100 Dollars and the Right Essay Could Win a Flower Shop
The selling of a small business can be difficult and heartbreaking. Trying someone to find to buy your business at a price that you see as fair is a difficult and frustrating affair. A Flower Shop in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida is looking for the right person to buy their business, and are hoping 100 dollars and the correct and most heartfelt essay can provide the winner with a low cost way to get their dream business.
“We thought that having a real estate agent would be a boring way to sell the shop, and we wanted to have more fun with this, so my mother, who is a former high school English and history teacher, and I thought of this essay contest,” said Wendy DeSousa, who has owned the Dial-A-Flower shop with her mother, Linda Varnell, for 10 years.”The only problem is that yesterday, I caught her ‘grading’ the essays,” DeSousa said.”It needed some commas,” Darnell added.The owners estimate the business is worth about $100,000. They hope to get 1,000 “Why I want to own a flower shop” essays from folks willing to pay $100 each to enter the contest, the Jupiter Courier reported Monday.The business will be given away with all the stock, except for the delivery van.”We’re not really looking at how the essay is written,” DeSousa said. “We’re looking for someone’s essay that appeals to us, who
AP Wire | 03/20/2006 | Flower shop to be sold for essay, $100.
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Comment by Dennis on 7 February 2007:
Does anyone know if someone won the flower shop in west palm beach, fl?