Imagine your 50th or 60th birthday morning. You already have enough aches and pains that you probably do not feel like celebrating. You turn on the coffee maker and head out to get the newspaper off the driveway. As soon as you open the front door you get the sense something is up but its early and you do not quite have your multiples together yet. As soon as your left foot steps off the proch it hits you, A sea of pink. Someone has placed 50 pink flamingos accross your front lawn. A neighbor honks as they drive by and you smile numbly and thats when you see the sign, “You’ve Been Flocked “ and now the whole world knows it.
If you are having a fundraiser or flocking someone for a celebratory reason you may have noticed that the plastic flamingo supply has dwindled severely especially the low cost pink flamingos. Well here is the reason, the supplier of the American Flamingos has pulled a boner. For unknown reasons, probably financial they have either pulled their birds or the actual manufacturer, the person molding the pink flamingos will not send anymore. It is a problem because these were the lowest cost quality pink flamingos on the market and many organizations have little money in order to purchase flocks and people that decide to flock someone as a gag has a budget also. There is a solution and that is reduction in flamingos per flock. Instead of 50 birds try 12 pairs or 24 birds. Instead of American purchase the Featherstone Replicas which by the way are far superior in every aspect except cost. The Don Featherstone Replicas are exact copies of the originals, they are taller and of course made in America. I would surmise that you would make more money with Featherstone Flamingos due to their looks anyways. Most of the clients that shop with us have elected to spend the same amount as before but now use the Featherstones in fewer numbers with the same financial results. Cheap flamingos be damned the Flamingo flocking must go on.
