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The problem with FD they get the discount from you and then add on their percentage which may or not match your price which then means the FD is slightly cheaper than you found this out as my aunt had died and family requested FD used us (he never did before) after funeral family asked what price FD was paying us and what we would charge customer for same item I told, FD was actually charging them £2 less than we charged customer therefore it was cheaper for customer to order through FD Thus losing more customers and no we didn't get his business due to the fact we gave 10% his usual florist gave him 20%

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Suppose it all depends on the Fd, we have a couple of guys that work for Co-op and they reccomend customer to us, customer calls in and we take order and monies, then we give the Fd Cash in hand for the reccomendation..... but thats between us and the fd himself , as far as i know the FD's in this area Do not add to our prices, they have a price list and show this to their customer,, most of the time the FD sends the customer to us and we invoice the FD.

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Looks like you have a system in place so many florists in our town it really is cut throat

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the other florists around me as far as i know offer 20% disc to fd, so i suppose ill have to match it or they will go elsewhere, thanks everyone for your info

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gerbera daisy

That's probably a terminal misdemeanour on their part if found out.

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a what???????????

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gerbera daisy

i cant get in with the feckers, someone got it sown up but i am like amanda, occasionally they will send them to us and then we just sort it out. Some fd dont take any money and i heard that a local one to us takes 20% and then wants them for cheap as well so sometimes you have to do your sums really well and make sure that if you are giving mega discounts they are giving mega orders or it just wont be worth your time.

I can't get in with our local one either Tulips despite the staff saying our flowers are much better. It is really difficult because when the folk are there arranging the funeral and the fd sticks a brochure under their nose they are probably not in the right frame of mind to think of going elsewhere. I took some tributes today and there were some others there (interestingly not from the normal florist) and they were crap, think some of the flowers were deader than the corpse

thats what has happened to me tulip,they have asked me to reprice all my tributes, i was getting 2 to 3 quite good orders a week but ive had nothing of them now for 3 weeks so you are right im gonna do the new price list with less discount and if they dont order then hey ho, thanks

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gerbera daisy

We can't get in with our local f/d because they do there own they've now got Lord knows how many branches across the county and their own florist business which supplies them all have recently seen their price list which includes a red rose coffintop (not full length a bit vague on size) for 120.00. It did make for intersesting reading though they charge 65.00 extra if you want to view the deceased if you want 1 dove released that's an extra 50.00 (not bad when you consider it's a homing bird)