02/23/2026
-------BEWARE OF DEATH INDUSTRY PRICE GOUGING-------
We see so many ridiculous quotes that our customers bring us from other local monument companies that nothing really surprises us anymore, but this one takes the cake.
A family came in looking for just a standard gray upright monument for one person, no frills or upgrades just a basic traditional stone. Something we always sell for under $2,000, usually in the $1700 to $1900 range depending on a few variables. It's a 24x24inch tablet that sits on a 36inch base. One of our competitors quoted $4200 on the exact same stone!!! Keep in mind the cost for the raw granite on this stone is $426 and that's our price, which theirs is probably lower because they are higher volume and get better prices than we do. Now after that $426 there's obviously more overhead to go into the manufacturing and installation but to add another nearly $3,800 is downright insane and to be quite honest it's just damn disgusting.
Please be cautious when dealing with anything to do with the death industry, most people are not in the right state of mind to make sound decisions when they are going through the grieving process and become targets for price gouging. Always do your homework and protect yourself when dealing with any funeral home, cemetery or monument company.
The fact that we constantly hear from customers that other companies try and bash us tells us that we are doing exactly what we set out to do, so Eternity StoneWorks thanks them for acknowledging all of our hard work🥰
