Chocolate covered strawberries are a premium gift when done
correctly. The perfect blend of gourmet chocolate and large fresh strawberries,
carefully packed and delivered with planned overnight service.
Doing them right is not cheap. Searching for
cheap ones is a
trap because the most heavily advertised companies doing the following :
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Fake chocolate,
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2 day shipping,
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Surcharges after you enter your credit card
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Easy Saver and Clarus Marketing (free shipping) scams,
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Tiny machine dipped leafless strawberries (not what the
pictures on the website show)
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One major competitor even got caught giving money to an organization
linked to Hamas terrorists.
You can do them right or you can do them cheap.Looking at the internet for strawberries is not going to
give you the full story, here is what to look for:
How to spot the fakes:-
The term “Swizzle” is used a lot by companies that are using
fake chocolate, “swizzle is also Britsh slang for “fake”.
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If they charge “rush” fees for things to be delivered tomorrow
(or the next available Tuesday), they may normally be using planned two day
delivery.
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If the Saturday delivery fee is much higher than the $15-$17
that FedEx/UPS charge then they may be using a planned 2 day service. (for some
parts of the country we actually wave this fee since we don’t always have to
pay it).
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Look at the product page carefully. You might see phrases
like “dipped in dark” without the word “chocolate”, unless they are actually
saying “milk chocolate”, “dark chocolate” or “white chocolate” they are relying
on your not noticing. The use of the terms ”Milk Chocolate”, “White Chocolate”
and “Semi-sweet chocolate” (what everybody calls dark) are federally regulated,
you must be using the higher quality
ingredients to use those terms.
With overnight shipping by UPS/FedEx and only one day in
transit only Tuesday through Friday are available at the normal rate, with
Saturday being available at a higher rate. If the shipment is in the local one
day ground area and going to a residence, the Saturday fee can be waived if
does not need to be there in the morning.
Some people might ask why not use the post office? We did a
test with them once, they failed on 20 out of 20 shipments, with one overnight
package actually taking 5 days before it was delivered.
Because strawberries are so perishable, you would never want
to ship them with planned 2 day service, that shortcut leads to a much higher
failure rate.
How we do it:
Better strawberries,
Better chocolate,
Better shipping.
We do things right rather than cheap,
We use true gourmet chocolate (not swizzle)
We hand dip daily and ship the same day.
We always ship with planned overnight service
We let you order up to 6 months in advance
Gourmet chocolate, the freshest largest strawberries
available, no shortcuts on quality: You are not going to get any of those when you go cheap.