A good funeral company seeks to alleviate the suffering of the loved ones of the deceased and take all the care of organizing the funeral, so that everything goes according to tradition or the wishes of clients. However, alas, there are also people who are used to preying on someone else's misfortune and making customers pay exorbitant prices for services.
The main ways to deceive clients of ritual offices
Even if a person died after a long illness or from old age, and his death was expected, relatives and friends in most cases cannot do the funeral on their own, because their grief is too strong. It is even worse if the death of a loved one was sudden. In this case, it is very easy to force a person to accept the services of a funeral office and sign a contract, since he understands that he cannot and does not want to do everything himself.
Grief does not allow people to think calmly: even a reasonable person may agree to pay for the services of a "black" agency or sign a contract that is unfavorable for him, since his thoughts are confused and clouded with pain.
One of the most common options for cheating is offering many additional, completely unnecessary services, each of which must be paid for. When the agent begins to list all the work and explain the essence of each point, the relatives and friends of the deceased are unlikely to listen to him carefully. Dragging out the discussion, the employee of the ritual office tests the patience of his clients, and in the end they, with a wave of their hand, prefer to simply sign the papers, not understanding anything. People who are faced with the death of a loved one often simply do not have the strength and desire to object and explain what specifically does not suit them, especially if the agent is persistent.
The cost of ritual services is often overpriced by several times. For example, they resell places in a cemetery, doubling or even tripling their price and hoping that customers will not understand the issue. As a result, people have to pay a lot. As a rule, funeral offices rely on the fact that grief-stricken people will not demand a price reduction, make inquiries, or even more so try to get some of their money back.
How funeral companies make money on someone else's misfortune
One of the most unpleasant frauds is drawing up a contract in which the indicated total cost of services does not coincide with the actual one. Only "black" offices work this way, since the "laws" of the shadow market allow it, and agents are not afraid of checks and problems with documentation.
Of course, the client can sue the office if he discovers that the contract was drawn up incorrectly, but the likelihood that he will do this is very small.
Finally, agents can offer "low-quality" goods: for example, sell a cheap coffin under the guise of an expensive one, or bury it in existing graves, claiming that the place was free.
