Custom Engraving at Menards

[Ronald Erickson]

I received a promotional email this morning from Menards. Now they offer, through a third party engraving company (not mine), custom engraving of granite and corian plaques. :

Menards Engraving.jpg

Here is the Menards link: http://www.menards.com/main/e-CustomCreations.html

It looks like $30 for a solid surface 8" x 16" address/name plaque and $55 to $95 for a quartz or granite pet memorial.

I'm actually not sure how I feel about it. I was certainly shocked when I opened the email.

[Chris DeGerolamo]

Maybe someone here will fess up and take responsibility

[Tim Bateson]

The AD has the engraving company's name up near the top.

[Joe Pelonio]

Walmart does custom laser engraving too.

http://www.walmart.com/cp/Personalized-Gifts/538412

[Kev Williams]

Why shocked? Doesn't seem any different than Home Depot having Joe's Crabinet Shack build and install the cabinets they display?

[Doug Novic]

Why shocked? Doesn't seem any different than Home Depot having Joe's Crabinet Shack build and install the cabinets they display?

Home Depot uses big name large manufacturers for their cabinets. Henry's Nail Benders usually do the installations after it is designed by the Inferior Decorators.

Either way I would like to have either engraving account. Someone did some hard selling. Good for them. I am using this as a lesson learned and one to be duplicated.

[Bill Cunningham]

Not impressed with either the design or quality. Stone with large flake quartz or mica render horrible photographs, and barely passable for line art, but it is cheaper so you get what you pay for maybe. It's like the old saying, if you want nice fresh hay, be prepared to pay the price. But, if your satisfied with hay that's already been cycled through the horse once, well that comes a little cheaper.