Oregon City Awards

I will start with the good things. Very nice showroom and the prices on the medals that I bought for my son’s soccer team where great. I got 11 great looking medals with all of the team players, team name, and year engraved on the back of them for about $ 60.00. Great deal.
Now comes the bad. At the end of the soccer season, all the parents pooled our money together to get the coaches gifts for their effort, but gift cards are only so nice and something tangible to remind them of all the fun would be better. An idea was presented to get them some whistles as gifts with the teams initials and year engraved on them. Great we can do this at the same place as the medals. I called up and asked if they had whistles which could be engraved. They had two choices, gold or silver, I said two silver ones please. «No, we only have two whistles, a gold one and a silver one.» May I bring some in that I get else where and have them engraved? «Sure.» So I show up with the two whistles that cost a combined $ 1.25 and asked to have the engraving done. My understanding of the conversation was that there was a $ 10.00 setup fee per each item and then it would cost $ 0.75 per letter. The person helping me told me that she would wave one of the setup fees because they are the same and are having the same engraving done to them. Sounds fair, two whistles, 4 letters, total of $ 13.00 dollars, I can handle that. Oh boy was I wrong. When I came to pick up the 11 medals, which were paid for upfront and the 2 engraved whistles that I bought elsewhere the total for the engraving on the 2 whistles was $ 40.00!!! With total shock I asked why and was then told that, «because I had bought the whistles elsewhere, mind you that they could not fill my order, it was a $ 15.00 flat fee to engrave them, EACH!!! So here I am standing in a great show room looking around seeing no prices posted anywhere, thinking, «That works out to $ 5.00 per LETTER!!!» With that being the case I just paid up and got out of there. If I had been well informed that there was a minimum flat fee of $ 15.00 for each item to be engraved that was not bought at Oregon City Awards, I would have had these whistles done to the nines. Soccer a balls on the sides, full names of the two coaches on each, lettering intertwining each other with the team initials and year. Instead all I got we what is pictured, for $ 40.00. I would have lost it if the other $ 10.00 setup fee was not waved.
So if you want to BUY IT AT and have IT ENGRAVED AT Oregon City Awards please do, but keep in mind that having ANYTHING that they DO NOT SUPPLY engraved by them on a simple basis as I did, DO NOT DO IT!!! If you do need to have Oregon City Awards engrave something as simple as I did that was bought elsewhere ask to see pricing upfront and then go elsewhere, it will save you a ton of money.