Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Bayville, New York

## The five sizes, and what each one does on a table

Does ordering a bigger pile of booth buttons bring the price per button down? Yes, within a single size. The first break is at 100 of a single size and takes 20 percent off every one of them, and there are two more at 250 and 500. Sizes are priced separately, so it is a hundred of one size that earns the break. One is charged at the listed rate. One thousand of one size is the point where a person quotes it instead. That single fact changes how an exhibitor from Bayville should think about the whole order, because it means the count on your order form is a question about how many hands you expect to fill, not a lever you pull to unlock a better rate. The arithmetic is honest and it is the same arithmetic, up to ninety-nine of that size, whatever else is on the order.

There are five round pin-back buttons and nothing else. The 1 inch is $1.49 each, the 1.25 inch is $1.69 each, the 1.5 inch is $1.89 each, the 2.25 inch is $1.99 each, and the 3 inch is $2.49 each. The rate for every band is published up front, so choosing a size is purely a design decision rather than a budget manoeuvre.

The 1.5 inch is the classic handout. It reads as a giveaway, it sits in a bowl on the corner of a table without dominating it, and a visitor can drop one in a pocket without thinking about it. It carries a logo and a short word or two. It does not carry a URL, a tagline and a QR code all at once.

The 2.25 inch costs ten cents more than the 1.5 inch, and the ten cents buys you room. A logo plus a line of text becomes legible across a walkway rather than only in the hand. If your booth graphic has a wordmark you actually want people to read, this is usually the size that earns its keep.

The 3 inch is a statement. It works when the button is the thing being handed over deliberately, staff wearing one on a lanyard strap or a badge holder, or a session badge that needs to be identifiable from the other side of a room. Fewer of these go out per show, which matters less than usual given the per button rate you can look up.

## A worked order, so nothing is hypothetical

Take 750 of the 1.5 inch button, a reasonable count for an exhibitor working a multi day floor. At $1.32 each, the rate that applies from 500 of one size, that is $990.00 in buttons. Flat shipping for an order of that size is $24.99, so the order comes to $1014.99 before tax.

Notice what is not in that calculation. There is no setup charge hiding in the size, no separate artwork fee bolted on at the end, and no rate that would have been different at 400 or at 900. The listed rate holds from one button up to ninety-nine of that size. If you are writing this into a show budget spreadsheet, two cells will do it.

## Five covered neighbours inside six miles

Bayville is unusual on this site for how tightly its neighbours cluster. Locust Valley is 2.3 miles away, Glen Cove 4.9, Lloyd Harbor 5.4, Glen Head 5.7, and Muttontown 6.0. Every one of the five nearest places we cover sits inside a six mile radius, which is a narrower spread than most of the towns we cover.

That matters more than it sounds for exhibitor work, because trade show booths are frequently staffed by people who do not all live at the same address. A sales lead in one of those five, a product person in another, a regional partner in a third. The buttons themselves do not care, but the logistics of who receives the carton do, and when your working radius is this compact the answer is usually that one person takes delivery for everybody.

The shop itself is 8.9 miles east, measured as a straight line rather than any route you would actually take. That figure is here because people ask for it, not because the distance changes anything about the order.

## Where the shipping tiers actually bite

Shipping is flat by total button count on the order: $9.99 up to 100, $14.99 up to 250, $19.99 up to 500, and $24.99 up to 1000. The order has two step functions in it now, the rate band and the shipping tier.

The consequence is a small one that is easy to miss. An order landing just above 500 buttons pays the $24.99 tier, while an order at or just under 500 pays $19.99. If your count is hovering right at that line for no strong reason, it is worth a second look, either trimming to stay under or committing to a count that genuinely uses the higher tier. The same logic applies at 100 and at 250. Nobody is going to talk you out of the count you need for your floor, but a count chosen by habit is worth checking against the boundary.

## Full colour, from the file you send

Every button is printed in full colour from artwork you upload. There is no palette limit, no extra charge for a gradient, and no reason to flatten a booth graphic down to two colours before sending it.

The practical advice is about the curve rather than the colour. A pin-back button wraps at the edge, so the outermost ring of your artwork bends away from the viewer. Anything you need read, a wordmark, a booth number, a short URL, should sit comfortably inside that ring rather than hugging the perimeter. Backgrounds and colour fields can run right off the edge and usually should.

## Four ways exhibitors come at this

**If you are the marketing coordinator handed a booth budget:** the published bands are your friend at approval time, because the rate for your count is knowable before you ask for the money. You can hand your director a per unit figure that does not need a footnote explaining what happens if the count changes.

**If you are the founder doing your first show:** order the count you can plausibly hand out, not the count that felt like a good deal. There is no deal to chase. The only thing a larger number buys you is more buttons.

**If you are running booths at several shows a year:** the price you see now is the price on the next order at whatever count that one lands at, which makes repeat planning simple. Watch the tier boundaries and otherwise order what each floor needs.

**If you are the designer, not the buyer:** you are working with three fixed diameters and full colour. Design for the bend at the edge, supply the strongest version of the mark you have, and let whoever holds the budget pick between $1.49, $1.69, $1.89, $1.99 and $2.49.

## Questions we get from this corner of Nassau County

**If a Bayville order lands just over 500 buttons, which shipping tier applies?**

The $24.99 tier. Tiers are set by total buttons on the order, so crossing 500 by any amount moves you up from $19.99. Worth checking if your count is close to the line.

**Does an exhibitor in Bayville pay a different per button price than a customer closer to the shop?** No. The five prices are $1.49, $1.69, $1.89, $1.99 and $2.49, and they apply everywhere we sell, and those are the rates up to ninety-nine of a size.

**Can one Bayville order cover staff who are actually spread across Locust Valley and Glen Cove?** The order ships to a single address, so the usual approach is one recipient who then distributes. Given that both are inside five miles, that is rarely a burden.

**Which size should a Bayville exhibitor choose for a giveaway bowl?**

The 1.5 inch at $1.89, in most cases. It reads as something to take rather than something to be given, which is the behaviour you want at a bowl.

**Is there any Bayville pickup option instead of shipping?**

Local pickup is available and carries no shipping tier, so the total is simply the button count times the rate for that count.