Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Baldwin Harbor, New York

Oceanside and Freeport sit 1.8 miles away in opposite directions, a matched pair of neighbours at an identical remove, and Rockville Centre, Hempstead and Merrick fill in behind them at 2.6, 2.7 and 3.0 miles. We make custom pin-back buttons for all of them, and for Baldwin Harbor in the middle, in Nassau County, ZIP code 11510. Full colour, printed from artwork you upload, in five round sizes and nothing else. This page is written for people ordering party favours: birthdays, anniversaries, the milestone parties that a planner has to stock with something guests will actually pick up off the table.

A neighbourhood with no obvious centre of gravity

The equal distances are more useful than they look. When two of your neighbours sit at exactly the same remove, there is no default direction, no single nearby place that everything is naturally measured against. Party planners working this stretch of Nassau County tend to run events in several of these places in the same season, and a favour that works at a sweet sixteen in one of them works just as well at a fortieth anniversary two miles the other way. The practical consequence for an order is simple: the design is what changes between events, not the product, and not the price.

The five sizes and what each one is for

There are exactly three. The 1.5 inch button is $1.89. The 2.25 inch button is $1.99. The 3 inch button is $2.49. The rate falls in steps rather than on a curve, at 100, 250 and 500 of a size. Two smaller diameters round out the range, the 1 inch at $1.49 and the 1.25 inch at $1.69.

The 1.5 inch is the favour size. It is small enough to sit in a bowl by the door or clip to a place card without dominating it, and at ten cents under the 2.25 inch it is the one most large favour runs land on. The 2.25 inch is the readable size: if the design carries a name, a date and a graphic all at once, this is where the text stops fighting for room. The 3 inch is the statement size, worth it when the button is the keepsake rather than a small extra, or when the artwork has fine detail that would close up smaller.

Mixing sizes on one order is fine. A common split is the small size for every guest and a handful of the large size for the people being celebrated.

Where the per button rate steps down

This is worth stating plainly because most print pricing does not work this way. Quantity moves the rate, but only within a single size and only at three points. Count each size on its own, because that count is what sets the rate for it. The breaks in the rate are published rather than negotiated. If you are planning an order and wondering whether to push the count higher to reach a better number, the answer is 100, 250 and 500 of a single size, and nothing in between.

Quantity moves two figures, and the two are counted differently: the rate per size, the shipping across every size.

A worked order, start to finish

Say a planner needs 400 of the 1.5 inch button for an anniversary party. At $1.42 each, 25 percent under the 1 to 99 figure, that is $568.00 in buttons. An order of that size falls into the $19.99 flat shipping tier, so the total comes to $587.99 before tax.

The tiers, counted by the total number of buttons on the order regardless of size: up to 100 buttons is $9.99, up to 250 is $14.99, up to 500 is $19.99, and up to 1000 is $24.99.

Notice what that means near a boundary. An order of 260 buttons and an order of 500 buttons pay the same $19.99. If you are sitting just over a line and you have any real use for the extra, the shipping is already paid for. If you do not have a use for them, do not order them: the buttons themselves still cost $1.49, $1.69, $1.89, $1.99 or $2.49 each whichever side of the line you are on, so extras are never free and never cheaper.

How far out you are

Baldwin Harbor lies 20.1 miles south west of the shop in a straight line. That is a geographic fact rather than a route, and it has no bearing on what the order costs. Shipping is set by the tier your button count falls into and nothing else.

Getting the artwork to work at button size

A round button crops a square design, and it crops more than people expect. Keep anything you need read, a name, a date, a year, well inside the circle rather than near the edge, and give the whole design a little breathing room. Solid colour and bold shapes hold up at 1.5 inches. Thin outlines, small type and pale tints on white do not, which is the main reason detailed artwork tends to go on the 3 inch.

Full colour is standard. There is no extra charge for a design with many colours versus a design with two, so there is no reason to simplify artwork for cost reasons.

Four situations we see

The party planner running several events at once. You are not ordering for one date, you are ordering for a calendar. Since the per button price is identical up to ninety-nine of that size, there is no arithmetic advantage to batching events into one giant order, only a shipping one. Group by what shares a tier, not by what makes the biggest number.

The parent planning a kid's birthday. Forty guests, one design, the small size. This is the simplest order on the site. Forty of the 1.5 inch is $75.60 in buttons and sits in the $9.99 tier.

The couple marking an anniversary. Usually two designs: one for guests and a slightly different one, often larger, for the immediate family. Both go on the same order and both count toward the same shipping tier.

The person handed the favours job by a committee. You need a number you can bring back to other people. The per button prices above plus the right shipping tier is the whole cost. There is nothing else to add.

Questions we get from Baldwin Harbor

Which size should a Baldwin Harbor party favour order use? For favours handed to every guest, the 1.5 inch at $1.89 is the usual choice. Move up to 2.25 inch at $1.99 if the design has to carry a name and a date together, and to 3 inch at $2.49 if the button is the keepsake itself.

Does a 400 button order for a party in Baldwin Harbor cost less per button than a 40 button order? It does. 40 of the 1.5 inch is $1.89 each and 400 of it is $1.42 each, because 400 reaches the 250 to 499 band. The ladder has four rungs per size and the lowest online one is 500 to 999. The 1.5 inch is $1.89 each at forty and $1.42 each at four hundred, a difference the 250 to 499 band accounts for. Only the flat shipping tier differs.

If a Baldwin Harbor order mixes 1.5 inch and 3 inch buttons, how is shipping worked out? The tiers count total buttons on the order, not sizes. Two hundred small plus fifty large is 250 buttons, which is the $14.99 tier.

My Baldwin Harbor order comes to 260 buttons. Is there any reason to round it up? Only if you genuinely want more. At 260 you are already in the $19.99 tier, which covers you all the way to 500, so the shipping will not change. The extra buttons themselves still cost full price each.

We have two Baldwin Harbor parties on different dates. Should they be one order or two? There is a discount at 100 of a size, a better one at 250 and the best online one at 500. One combined order pays one shipping tier instead of two, so combining is usually the lower total, as long as you are happy to keep the second set of favours aside until you need them.