So I saw an ad here on clutchfans and decided to send some to my wife for mother's day. She loves chocolate covered/iced/etc. strawberries and gets a kick out of things being sent to the office every now and then. Go to the website, pick the dozen mother's day special with 15% off. Still $30 but I'm like eh, she'll get a kick out of it. No big deal. Add the note card and pick delivery for Friday before 6pm. Total? $80. Are you kidding me? $80 for 12 strawberries to get delivered? Dang man! I can go buy some at Whole Foods and have a courier deliver it for way less! Pricing is something like: Shipping: $15 Friday Shipping: $5 Before 6pm Shipping: $15 Almost $50 bucks just in shipping. Good grief!
That is how all of those sites are unfortunately. I ordered my then GF flowers for Valentine's Day from Ava's Flowers (I didn't want to use teleflora). They never got delivered, they had listed my delivery date as the 15th but charged me over $50 in shipping because I selected the 14th. It took 28 phone calls and 2 hours on hold for me to get it straightened out and for me to get a refund. They kept hanging up on me and transferring me around. I have never had such a bad experience as a customer.
Yeah, I agree, anything like that is a ripoff, you just have to cut back any way you can. Last time I sent my wife flowers, I combined a Groupon with a cash back site. Right now there's a Groupon for Shari's Berries, $15 for $30 worth of stuff. Use Discover or UPromise to get 5% back @ Groupon (saved $.75) Buy the $30 Groupon for $15 Link (saved $15) Combine this with the 15% off code (saved 15% of remaining balance) Other than using a cash back credit card and sending during the week, I'm not sure what else to do. But yeah, those places are total ripoffs....or at least...the shipping is. It's the thought that counts!!
As a personal rule, anybody that spends that much money on advertising Is either making it up spreading costs in volume sales in the backend (McDonalds), or more likely a total rip off In order to pay for all those ads and still turn a profit. Wallpapering TV, radio, and other media with your ads isn't cheap.
I made the same mistake one time. Like you say, it would be way cheaper to find a place like HEB that dips their own strawberries, pay 20% of what Shari's Berries charges and then just pay a courier to deliver it to her work if you really want to go that route.
I hear those commercials all the time. They always say the low price and then add "plus shipping and handling" as if it's totally inconsequential. Any time I hear that last part, I'm skeptical...
People must find it hard to buy strawberries and chocolate. Then, melt chocolate and dip strawberries in chocolate. That melted chocolate runs all over. These ads have been everywhere for this Mother's Day. It starts to wear you down. But, not gonna do it!!! It's bad!!! Not at this juncture!!!
They even charge for the card. Not a full size card, just the little tag that they attach with your short message. It's $3 bucks extra. Dang Shari! Can't even spell your name right yet you're all up in my wallet!
I wonder what would happen if on Father's day, I opened a site/service company called "Larry's Berries" So big and juicy, waiting to explode in your mouth with full flavor! Order yours today! Not sure it'd go over too well. So yeah, I figured anything where they offer tv promo codes for discounts off is a scam/ripoff site. Usually those things are over priced to begin with especially when they just give out discount codes for free (smart marketing tbh).
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