Flowers insolita Blog

This fictitious “Huntington Florist” listing in phone directiories has been placed by a company called “Flowers with Gifted Elegance (FGE)” in Randolph, N.J. Again, please remember that “Huntington Florist” listed in Yellowpage/Book is in New Jersey! They aren’t even a florist! We are not related to them at all.

Here’s some reports about this company…

(From NH Public Radio Report) “Most people assume that when they call a local number, they’re connecting to a telephone that’s within city limits… What most people don’t expect, though, is that their call to a business that has a local city’s name in its title and a corresponding local phone exchange may go to New Jersey.”

(From WSOCTV Special Report) “When looking through the Charlotte phone book for a florist, you’ll find nine pages of choices. Try to pick one that’s local and you might choose Charlotte Florist — which certainly sounds local. But nowhere in the city of Charlotte will you find an actual shop called Charlotte Florist, because there is no Charlotte Florist. The business is more than 600 miles away in New Jersey.”

(From Wichita Eagle Article) “Six years after the Legislature prohibited out-of-state companies from masquerading as Kansas hometown businesses, it’s pretty much business as usual for the New Jersey flower telemarketer whose actions prompted the law. Flowers With Gifted Elegance, of Randolph, N.J., still lists itself in phone books across Kansas under such names as Derby Florist, Florist of Haysville and Florist in Wellington.”