Prices not always as they appear at Home Depot

We went to order the garage doors at Home Depot a few Saturdays ago. On their display, the solid door is roughly $900 and the window panel says $300 (Prices are rough guesses. I don't quite remember.) So we go to order it thinking it should cost $1200 and the price is actually somewhere around $1500? What? That is not what the sign says. "Well since it is a special order we don't get as good of discounts from the manufacturer." "Okay but the sign says the door is this and the window panel is this. What are those prices then?" "Well you could order it separate like that but you'd have an extra panel and you'd have to assemble it." "Don't they come unassembled anyways?" "I wouldn't really suggest doing it that way" "But your telling me I can get more pieces for $300 less?" What a bizarre hassle! It made no sense, and I don't spend that much money on something so nonsensical. We ordered the doors from Menards where the sign says $590 and $335 and surprise! The special order total is $925. Plus, the door panels were the same R-value, just the glass was uninsulated.

Also, to special order 2 6-panel steel doors in a custom jamb depth at Home Depot, the Jeldwen doors (which I'm sure are really nice)are $100 more than the Pella doors and $200 more than Menard's Mastercraft doors. We will see if the cost difference correlates with a noticable quality difference. I doubt it. We opted for the Mastercrafts. On the garage doors, Menard's Ideal brand were really nice, so I'm glad we didn't pay the extra for the Home Depot ones.