Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Manhattan, New York County

The first real decision on an order from this far out is whether you want to collect it in person or have it shipped, and for a lot of people out that way the honest answer is shipping. Pickup costs you nothing on top of the buttons. Shipping is a flat charge set by how many buttons are on the order, so the whole question comes down to whether the trip is worth making for the size of order you are placing. Plenty of Manhattan orders go out by carrier for exactly that reason, and plenty of them do not.

Weighing the trip against the flat shipping charge

There is no clever answer here, only arithmetic you can do yourself. An order of up to 100 buttons carries a $9.99 shipping charge. Up to 250 buttons it is $14.99, up to 500 it is $19.99, and up to 1000 it is $24.99. Those are flat charges, not estimates, and they do not move with distance. Set that number against what the round trip actually costs you in fuel, tolls and parking, and the decision usually makes itself. Small orders often tip toward shipping. Larger ones sometimes tip the other way, particularly if somebody on the team is making the drive anyway.

One thing worth saying plainly: choosing pickup does not change what the buttons cost. A size's own count picks its rate, not the order total. You are only deciding whether to pay the flat shipping charge or handle the collection yourself.

The address line is what we actually go by

We have no ZIP code on file for Manhattan. That is not a problem, but it does mean the street address you type is doing all of the work, so it is worth being deliberate about it. Give the full street number and street name, and then give us the second line as well: apartment, floor, suite, unit, building name, whichever applies. If there is a doorman desk, a mailroom, or a building the carrier has to be told about, that belongs in the address too rather than in a note somewhere else.

If a checkout form expects a ZIP and you know the one your own mail uses, go ahead and enter it. Our record simply does not carry one for this area, so we route from the street address rather than from a postal code lookup. People ordering for a team sometimes have the address copied out of a group chat with the unit number stripped off. Read it once before you submit and put the missing piece back.

Thirty two miles of straight line

The straight line distance from the shop is 32.0 miles, heading west. That is a measurement on a map, not a route and not a travel time, and nobody should plan around it as though it were either. It is useful for one thing only: it tells you this is a real trip rather than an errand, which is why the pickup or ship decision sits at the top of this page instead of buried at the bottom.

What the distance does not affect is price. Buttons cost the same per button no matter where the order is going, and shipping is charged by how many buttons are on the order, not by how far they travel.

Five sizes, and what a hundred of one does

There are five round pin-back buttons and nothing else. The 1.5 inch is $1.89 each. The 2.25 inch is $1.99 each. The 3 inch is $2.49 each. Two smaller options exist as well, the 1 inch for $1.49 and the 1.25 inch for $1.69.

Nothing about the rate changes until one size reaches 100. 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. Reaching for a number only helps if it is a number of ONE size, because the counts for different sizes never add together. The per button rate is a per size question and the shipping tier is a whole order question.

Everything is printed full colour from artwork you upload. A team logo, a player photo, a jersey number, a mascot, a slogan, all of it prints the same way.

A worked order for 500 supporter buttons

Here is the arithmetic on a common order, done out in full.

Five hundred of the 2.25 inch button at $1.39 each, the 500 to 999 rate for that size, is $695.00 in buttons. Five hundred buttons falls in the up to 500 shipping tier, so the flat shipping charge is $19.99. The order comes to $714.99 before tax.

Notice where 500 sits. It is right at the top of the $19.99 tier. Go past 500 buttons and the order moves into the next tier at $24.99, so a handful of extras tacked on at the end costs more than the extras themselves. If you are hovering near that line, decide before you check out whether you want the spares badly enough to move tiers. The same logic applies at 100 and at 250.

When the order covers nearby places too

We also cover Brooklyn, 7.5 miles away, Bronx, 8.3 miles away, and Queens, 8.8 miles away. If your list of families is spread across those, remember that the shipping charge counts total buttons on one order, not destinations. One order with everything on it pays one flat charge. Splitting it into separate orders means each one is charged its own tier, which usually costs more overall. Most groups place one order to a single address and divide the buttons themselves.

Four people this page is probably for

The parent collecting money on the sideline. You want a per head number you can text to twenty people without caveats. Take the button price, add the shipping charge for the total quantity, divide. Nothing about that figure changes later.

The coach ordering for a full squad. You are buying for players, siblings and grandparents, which is a bigger number than the roster suggests. Count the real list before you pick a quantity, because the count is what sets the shipping tier.

The student running a supporters' section. You probably want the 1.5 inch at

$1.89, because the point is handing out a lot of them rather than one large one each. The published rate means a big handout quantity costs exactly what a small one does per button.

The booster club treasurer. You need one total to bring to a vote, not a range. 20 percent comes off at 100 of one size, 25 percent at 250 and 30 percent at 500. There is no third line.

Questions people ask

Manhattan has no ZIP code on your system, so what do I enter? Enter the full street address, including apartment, floor, suite or unit on the second line. We route from the street address. If your checkout form insists on a postal code and you know yours, entering it does no harm.

Can I collect a Manhattan order instead of paying for shipping? Yes. Pickup is an option on any order and it removes the flat shipping charge entirely. It is worth weighing against the trip, since this is a genuine drive rather than an errand around the corner.

What does a 500 button order to Manhattan actually come to? Five hundred of the 2.25 inch at $1.39 each, the 500 to 999 rate for that size, is $695.00, the flat shipping charge at that quantity is $19.99, and the total is $714.99 before tax.

Do I get a better per button price on a large Manhattan order? No. There is a discount for going bigger, and it is counted inside a single size rather than across the order. There is a step on the buttons and a step on the postage, and they are not the same step.

We have families in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, should that be one order? Usually one order to a single address, then divide the buttons yourselves. The shipping charge is based on total buttons on the order, so separate orders each pick up their own flat charge.