conchandler
Well-Known Member
You are all making excellent points. I have received email surveys for every section of the FSG for TF, as well as the wholesale price survey. If you use their FSG CD or dig into their db for it, you'll see that they are using 3.5x mark-up on fresh wholesale prices but only a 20% labor rate. I suspect this is all coming down to a new FSG in the coming year, since the current one is already 5-6 years old. Stay tuned.
Bill, you are right, there is no way the wire services should be discounting the delivery fees that shops need to charge. They know what are delivery fees are set at, and should abide by them, like the rest of us, when we send orders. I complained to them that they should have raised them when we were all paying $5.00 a gallon for gas, but NO.... On a note of fairness, bbrooks does allow the shops to keep their whole delivery fee and only takes a commission on the arrangement, at least that's what they used to do.
I've never purchased from Stems and Bunches, but that could also be the reason they are asking about wholesale prices.
Bill, you are right, there is no way the wire services should be discounting the delivery fees that shops need to charge. They know what are delivery fees are set at, and should abide by them, like the rest of us, when we send orders. I complained to them that they should have raised them when we were all paying $5.00 a gallon for gas, but NO.... On a note of fairness, bbrooks does allow the shops to keep their whole delivery fee and only takes a commission on the arrangement, at least that's what they used to do.
I've never purchased from Stems and Bunches, but that could also be the reason they are asking about wholesale prices.