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Funeral consumers who paid full retail for funerals and caskets should be due a healthy refund from funeral homes.

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!If you purchased a funeral or a casket from a corperate funeral home in the past couple of years you might be able to get a refund of part of your money, you were over-charged. according to FTC’s fair […]

Funeral home planning for caskets and services at Bluebonnet and other Ft. Worth funeral homes.

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

I never cease to be amazed at the depths some funeral homes sink to to sell their services. Last week, after a couple of families came into my store and told me some stories about what they were being told about what we sell I decided to find out for myself. My wife and one […]

TISSUE DONATION

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

The idea of tissue donation is a great thing. It can help so many folks that need help, but it seems greed is the bottom line for the industry. As soon as someone passes away in a hospital the family is contacted by a repesentave of a harvesting company. This happens so fast you might […]

VIEWING CASKETS ON THE WEB

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Hardly a day goes by that someone asks about viewing our caskets on our webpage. We don’t post caskets here for a couple of reasons. We are a warehouse store and caskets come and go pretty fast because of out low prices and daily in-store specials. Funeral homes will tell you they beat our prices […]

Watchdog Sleeps

Friday, August 25th, 2006

Spring 2006
The Federal Trade Commission Goes Easy on the Funeral Industry
The article below is a PDF
http://www.funerals.org/alert/watchdogsleeps.pdf
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