Can I vent about this?

jojobrn

My sibs and I wrote my grandma's obituary last night. Google docs is awesome btw. Not super long, no picture of her, I think we have 5 small paragraphs. Sent it to my mom who called and got it into the paper for printing tomorrow.

Cost for one day in the paper, 30 days online and an in memory thing in one year? $1200. Is it just me or is that highway robbery? And I thought the wedding industry gouged.

tawillers

Whaaaat?!?!!

**O-Face**

*shock*  That's ridiculous.

AuntFlo

:::::record screech::::

Something is not right.

TheMrsC23

Obits are expensive and I don't understand it at all. 

$1200 is farking ridonkulous.  Highway robbery indeed.

6fsn

What the heck?  That's crazy!

VarunaTT

Wow.  That's insane.  Really, like it costs anything but pennies for an online obit in the first place.  I know my mom does a yearly memoriam for my uncle, I wonder what it costs her.

kbsmom1

that sounds really high....we had a loooong obit for my Dad.....ran 3 days and online but did not have the year option...was 300-400 a couple of years ago..

zsazsa-stl

Yowzers. 

HisGirlFriday13

Speaking as a newspaper reporter, and former obituary writer, that seems astronomical. Most papers give you a certain inch count for free -- like the first five inches are free, and it's $X per inch after that. (A general rule of thumb is 30 words = 1 column inch). For $1,200, you'd have to have written hundreds of inches of copy -- think thousands of words. The "In Memory" thing should run you the cost of a regular B&W two-by advert, which is (at most papers) less than $50. And online? WTH -- you upload obits, time-delay them to post at a certain time, and you're done. Keeping it online is easier than keeping it offline, actually. That's BS.