Would you buy a coffin online ?

escortg3

What_a_rip_off wrote: »

OK so what I've found is..

You can buy a cardboard box for £110 + £50 for delivery ( for a box!!!)

A wicker / willow / bamboo coffin for £430 all in.

From a funeral director £330 - £400 for a no frills veneer coffin (without their services).

IMHO it's crazy !

No Frills veneer coffin is £160.00 in my area from a funeral director. Also £400 for the wicker/willow/bamboo.

Where did you get your funeral director coffin prices from.

Are you researching to see whether there is a business opportunity here.

Most funeral directors use coffin companies and as they buy large amounts will probably get them cheaper than we ever could. I Know there are loads of different sizes to choose from aswell, because deceased needs to be snug so as to not slide around inside.

What_a_rip_off

escortg3 wrote: »

No Frills veneer coffin is £160.00 in my area from a funeral director. Also £400 for the wicker/willow/bamboo.

Where did you get your funeral director coffin prices from.

£430 for the wicker one was an average of a a few sites I've been to.
The £300 - £400 were from two local undertakers. They admitted it would be cheaper if we employed their services.

Was your price as part of a package or just the standalone unit ?

escortg3

What_a_rip_off wrote: »

£430 for the wicker one was an average of a a few sites I've been to.
The £300 - £400 were from two local undertakers. They admitted it would be cheaper if we employed their services.

Was your price as part of a package or just the standalone unit ?

Price is for a standard unit. There is no price change wether using there services or not. My aunt bought one from our local funeral director to send her husband miles away to another funeral director. She only paid £160.00

What_a_rip_off

escortg3 wrote: »

Price is for a standard unit. There is no price change wether using there services or not. My aunt bought one from our local funeral director to send her husband miles away to another funeral director. She only paid £160.00

You are lucky then... my locals (in the sticks) charge an uplift for buying the coffin only.

think I shall phone a couple more now....

What_a_rip_off

What_a_rip_off wrote: »

You are lucky then... my locals (in the sticks) charge an uplift for buying the coffin only.

think I shall phone a couple more now....

Just called 2 more... cheapest so far £270 for a chipboard veneer.

What_a_rip_off

What_a_rip_off wrote: »

Just called 2 more... cheapest so far £270 for a chipboard veneer.

Sorry that should have read chipboard with a veneer... a chipboard veneer may look odd.

Primrose

I can't help thinking what a horrendous waste of resources it is to have a coffin that is burned, especially in these days when more cremations take place than burials.

It's obviously in the financial interest of undertakers to sell coffins to increase their prifts but why on earth can't a coffin simply be leased on a short lease, i.e. a 5 day hire? Then the corpse can be temporarily laid to rest in it for any pre-funeral rites, plus the actual funeral ceremony.

After that, if it's a cremation, the corpse could be removed from the coffin still encased in a simple body bag in which it had been resting, and put straight into the furnace. Then the coffin could be reused. When our forests are being chopped down,I hate the idea of wood simply being burned in a couple of hours when the original tree has probably taken 50 years or more to grow.

mumoftwo

How about furniture that turns into coffins, like this one:

http://inhabitat.com/coffin-shelves-furniture-for-life-and-death/

What_a_rip_off

mumoftwo wrote: »

How about furniture that turns into coffins, like this one:

That is so cool..... soon to be found in an ikea near you ;-)

Primrose

I've just had this crazy thought about turning up at a warehouse somewhere, buying your coffin and driving it back home on the motorway with it tied onto your roof rack.

I should think the driver behind you would start driving VERY CAREFULLY in case it fell off and there might be a body inside it. (especially if the driver was wearing dark glasses and the car had black tinted windows :rotfl:)