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Garden seed catalog shenanigans

Gambles

Gambles

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I'm all in favor of hitting the local garden and nursery supply stores, but with all the seed catalogs hitting the mail box lately, I just had to comment on these. If you notice the addresses of a lot of these companies, you will see that quite a few of them are from the same company, they just have a different name on the catalog. It seems that each of them have a minimum of $9.95 on the shipping cost. So if you order from two different catalogs, you will get hit with $20 in shipping alone.
I did a mock order on some of the web sites and if two companies share the same address, you can get everything you want from two separate catalogs on one order. I won't guarantee that it will work if you try that with a mail order, however.
Just thought I'd pass that along....(waiting for warmer weather so I can be outside more)
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LOTS of mail order places have been doing that same thing for decades, but I never knew the seed catalogs were doing it!
 
Most of the guys here will know who J.C.Whitney is, they are on Archer Ave in Chicago, Washkosy Parts (I have no idea how to spell) is (or was) on the cross street in the same building.
 
Need to do the same thing on the other end, that is have more than one person (a group preferably) share an order for shipping cost, buy seed in bigger quantity for lower cost per unit and share them.
 
J. C. Whitney and Warshowsky have common ownership.

Whitney sold to anyone while Warshowsky sold only to commercial buyers at discount.

In times past, catalogues, aside from covers and prices were identical.

Dean
 
Remember Johnson Smith ads on the back page of comic books???



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Hum, I've got 11 different ones in front of me and each one has a different address. Usually have 4 or 5 more comming will have to ck them out.
 
Do the return envelopes for the orders also have the same address as the return address you
show in the picture? The seed companies may just all hire the same advertising mailer company
to distribute the advertising...order forms. Impact mailing is a company here in MPLS MN that
does that type of business. Essentially a ...junk... mailer. After all if a seed company is legitimate
they are hopefully good at producing good seed. And then maybe not so good at handling bulk
mail.
 
Received my first and only garden seed catalog 2 days ago. It was a Gurney catalog, and they haven't sent me one for a long time, maybe cause I try to buy locally, but did order from them before. I have a fairly big garden,( give most away) so I might look and order.

I wondered what other catalogs you all get.
 
Gurney and Henry Fields in Indiana, and many others, are affiliated with Gardens Alive!

Jung, Shumway and others in Wisconsin are also commonly owned.

Mail order seed, plant and bulb companies are reviewed at Daves' Garden Dot Com, in a section called "Garden Watchdog". They also list company affiliations.
 
Just the same thing with General Motors that had Chevy, Pontiac, Olds, Buick, Cadilac and GMC. Ford Motors that had Ford, Mercury and Lincoln. Chrysler Motors with Plymouth, Dodge, Desota, Chrysler.
 
"Do the return envelopes for the orders also have the same address as the return address you show in the picture?"

Yes, same address on the return envelopes as what I posted. I did a Google street view on one of the addresses and it shows a shack on the side of the road. I assume that's where the mail carrier drops a few hundred envelopes in the shack every day.
 
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