Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Garden City Park, New York

North New Hyde Park, New Hyde Park and Williston Park all sit within a mile and a half of one another, and Garden City Park sits right in the middle of that group, with Herricks nine tenths of a mile off and Mineola one and three tenths of a mile away. Five names, one small stretch of Nassau County, and a lot of overlap in how people write them down. If you run a counter, a register or a front window anywhere in that cluster and you want a pin customers will actually take home, this page covers the sizes, the per button price and the shipping tiers so you can work out a total before you upload anything.

Four names built on the same root

Three of the places listed above carry Park in the name and two of them carry Hyde Park, which is why mail, delivery notes and order forms in this corner of Nassau County get mixed up so regularly. Herricks is 0.9 miles out, North New Hyde Park is 1.1 miles, Mineola is 1.3 miles, and Williston Park and New Hyde Park are both 1.4 miles. Those are straight line figures, so the roads between them run longer. For our purposes none of it changes anything: we price by button size and by the number of buttons on the order, not by which of the five names is on the label. ZIP 11040 covers Garden City Park, and an order placed from any of the neighbouring addresses is priced exactly the same way.

Five sizes, and what each one costs

We make round pin-back buttons in five sizes and nothing else. The 1.5 inch is $1.89 per button. The 2.25 inch is $1.99 per button. The 3 inch is $2.49 per button. All five are printed in full colour from artwork you upload. The 1 inch at $1.49 is the least expensive button here, with the 1.25 inch at $1.69 the next one up.

Read those prices literally, because they are the 1 to 99 rates with nothing added. Those two counts are priced differently now: ten at the listed rate, and a thousand of a single size at a quote rather than an automatic figure. A bigger total does not help on its own. It is a bigger count of one size that moves a rate, which is why mixing sizes to reach a number does nothing. Each size has four price bands: 1 to 99, 100 to 249, 250 to 499 and 500 to 999. The rate band answers to one size's count and the shipping tier answers to the total.

Size choice comes down to what has to fit inside the circle. The 1.5 inch holds a mark and a couple of words. The 2.25 inch takes a mark plus a short line of text underneath. The 3 inch gives you room for a logo, a line of copy and a border, and it is the one to reach for if your design has fine lettering in it. Whatever you pick, look at the artwork at its printed diameter on screen before you commit to it. A logo that reads well on a shopfront sign is a different thing at 1.5 inches across.

Where the shipping bands change

Shipping is flat and it is set by the total number of buttons on the order:

• up to 100 buttons $9.99
• up to 250 buttons $14.99
• up to 500 buttons $19.99
• up to 1000 buttons $24.99

There is a discount schedule and it is printed, which is a different thing from a rate you have to ask for. An order of 250 ships at $14.99. An order of 251 ships at $19.99. If your count has landed just over a boundary and the extra buttons were a rounding decision rather than a real need, trimming back under the line saves you the difference. The opposite is also true: if you are sitting at 255 and you have already paid the $19.99, you have room up to 500 buttons at the same shipping figure, and every one of those extra buttons is charged at the same rate table as the first.

A four hundred button order, worked out

Here is a real calculation with no rounding hidden in it. Four hundred of the 3 inch button at $1.87 each, the 250 to 499 rate for that size, is $748.00 in buttons. Four hundred falls in the band up to 500, so shipping is $19.99. The order comes to $767.99 before tax.

Note what is happening in that arithmetic. Four hundred buttons did not earn a cheaper per button rate than forty would have. The $2.49 held from the first button to the last. The only quantity effect in the whole total is the $19.99 shipping band, and that same $19.99 would have applied at 300 buttons or at 500.

The seventeen mile line

Garden City Park is 17.0 miles south west of the shop in a straight line. That is a straight line measurement, not a route and not a distance you would drive as stated. It is worth knowing mostly because it tells you roughly where you sit relative to us: far enough that shipping is the normal way orders reach this part of Nassau County, close enough that we treat the whole cluster of neighbouring places as one service area rather than as separate outposts.

Four counters, four different pins

If you run a small clothing or gift shop, the pin that tends to work is the one that is worth having on its own. Customers take a pin because they like the design, not because it says thank you. Put your mark on it and let the shop name do the work quietly.

If you run a coffee counter or a bakery, think about the 1.5 inch. It is the size that gets pinned to a tote or an apron without dominating it, and at $1.89 per button you can hand them out on a loyalty milestone without rebuilding your margins around it.

If you run a hardware store, a bike shop or anything where staff are on the floor all day, the 2.25 inch works as a staff identifier. The listed figure is the 1 to 99 rate, and it improves at three points above that.

If you sell at a market stall or a seasonal pop-up alongside your fixed location, the 3 inch earns its higher per button price by being readable from across a table. It is the size people notice on a display board before they notice anything else on it.

Questions worth settling before you upload

Which button size should a shop in Garden City Park choose for a loyalty giveaway?

If the design is just your logo, the 1.5 inch at $1.89 is enough. If you want the logo plus a line of text people can read without leaning in, go to the 2.25 inch at $1.99. The 3 inch at $2.49 is for designs with real detail in them.

Does a bigger order from a Garden City Park retailer bring the per button price down?

It does now. The rate improves at 100, 250 and 500 of one size, and the improvement applies to the whole run of that size rather than to the buttons above the line. 20 is charged at the listed rate. 1000 of one size is the point where a person quotes it instead. Two things respond to a bigger count: what each button of that size costs, and the single postage line.

I want three separate designs for my Garden City Park store. Is that three orders?

You can keep them on one order. Each design is its own artwork upload, but shipping is worked out on the total number of buttons on the order, so combining the three designs is what keeps you inside a single shipping band instead of paying three separate shipping charges.

My mail comes addressed to New Hyde Park but I am told the store is in Garden City Park. Does that affect pricing?

Not at all. Nothing on your order is priced by address. Whether your paperwork says Garden City Park, New Hyde Park, North New Hyde Park, Williston Park, Herricks or Mineola, you pay the same per button price and the same shipping band.

What does 400 of the 3 inch button actually cost for a Garden City Park shop?

$748.00 for the buttons at $1.87 each, plus $19.99 shipping for an order in the up to 500 band, which is $767.99 before tax.