Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Montauk, New York

$695.00 in buttons plus $19.99 in flat shipping is $714.99 before tax, and that is the entire cost of 500 of the 2.25 inch button at $1.39 each, the 500 to 999 band, earned by that size's own count. What that sum buys is five hundred separate handoffs: a full colour round pin-back button, printed from artwork you upload, given to one person at a time across a table or a hallway. It is a different kind of spend from a box of folded leaflets: a leaflet goes into a tote bag and comes out at the hotel, while a button goes onto a lanyard and walks the floor for the rest of the event.

Most of the orders written against this page are exhibitor orders. Somebody has a booth, a banner, a table, and a bag of things to put on that table, and the buttons are the part that people actually pick up and wear. The 11954 ZIP code sits inside the Town of East Hampton in Suffolk County, and a Montauk exhibitor ordering handouts for a conference is working from the same five sizes and the same printed rate ladder as anybody else on this site.

Five sizes, and the bands they share

There are five round sizes 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. The 1 inch, $1.49, and the 1.25 inch, $1.69, complete the range at the small end.

Those areper button rate you can look up per button. 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. The honest advice is to order your real headcount and then check one thing: whether a single size is sitting just under 100, 250 or 500. This matters more than it sounds when you are building an exhibitor budget, because it means you size the order to the event rather than to a pricing table. Order the count you expect to hand out. You are not losing anything by failing to round up to some magic number, because there is no magic number to round up to.

The 2.25 inch is the size most conference orders use, because it carries a logo and a short line of text at the distance from which somebody decides whether to stop walking. The 1.5 inch suits a mark alone with no wording. The 3 inch is a poster you can pin, usually ordered in smaller counts for staff rather than for general handout.

What a button costs at your count

Shipping is flat and set by the total number of buttons on the order, not by what is in each design. Up to 100 buttons is $9.99. Up to 250 is $14.99. Up to 500 is $19.99. Up to 1,000 is $24.99.

That is why the worked example above lands where it does. Five hundred buttons sits exactly at the top of the $19.99 tier. Add twenty more and the buttons themselves still cost $1.99 each, exactly as before, but the whole order steps into the $24.99 band. On an order that size it is a small difference and may be worth paying without a second thought. It is simply better known in advance than discovered at checkout.

The far eastern edge of what we cover

Straight line, the distance from the shop to Montauk is 76.7 miles, due east. Nothing else we cover in Suffolk County is further out. Springs, which has its own page, is 11.1 miles away and is the nearest of our covered places.

That distance is a geography fact and not much else. Buttons are small and dense and they ship in a box, and the box costs what the tier says it costs whether it travels a short hop or the full 76.7 miles. It is worth stating plainly, because people assume an order going that far east must cost more, and here it does not.

Artwork that still reads at 2.25 inches

A 2.25 inch circle is smaller than most people picture when they hand over a logo file. The printed area also wraps slightly around the curved edge of the shell, so anything sitting hard against the outer rim of your artwork can end up on the side of the button rather than on its face. Two practical consequences. Keep type and logos inside a comfortable margin from the edge. And cut the wording down: a company name and one short phrase reads at conversational distance, a company name plus a tagline plus a URL plus a booth number does not.

If you are running several designs, keep them one per concept rather than one per audience. Six near identical circles are six designs nobody can tell apart at arm's length.

Counting the order against the event, not the aisle

The count people get wrong is the one they estimate from attendance figures. An attendance number is not a handout number. The handout number is how many conversations you expect a staffed table to have, multiplied by the number of days, plus a reserve for the people who take two because a colleague wants one. A button carrying a logo and no date is as usable at the next event as at this one, which argues for estimating on the generous side. Estimating generously costs what the extra buttons cost at their band, and occasionally less than that, when the extras carry a size over a boundary.

Four kinds of exhibitor order

The first-time exhibitor with a single table. You have one design, one size, and a number you are guessing at. Guess with the 2.25 inch, keep the count under the top of a shipping tier if the budget is tight, and know that the per button figure will be identical if you come back next year with a much larger count.

The association or chapter handing out member badges. Your design is fixed and your count is your roster plus a margin. This is the order that repeats, and it is the one where the published rate is most useful, because the same artwork at the same price makes next year's budget line a copy of this year's.

The multi-day vendor with several designs. You are combining designs on one order. The shipping tier counts every button on the order together, so splitting three designs across three separate orders costs you three shipping charges rather than one.

The marketing coordinator ordering on behalf of somebody else. You are not the person standing at the booth and you are approving a spend for a team in a Montauk hotel ballroom you will never see. The worked total at the top of this page is the format worth copying into your approval request: buttons at a per button rate for your count, one shipping line, one figure before tax.

Common questions

Can I combine two designs on a single Montauk order and still pay $1.99 each on the 2.25 inch size?

Yes. The price per button is set by size, not by how many designs share the order. Two designs at 250 each is 500 of one size, which earns the 500 to 999 rate of $1.39 apiece, and the shipping tier reads the same combined total.

We are exhibiting at a Montauk conference and want 520 buttons instead of 500. What changes?

Two sizes on one order climb two separate ladders. What changes is the shipping tier. At 501 buttons and above the order moves out of the $19.99 band and into the $24.99 band for orders up to 1,000.

Is the button price different for a Montauk order than for one closer to the shop?

No. The five per button prices are the same figures everywhere: $1.49, $1.69, $1.89, $1.99 and $2.49. Distance does not enter the per button price, and the shipping charge is the flat tier for the quantity, not a rate calculated from the mileage.

Our Montauk group wants 1,000 buttons. Is there a break at that quantity?

There is no break. Ten is charged at the listed rate. A thousand of one size is the point where a person quotes it instead. Ninety-nine of a size costs more in total than a hundred of it, which is worth a second look at a boundary.

We have people at a Montauk event and others at a second booth elsewhere. Should that be one order or two?

Put it on one order if a single delivery destination works for you, because shipping is charged once per order against the combined button count. Two orders means two shipping charges, each read from the tier that its own quantity falls into.