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"2 stated unrealistic projection, say $9mil rev for 2010 - nope, not EI."
Basser didn't EI project a 3.1 million revenue for 2007?
I think it ended up being $250,000 for the whole year wasn't it?
Another dangling carrot from Eternal Image.
"Since I never reccommend buying to anyone it isn't annoying to me. I tell people that I am buying and let them make up their own mind. I do reccomend nibbling."
ISN'T NIBBLING THE SAME AS BUYING?
YOU ONCE TOLD EVERYONE THAT YOU DIDN'T EVEN RECOMMEND NIBBLING.
HOW THINGS CHANGE.....
Ouch....0010 or lower by the end of the week for sure.
If EI would put out a PR it would surly be .0004
.0015, will we see below .0010 today?
PATHETIC
They have, show me some proof of this. That's funny BTW. You need to look at the latest filings.
Thanks for the laugh Dancy. EI hasdisappointed the shareholders agin. Sales can't even pay their salaries or car allowances.
Nothing surprises me anymore with this Company. I believe the end is near.
It's also interesting how the stock went down last week and then the company tweet's this information about the LOC today.
Just amazing how things happen. Do you think someone knew something last week?
WOW...This company continues to amaze me. What's next?
For several months all we've heard was about this LOC and now this didn't come true. We also heard about new License that they were suppose to get, that also did'nt happen. We aso heard awhile back that they hired a Salesman named David that was suppose to increase sales, that to didn't happen.
WHAT'S THE NEXT LIE?
They've sure have you fooled. Eternal images good at tha with some. Stick around and you'll learn.
.0004 befor the month is up.
$126.00 in total trades so far today. WOW....Where is the interest?
Brendan,
I know you don't want to hear this, but this thing is dead. 5 years and this is what they have to show for it.
"As a result the Company had accumulated deficits of approximately $16,620,099 and $16,340,706 at June 30 2010 and December 31, 2009 respectively."
WHERE IS ALL THE MONEY?
LET ME GUESS.......
You don't have to wait: Both these companies diliever within 3 days or sooner.
Costco:
A casket ordered on Costco.com will be delivered within three business days (Monday through Friday, excluding holidays) from the date the order is placed (for exceptions see below) . If your order is placed by 12:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time (EST), that is considered as one business day. Standard orders will be delivered by 5:00 p.m. (your local time) on scheduled delivery date. For example, for an order placed on Monday at 12:00 p.m. EST, the casket will be delivered by Wednesday, however if the order is placed on Monday at 12:01 p.m. EST, the casket will deliver by Thursday.
http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11008303&whse=BC&Ne=4000000&eCat=BC|20595|20596&N=4000788&Mo=9&pos=2&No=6&Nr=P_CatalogName:BC&cat=20596&Ns=P_Price|1||P_SignDesc1&lang=en-US&Sp=C&ec=BC-EC1423-Cat20595&topnav=
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Walmart
Shipping Information
Orders received and confirmed by 12:00 p.m. local time will ship within 24 hours for delivery by 5:00 p.m. the second business day following the order. Please see our Casket Delivery Schedule for more information
Once the casket has shipped you will be emailed a tracking number.
http://i.walmartimages.com/i/if/hmp/fusion/Casket_Delivery_Schedule.pdf
They are having to compete with Walmart and Costco now. The Funeral Industry has had the market tied up for many years selling Caskets, but not no more.
Matthews International Corp.
"In March, he will start selling a casket for $1,200, less than half the price of his main model, which sells for $2,850. The cheaper version will have fewer embellishments.
Casket Makers Dig In as Sales Take Hit.
By DANA MATTIOLI
FEBRUARY 24, 2010.
Hillenbrand Inc
An assembly line at Batesville Casket's plant in Indiana. The company's parent is diversifying beyond caskets.
.As their sales slow, some casket makers worry their business is hitting a dead end.
Sales of caskets have been declining for years as more people choose cremation. But the economic slump is compounding the industry's woes as those who do pick caskets buy cheaper, more spartan accommodations for the hereafter.
In response, casket makers are diversifying, building less expensive models and expanding cremation offerings. The country's biggest casket maker, Hillenbrand Inc., parent of Batesville Casket, is going outside the funeral business altogether. Earlier this year it said it would spend $435 million to buy K-Tron International Inc., which makes factory equipment.
"We are a very significant player in an industry that isn't growing," explains Hillenbrand Chief Executive Ken Camp.
Part of the problem is people like Marc Kruskol, a 52-year-old publicist in Palmdale, Calif. He doesn't want a casket burial regardless of how strong the economy is, he says. When he dies, he wants to donate his organs and be cremated. Traditional burials are a waste of cash, he says. "It's like taking a bag full of money and burying it."
Annual U.S. casket sales peaked by volume at 1.9 million caskets in 2000, according to the Casket and Funeral Supply Association of America. Since then they have drifted down as cremations, which cost less and are gaining broader acceptance, have risen.
For the 12 months through September 2009, U.S. casket sales totaled 1.69 million, down from 1.74 million a year earlier.
The average cost of a traditional burial is $7,200, compared with $1,400 for the crematory fee, some form of memorial service and an inexpensive urn, says John Ross, executive director of the Cremation Association of North America.
The pace of cremations in North America has typically grown at about one percentage point a year, he says, with 36% of deaths being followed by cremation in 2008. But, he says, he expects that cremations grew at a slightly faster pace in 2009, accounting for 38% of deaths.
People who do choose caskets or coffins—coffins have six sides, caskets are rectangular—have become more frugal during the slump, forgoing higher-priced "luxury" boxes made of precious metals and lined with expensive fabrics like silk.
Revenue at custom coffin maker Coffin It Up, for example, has declined 50% during the past 18 months, says co-owner Dusty Schoening, who runs the company with her husband, Brian, in Pahrump, Nev. In particular, demand has fallen for the couple's preordered custom coffins, which are embellished with engravings or artwork and sell for up to $10,000 apiece. To save money, the couple has cut back on trips and concerts. "We've had to make changes in our lifestyle," says Ms. Schoening.
The big players are making changes too. At casket giant Hillenbrand, Mr. Camp was considering buying a business outside the industry before the recession, but the slump persuaded him to pull the trigger.
The state of the economy scared people into tightening their purse strings so much "it spilled over into funeral services," he says. For its year ended Sept. 30, 2009, Hillenbrand's revenue fell 4.3% from a year earlier to $649.1 million, and for its quarter ended Dec. 31, revenue was down 3% to $161.5 million. Hillenbrand sells cremation products, but the lion's share of its sales are caskets.
Seeking a manufacturer with more growth potential, Mr. Camp checked out more than 400 companies. In January, he agreed to buy K-Tron, which has two main businesses: a "size reduction" unit, which makes machinery used at power plants to crush raw materials like coal, and a maker of equipment that conveys, weighs and dispenses raw materials within factories.
Jamie Clement, an equity analyst who covers Hillenbrand for Sidoti & Co., says diversifying with the K-Tron purchase makes sense because "death care is inherently low growth."
Hedging its bets is a strategy Batesville is familiar with. In 1929, its former parent used steady cash flow from the casket business to expand into hospital beds and other health equipment. In 2008, the parent, Hillenbrand Industries, spun off Batesville, along with Mr. Camp, the CEO, into a new company called Hillenbrand Inc.
Revenue at Matthews International Corp., the second largest U.S. casket maker, fell 4.6% to $780.9 million for its year ended Sept. 30. In its fiscal first quarter, sales nudged up overall but fell at the casket business as customers bought fewer and cheaper units. Matthews also makes bronze memorials for cemeteries, cremation equipment and mausoleums.
"We saw a decline in the overall price of our caskets sold," says CEO Joe Bartolacci. He's now making acquisitions in areas of the funeral business he considers more promising, such as cemetery markers.
Other casket makers are making lower-priced models. Jonathan Field, president of Jonathan Field Collection, which specializes in military caskets, started noticing that his customers were ordering more of his lower-priced caskets in December 2008 as the downturn deepened. In March, he will start selling a casket for $1,200, less than half the price of his main model, which sells for $2,850. The cheaper version will have fewer embellishments.
But Laurie D'Onofrio, a 50-year-old nurse from Staten Island, N.Y., would still prefer to be cremated. In her family, most people choose burial, but she thinks traditional burials are needlessly expensive—and a little icky. "I don't like the idea of rotting away," she says. "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust."
Now that would be some great news for Eternal Image and the Shareholders.
We could only hope for such a move.
WOW...IS .0004 NEAR?
Eternal Image Inc. (ETNL)
0.0019 ? -0.0004 (-17.39%)
Volume: 572,000 @ 9:59:01 AM ET
Bid Ask Day's Range
0.0017 0.0019 0.0015 - 0.0023
NOT FOR THE LONGS...R/S will be coming soon.
I totally agree. I think if it was great the would have mentioned the exact amount of increase.
"NIBBLE" NOT HARDLY
HOW MUCH LOWER DO YOU THINK IT WILL GO DANCY?
WOW....0022 AND FALLING.
THANKS CLINT...YOUR DOING SUCH A FINE JOB.
.0023 ALL TIME LOW, HOW MUCH LOWER WILL IT GO IS THE QUESTION
Yep, it won't be long now. They are so predictable. Wash,Rinse and repeat.
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., Oct. 18, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Eternal Image, Inc. (the "Company") (OTCQB:ETNL), a public company engaged in the design, manufacturing and marketing of officially licensed memorial products such as caskets, urns, monuments and vaults, today announced that September, 2010 has so far been the best month of sales for the Company this year. Total sales from September matched sales from both July and August combined.
"We had a very productive third quarter," said Clint Mytych, President & CEO, Eternal Image. "Preliminary numbers are indicating that revenue from quarter three increased by a significant double-digit percentage over quarter two. We believe this increase is due to two primary reasons: the release of multiple new product SKUs, and the increased interest in our products as a result of our updated and expanded profiles on Facebook and Twitter."
Official quarterly numbers will be disclosed on the Company's forthcoming Form 10-Q.
Tony is there to answer questions about the stock. I hope I helped you out Basser. When people have problems or questions they go to the IR person.
.0004 real soon.
WOW...NO ONE FROM ETERNAL IMAGE THERE...AMAZING AND NO PICTURES
"If the people who are saying Eternal Image is worthless, WHY are they still here? Why? "
TO ACTUALLY WARN NEW INVESTORS OF HOW ETERNAL IMAGE HAS SCAMMED INVESTORS OUT OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS ONLY TO LINE THEIR OWN POCKETS...
EXAMPLE:
MYTYCH CLINTON ROY:
30-Mar-10 8,029,985 ETNL.OB Sale at $0.01 per share.
(Proceeds of $80,299)
Great post. It's nice to read a well thought out post telling the real truth about what probably is going to happen with ETNL/Eternal Image.
Eternal Image has lost all crediablity with a lot of investors. They promise/promote what they are going to do and they fall flat on their face.
A R/S is in the very near future, there's so way around it. Especially with their track history.
"Bashers hurt by scaring off investors...Had they all stayed, we all would be rich today and EI might have ALL products out today...But that's EI's fault too? bashing the stock is Clint's fault? EI is still here and kicking despite all the calls from you and many others that EI would go out of business after 2008...Nope, not his fault..."
YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME.
I THOUGHT I HEARD IT ALL.
THANKS FOR MAKING ME LAUGH
Not yet, but soon you can. ETNL will be hitting record low's real soon.
WOW....I don't think there will be much conversations from the cheerleaders on this one. ETNL booted off for not filing.
Seems some things never change. It's getting to the point that you can't believe anything Eternal Images has to say. Time will tell.
I still believe ETNL will see .0004 before long.
"I got that bit of "trivia" as you call it from the company when I called and gave them my real name and didn't hide behind a message board alias. Can you imagine a company getting a call from Basser1 and going ahead and giving out any info at all to them??"
WHY IS IT THAT THEY'LL GIVE CERTAIN INFO. TO CERTAIN PEOPLE AND NOT TO EVERYONE SUCH IN A PR OR UPDATE ON THE WEBSITE.
IT SEEMS ONE DAY IT'S OKAY FOR THEM TO DO THIS AND THEN THE NEXT IT'S WRONG. I GUESS IT DEPENDS HOW IT FETS IN ONE'S AGENDA, RIGHT BASSER1?
I DO BELIEVE SOMEONE ONCE SAID. IF IT'S DOESN'T COME IN A PR OR OTHER COMPANY UPDATE, IT'S PURE BS.
THIS IS FUNNY.
".0004? LC....that's cold."
I think what Eternal Images has been doing to their share holders for the past few years is "COLD".
I believe I original got in at .0005-.0006, back in 2006.
It amazes me how things RE-PETE themselves.
This is way to funny. I saw pictures of Star Trek caskets and urns back in 2007-2008, this doesn't mean poop.
.0004 soon........
Finiancials Numbers do.
To give everyone the impression of a fantastic investment and to draw more shareholders to their stock. Only for them to dump more shares into the market or sell some of their stocks, that they issued to themselves.
Wash, rinse and repete.
ATM machine working at it's best.
For a lot of you all's sake, I hope they do too. But I highly doubt it.
They have a long history of diappointing shareholders.
If EI says it's going to be 20 day's they really mean 40 or never.
History rePete's itself oh so many times.
Where's the New License that was suppose to be mention in June. EI is full of sh_t.
3.1 million in revenue for 2007 and 17 to 20 million in a few years. All bullsh_t.