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"Purse's Everyday Honest Pricing"
Direct Cremation Price at another
Adrian funeral home - $1,720.00
You save
$840
with the Purse Funeral Home and get a Solid Bronze Urn & Nameplate.
Traditional Funeral & Cremation Price at
both other Adrian, MI funeral homes -
$5,800.00
You
save around
$3,000.00
with the Purse Funeral Home
20 Ga. Steel Casket & Delphi Vault
with Traditional Funeral Service and all cash advances at other area funeral
homes -
$8,900.00
You
save over
$4,000.00 with the Purse
Funeral Home
Funeral prices verified during February 2008
by price lists, and consumer's showing us actual competitor funeral
contracts.
"Everyday Honest Pricing"
Some funeral homes, especially those with
extraordinarily high prices, have what they call a "No Walk Policy." If
you go to their firm and arrange a funeral which costs $8,900, that's the
price you are going to pay. Most people do not compare prices in advance
of need because of the time constraints and emotional difficulties of the
situation when the time of need occurs, they usually don't shop around.
But suppose you knew that you could buy the same exact funeral for
thousands of dollars less from Purse Funeral Home. If you confronted them
with that fact and they had a "No Walk Policy," they might say something
like this:
Oh, we'll match anybody's prices. If you show us what it is, we will match
the price. And besides, you don't know if their quality and service is
going to be the same."
And they might match it. But you are the only one who is going to get that
price - the rest of the world is going to pay their everyday high prices.
A Fairer Way
We don't think that type of policy is honest or fair. Shouldn't there be
one price for everyone? A funeral is an expensive proposition, no matter
what; and for many people it is a severe financial burden. Is it fair for
someone else to get a big discount just because they knew they could get a
better price?
How does it make you feel about the professionalism of a firm that has a
policy like this? Are these the type of people to whom you want to entrust
your loved one?
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J. Gilbert Purse
Funeral Home |
