Be advised that a few Funeral Homes have made substantial changes in their pricing structure.

Prices have typically been raised on service items in order to lower casket prices.  It appears the most popular items for the increases are the “non declinable” fee for the Funeral Director and Staff and the embalming cost.

Locally, in the Austin area, there have been increases of $1000 to the “non declinable” fee and increases of $700 to the embalming fee which every family must pay if there is going to be a public viewing.  This allows profit that would have been made on the sale of high priced caskets to be protected in service fees and the price of caskets to be much less startling. Although the price of the caskets have been lowered the combined price of the funeral with the casket certainly has not. This takes away from the substantial savings your family could have made by purchasing the casket from your local "Affordable Caskets Store " .

WHAT CAN YOUR FAMILY DO?

It's really quite simple

Your family should consider changing Funeral Homes

Compare the current cost of the Funeral Home your family used last time to other Funeral Homes in the area. We keep an annual price survey of the local Funeral Homes. Simply select a Funeral Home that has not inflated their cost of services in order to take away your saving on a beautiful casket. All Funeral Homes are required to give you a copy of their general price list. If you do not have the time to collect a price list from the Funeral Homes you would like to compare come by the store. Take a look at the annual price list comparisons for the local Funeral Homes. How does the Funeral Home your family used last time compare on today’s market?

HOW TO COMPARE

The easiest way to compare Funeral Home prices is to FORGET THE PACKAGES!

• Packages are impossible to compare from one Funeral Home to another.

• The packages rarely contain a group of identical items.

• The price list with the packages will also contain a list of the individual goods and services the Funeral Home has to offer.

• Use the individual price list like a menu.

• Select the basic services that would be the minimum necessary for a funeral service with out including a casket.

• This figure is what you want to compare.

• Compare as many Funeral Homes as you want. Bring your figures to me and add the affordable cost of our casket to the basic cost of the funeral.  That total will give your family their best value.

IT IS THIS SIMPLE

SELECT A FUNERAL HOME THAT OFFERS REASONABLE SERVICE PRICES

AND

SELECT THE CASKET FROM AFFORDABLE CASKETS

Do you think "Funeral Packages" were designed to lower your family's funeral cost?  Please Read

Thank you for your continuing support over the last ten years!
Bill Collier

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