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Don’t Fall For The Funeral Home “Package” Price

by Scott on July 11, 2009
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The funeral home typically will charge you the $2500 + Casket ($4500) to arrive at the average $7000 service. What they do is inflate the services to $5000 (add $2500) and if you buy the casket from the funeral home they give you a $2500 discount from $4500 to $2000 on the casket. The end result is the inflated $5000 + discounted casket of $2000 leaves you with the same total price of $7000. So they fool you.

Also the online casket price does not look as cheap but actually you are still paying $4500 for the casket because they have inflated the services up $2500. If the funeral home is $2000 for the casket and we are $1000 on ours, you might not think that you are saving that much. Conclusion, go to other funeral homes, the service fee is normally $2500 and much better when you are negotiating, not $5000.

One customer said it all, when they asked the funeral home if they could a buy casket online and ship it to the funeral home. They said sure, but they paid $5000 for the services instead of $2500. Get the itemized list first showing the $2500 for all service fees, then cross off the $4500 casket and have us send you one. Then your total is closer to $3500 instead of $7000.

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