an OG website and pay $75 for a flower arrangement, $15 for delivery and another $10 for their "service fees" plus tax, the OG will try to send that order to a "REAL" florist to design and deliver it for them. However, they only send the "REAL" Florist $45 (or less) to do so. This means your recipient will most likely NOT receive what you have ordered for them because the "REAL" Florist can't create a $75 valued arrangement plus deliver it for $45. Here is a list of OG's
Ava’s, Blossom Flower Delivery, Florists.com, From You Flowers, FTD, Just Flowers, Pro Flowers, Teleflora, The Sympathy Store, 1-800-Flowers + many, many more!
