Online Flowers
Yeah so, I should be studying, but hey this is WAAAY more important.
Like, how much does it cost a person to make a bouquet of flowers? I mean, flowers are not all that expensive. I can get seven stalks of Strelitzia reginae (Birds of Paradise flower), one Heliconia stricta (Crab-Claw Heliconia), with three Doryanthes excelsa (Gymea lily) leaves and a bunch-full of Xanthorrhoea australis (grass tree) leaves for under $30, and make a stunning bouquet of flowers.
Online, there's a florist that's selling the exact combination for $175.
And you'd think that cost includes delivery. No, no, no way. Add $12 for delivery.
Want a balloon with that? Try another $15.
A soft toy in the form of a cheap Teddy bear made in the sweatshops of China? Add $40.
'Up-size' the bouquet? Add $100.
It's daylight robbery if you ask me.
They even sell flowers in glass jars. One dozen Tulipa 'Meissner Porzellan' hybrids for $125 (street price $25, glass jar maybe $5?) But the greatest rip-off has got to be the Rose-In-The-Box, ‘for the perfect girl of your dreams’, at $40 for ONE blardy rose in a cardboard box. I mean come on, I can get three dozen roses for that price! What box you want? Box from David Jones? Also can, just $5.99 extra. What, wrapping paper you say? Borders wrapping paper for $2.99. These people are NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s like, who the hell would buy flowers from these guys? I mean okay you're paying for convenience so you don't have to get your fat legs down to the market and buy the flowers for yourself so they charge a bit higher for that service but then again I think $99 for four Banksia integrifolia cones in a box is REALLY pushing it too far.
Apparently the flowers are 'carefully selected' by a 'master florist at a location near you' (WTF is a MASTER florist??? what, you mean he has a Masters in arranging flowers ah??). For all you know its some bored old housewife who's got nothing better to do in her flower shop than to get rid of her excess old stock that didn't sell over the weekend.
Better still, they use 'the finest most high quality hand made paper wrapped delicately around your bouquet', all for the ADDITIONAL price of $36. So that means if you didn't see this 'additional cost', that will mean you still get the flowers in a bouquet but wrapped in cheap plastic. OMG what a rip off.
A quick Google online and I could find similar paper for under $8 a piece.
Woh. Gold mine. I should open an online florist too.
I visited the Singaporean equivalent and they had close up pictures of some of the flower species that were offered on sale. At the bottom, a carefully positioned chat box was filled with comments, one which said:
"I think you should post more pictures on the gallery on flowers as pupils who wants to do projects like me, will find it difficult to find info."
Like, have you heard of Google you idiot.
SOOOOO Singaporean though.
The world is sometimes very twisted.
Like, how much does it cost a person to make a bouquet of flowers? I mean, flowers are not all that expensive. I can get seven stalks of Strelitzia reginae (Birds of Paradise flower), one Heliconia stricta (Crab-Claw Heliconia), with three Doryanthes excelsa (Gymea lily) leaves and a bunch-full of Xanthorrhoea australis (grass tree) leaves for under $30, and make a stunning bouquet of flowers.
Online, there's a florist that's selling the exact combination for $175.
And you'd think that cost includes delivery. No, no, no way. Add $12 for delivery.
Want a balloon with that? Try another $15.
A soft toy in the form of a cheap Teddy bear made in the sweatshops of China? Add $40.
'Up-size' the bouquet? Add $100.
It's daylight robbery if you ask me.
They even sell flowers in glass jars. One dozen Tulipa 'Meissner Porzellan' hybrids for $125 (street price $25, glass jar maybe $5?) But the greatest rip-off has got to be the Rose-In-The-Box, ‘for the perfect girl of your dreams’, at $40 for ONE blardy rose in a cardboard box. I mean come on, I can get three dozen roses for that price! What box you want? Box from David Jones? Also can, just $5.99 extra. What, wrapping paper you say? Borders wrapping paper for $2.99. These people are NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s like, who the hell would buy flowers from these guys? I mean okay you're paying for convenience so you don't have to get your fat legs down to the market and buy the flowers for yourself so they charge a bit higher for that service but then again I think $99 for four Banksia integrifolia cones in a box is REALLY pushing it too far.
Apparently the flowers are 'carefully selected' by a 'master florist at a location near you' (WTF is a MASTER florist??? what, you mean he has a Masters in arranging flowers ah??). For all you know its some bored old housewife who's got nothing better to do in her flower shop than to get rid of her excess old stock that didn't sell over the weekend.
Better still, they use 'the finest most high quality hand made paper wrapped delicately around your bouquet', all for the ADDITIONAL price of $36. So that means if you didn't see this 'additional cost', that will mean you still get the flowers in a bouquet but wrapped in cheap plastic. OMG what a rip off.
A quick Google online and I could find similar paper for under $8 a piece.
Woh. Gold mine. I should open an online florist too.
I visited the Singaporean equivalent and they had close up pictures of some of the flower species that were offered on sale. At the bottom, a carefully positioned chat box was filled with comments, one which said:
"I think you should post more pictures on the gallery on flowers as pupils who wants to do projects like me, will find it difficult to find info."
Like, have you heard of Google you idiot.
SOOOOO Singaporean though.
The world is sometimes very twisted.
Fell from the sky at 2:04 AM
3 Comments:
u need to take over my soon-to-be vacated room and start assembling flower arrangements for your own business. not much capital needed to start up. a website (u know who to ask) some google ads, online yellow pages ads, word of mouth and ur set. undercut the overpriced market, and you'll have a massive market waiting for you. men grumble about spending $100 on roses yet sneer at going to safeway to buy $15 flowers for their girlfriend. somewhere in the middle and ur set.
Wah! So soon you're gonna start an online bouquet delivery service?
lol
yes you should start an online business...lol
flowers can be very expensive...depends where u get them...but oh my god only ppl with money falling out everywhere would be able to afford it...if they wanted it :D
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