Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Great Neck Plaza

Five hundred of the 2.25 inch button at $1.39 each, the rate that applies from 500 of one size, is $695.00 in buttons, flat shipping on an order that size is $19.99, and the order therefore comes to $714.99 before tax. That is the whole sum. There is no setup line under it, no artwork fee hiding behind it, and no second figure that appears once the order is placed. What it buys is five hundred full colour round badges at the size most societies settle on, printed from artwork you upload.

We wrote this page for the people who run clubs in and around Great Neck Plaza, because that total is usually the number a committee wants before it votes on anything. A membership secretary with a roster and a budget line can do the rest of the arithmetic from here without asking us for a quote first.

Where the total comes from

Two figures make up every order, and only two. The first is the rate per button, which is set by the count for that size. The 1.5 inch is $1.89 each. The 2.25 inch is $1.99 each. The 3 inch is $2.49 each. That price is the same for the first button and the five hundredth. Sizes are priced separately, so it is a hundred of one size that earns the break. Five hundred at $1.39 is $695.00 for the simple reason that five hundred of anything at $1.39 is $695.00. The range starts at the 1 inch for $1.49, with the 1.25 inch at $1.69.

The second figure is shipping, which is also flat and is charged once on the order rather than once per size or per design. It is set by the total number of buttons on the order: $9.99 up to 100, $14.99 up to 250, $19.99 up to 500, and $24.99 up to 1000. An order of five hundred falls in the $19.99 band, which is where the $714.99 comes from.

For a treasurer this is a convenient structure, because the only variable worth modelling is headcount. Multiply the roster by the size price, look up one shipping figure, add them, done.

The step that sits at 500

Five hundred buttons is the last quantity inside the $19.99 shipping band. The five hundred and first button carries the same $1.39 as every other button at that count, but it moves the order into the $24.99 band, so that one extra badge effectively adds five dollars to the shipping line as well as its own price. Nobody should shrink a legitimate order to dodge that. It is worth knowing, though, when a committee is tempted to round up by a handful of spares out of caution.

The same logic runs in your favour underneath the line. If your roster comes to four hundred and eighty and you were debating whether to add spares, you have twenty buttons of headroom before the shipping band changes at all. Each of those spares costs $1.99 and nothing else.

The five sizes and what each one does

The 1.5 inch at $1.89 is lapel scale. It sits neatly on a jacket, it does not flap on a thin shirt, and it is the usual choice when every member wears one at every meeting and nobody wants to be conspicuous about it.

The 2.25 inch at $1.99 is the meeting badge. It is large enough to carry a crest and a line of text under it, which is why most societies land there.

The 3 inch at $2.49 reads from across a hall. Committees tend to use it for the people who need to be identifiable at a glance: the chair, the desk, the two or three volunteers everyone else is supposed to find.

Sizes can sit on the same order at their own band, set by their own count. Shipping still counts the total number of buttons, not the number of sizes.

Point nine of a mile

The thing worth building this page around is how tight the surrounding cluster is. University Gardens is 0.9 miles away. Manhasset is 1.6 miles, Kings Point is 2.3 miles, North Hills is 2.6 miles, and Flower Hill is 2.8 miles. Every one of those sits inside three miles. A club roster can name five separate places and still describe a group of people who are, in practice, neighbours.

That matters for badge orders more than it sounds like it should. A society whose members are scattered across a county has to plan distribution as its own problem. A society whose members are inside a three mile circle usually does not. One person can bring the box to the next two meetings and hand them out without building a system around it.

Coming west from the shop

Great Neck Plaza is 18.5 miles west of the shop in a straight line, in Nassau County, under the 11021 ZIP. The distance is included because it is a real fact about your end of Nassau County and not because it changes the price. Shipping is flat by quantity, so the figure on your order is set by how many buttons are on it and by nothing else.

Who tends to order these

For the membership secretary keeping a roster: the published rate means your order sheet is one multiplication. When six people join after the order goes in, a second order of six costs six times the size price plus the lowest shipping band, and the per button figure has not moved.

For the treasurer presenting a budget: there is a single total to defend, and it does not shift between the quote and the invoice. No minimum order to explain, no discount tier someone will ask why you missed.

For the volunteer coordinator running an event desk: mixing sizes is the cheap way to separate roles. Officers in 3 inch, general members in 1.5 inch, one flat shipping charge across the lot.

For someone restarting a dormant society: start with the roster you actually have. There is no penalty at small quantities, because the per button price at twenty is the per button price at five hundred.

Questions from clubs

Our society in Great Neck Plaza needs 500 of the 2.25 inch. Is it really $1.99 each at that quantity?

Yes. $1.39 is the 500 to 999 rate for the 2.25 inch, so 500 of them is $695.00, and with the $19.99 shipping band the order is $714.99 before tax.

We are a Great Neck Plaza club and our list came out at 520, not 500. What changes?

The twenty extra buttons cost $1.99 each like all the others. The shipping band changes from $19.99 to $24.99, because the order has crossed 500 buttons.

Half our members are in Great Neck Plaza and half are in University Gardens. Should we place two separate orders?

You can, but it costs more. Two orders of 250 carry $14.99 each, which is $29.98 in shipping, against $19.99 for a single order of 500. Since University Gardens is 0.9 miles away, one order and one handover is usually the simpler answer.

Can a Great Neck Plaza order include more than one size?

Yes. Each size is charged at its own rate, worked out from its own count on the same order, and the shipping band is decided by the total number of buttons across all of them.

Our Great Neck Plaza chapter takes new members through the year. Can we reorder the same design later?

A second order is priced on its own count, so sixty now and sixty in the spring is two orders of sixty rather than one of a hundred and twenty. A follow up run of 100 or fewer falls in the $9.99 shipping band.