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We
offer the same fresh flowers as other florists, but at much
lower prices. To understand how we save you money, you first need
to understand how the flower business works. Anytime you order flowers
for delivery outside of your local area, the florist uses a floral network
such as FTD or Teleflora to relay your order to another florist in the
location you want it delivered. This florist creates your flower arrangement,
delivers it, and then charges a reduced price to the florist who took
the order. The problem is that the florist taking your order does not
make enough profit from this, so they charge you an extra fee.
They call it a "delivery fee", "wire fee", "service fee", or "surcharge"
and most of the time don't even tell you about it until right before
you pay for the order.
At CheapFlowers.com, we send out your order the same way as other florists do (using electronic floral networks), but we don't charge you any extra fees. We spent
over $100,000 to automate our order processing system,
so our internal costs are much lower than most florists. This, and the fact that we handle a high volume of orders (over 100,000 flower deliveries since we started in 2003), allows us to keep our prices low.
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