Sending to Mainland China?

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We have a corporate customer that has placed four holiday orders to companies located in mainland China and two more in Taipai (Taiwan). I'm not really thrilled about sending these through a US wire service because I fear they'll be 'fee-d to death' by the time they get there. Anybody deal direct with a reliable Asian-based WS/sending florist?
 
Cathy....Happy Holidays!
Try calling Jim Moretz in Chicago, he has several school on the mainland and one in Taiwan. He may have someone you could call direct or fax, if not there Pete Samek AIFD might help there also, he is Jims associate.
Hope this helps,
Eddie
 
Google.....

worked for me more than once - no wire service fees either

here's one

http://www.chinaflower.com.cn/default.asp

There's several others and I know you know how to spot a phony...


I sent four dozen roses to Singapore last year - FTD wanted $450 - I called and got a florist there who did it for $75 (I gave him $100) and he emailed me a picture of the beautiful long stem beauties. Used paypal.
 
http://www.china-gift.com/flower/

You can't read Chinese? I can't either :) Then try

http://www.china-gift.com/English/

But their price in $ is 50% more expensive than the one in yuan. Strange. one US dollar = about 8 chinese RMB

(Disclaimer: I've never tried this site. But they look OK to me.)

A couple of things...

1) Quality of flowers in China is generally bad. Really bad. In Wuhan (a city where we run our restaurants), roses and Gerbers usually die in one or two days.

2) There are two kinds of chinese florist OGs, one located in the US (probably run by a guy in Chinatown) and the other in mainland China. You should use the latter, because they are a LOT cheaper. Having ".cn" domain doesn't mean the site is in China. The .cn domain is available to anyone in the world.
 
jamese said:
Cathy....Happy Holidays!
Try calling Jim Moretz in Chicago, he has several school on the mainland and one in Taiwan. He may have someone you could call direct or fax, if not there Pete Samek AIFD might help there also, he is Jims associate.
Hope this helps,
Eddie
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Good idea, but there is one problem. They don't have yellowpages in China. So there is no way to look for a florist's phone number unless they know it.
 
Thanks for the advice, y'all. After spending time searching for a non-spammy legit site (must include complete contact information, legit email [no hotmail.com or yahoo.com address] referral from other legit sites, etc....) I finally found a company I liked.

Entered an order and then found out they didn't take CC's despite saying so on one of their info pages. PayPal (which I haven't used in years) or direct bank transfer (no thanks) payment only.

I finally gave up and just sent them through TF.

Am surprised how many US OGs SEO for specific cities in Asia.

Taiwan was interesting, too. One florist had a handsome site with both a Chinese and English version - but their prices were higher than the same items found in the US.

Seems there's a real opportunity for a quality, trustworthy service to place orders in Asian countries, especially to places where English is rarely spoken.
 
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