Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Moriches, New York

Mastic is 1.4 miles away, Shirley is 2.7 miles away and Mastic Beach is 2.8 miles away, three neighbours packed close enough together that a band rehearsing in one and loading in at another barely changes ZIP codes on the way. We cover all of them, and the buttons come out the same whichever of those addresses ends up on the order.

This page is written around one kind of order: merch for a small act. Not a tour with a warehouse behind it, just a few people who need something to sit on the table next to the records and the shirts. Buttons take that slot well. They hold a full colour image, they have no sizes to stock, and nobody at the table has to ask whether you have a medium left.

## Three names that look nearly identical on a shipping label

The town shares its name root with two neighbours, Center Moriches at 1.5 miles and East Moriches at 3.5 miles, and all three names get used loosely in conversation. That matters here for one practical reason, which is the address you type. ZIP 11955 is the one this page is built around. If your drummer is the one taking delivery and lives under a different one of the three similar names, the order needs that ZIP and not yours. Nothing else shifts. The price per button, the five sizes and the way artwork is handled are identical across every address in Suffolk County we work with. It is only the label that has to be right, and it is worth a second look before you submit, because browser autofill is happy to hand you whichever of the lookalike names it stored last.

## What the five sizes actually do on a merch table

There are five round sizes and nothing else. The 1.5 inch button is $1.89 each. It is the one that reads as a giveaway: a logo, a single word, a face, a shape. Anything finer than that will close up at an inch and a half, so treat it as a badge rather than a poster. The 1 inch is the smallest at $1.49 each, and the 1.25 inch sits just above it at $1.69.

The 2.25 inch button is $1.99 each. Ten cents more buys a meaningful amount of room, and it is the size most bands settle on, because a name and a short tagline both fit without crowding, and the image still reads from across a table.

The 3 inch button is $2.49 each. This is the one you use when the artwork is the point: a record cover, an illustration, a full piece of show art. It carries the most detail of the three, and it is also the one people notice on a jacket from further away.

Mixing sizes on a single order is normal. Plenty of acts run the 1.5 inch as the thing they hand out and the 3 inch as the thing they sell, and both live on the same order.

## Getting artwork into a circle without losing half of it

You upload the art and it prints in full colour. The part that catches people out is the shape. A square image has corners, and a circle does not, so anything parked near a corner is going to disappear. Keep the logo, the name and any text inside a comfortable middle area, and let the background run past the edge rather than stopping short of it.

Text is the other thing to check. A line that looks fine on a laptop screen can be unreadable once it sits in a one and a half inch circle, so look at it at the size you are actually ordering. If a line has to be small, the 3 inch is the size that will carry it. One design across a whole order is the simplest route, but it is not required: separate designs go on separate line items, each at the rate table for its size.

## The distance, and the one decision it affects

Moriches sits 30.5 miles east of the shop in a straight line. That number changes precisely one thing for you, which is whether you have the order shipped or come and collect it. Collecting costs nothing. Shipping is a flat charge set by the total number of buttons on the order, not by weight, not by how many separate designs you put on it, and not by where in the county it is going.

## An order costed all the way through

Say you are ordering 101 of the 3 inch button for a run of shows. At $1.99 each, the 100 to 249 rate for that size, that is $200.99 in buttons. An order of that size falls into the $14.99 flat shipping tier, so the order comes to $215.98 before tax.

The tiers go by total buttons: up to 100 is $9.99, up to 250 is $14.99, up to 500 is $19.99, and up to 1000 is $24.99.

Look at that 101 again. The buttons themselves cost $2.49 each in the 1 to 99 band you like, so the extra button adds $2.49 and nothing more. What it also does is push the order over the 100 button line and into the next shipping tier. Ordering 100 instead of 101 keeps you in the $9.99 tier and saves $5.00 on postage. This cuts the other way too: if you were planning on 95, the jump to 100 takes every button to $1.99 and the postage stays in the same band, so the larger order is the cheaper one. The three discounts are 20, 25 and 30 percent, each earned by one size's own count. The only number that steps is the shipping tier, so the useful habit is to check where your total lands against 100, 250, 500 and 1000 before you submit.

## Four situations we hear about

You are a solo act sharing a bill with two other people. You want your own name on something small and cheap to hand out, and you do not want to be carrying a box. The 1.5 inch at $1.51 is that, and a hundred of them is a flat shipping charge of $9.99.

You have a new record out and the cover is the best thing you own. Put it on the 3 inch. It is the size that holds detail, it is the one that reads as an object rather than a freebie, and it sits naturally next to the record it came from.

You are the person who runs the table and does not play. You are the one who cares that the total is predictable. The per button rate steps down at 100, 250 and 500 of a single size. There is no per design charge and no weight based surprise at the end.

You play across Suffolk County with a rotating lineup and the artwork keeps changing. Run several designs on one order. Everything is priced per button at the same rate regardless of how the designs are split, and the shipping tier is calculated from the combined total, which is usually the cheaper way to place it than splitting into several small orders.

## Questions people from around here ask

**We are a two piece from Moriches and we want the same design in all five sizes. Can that go on one order?** Yes. Each size is its own line at its own rate, on its own count, $1.49, $1.69, $1.89, $1.99 and $2.49, and the shipping tier is worked out from the combined button count across all three.

**Our order is 101 of the 3 inch for a Moriches show. What is the actual total?** $200.99 for the buttons, plus $14.99 flat shipping, which is $215.98 before tax.

**Does a bigger Moriches order bring the price per button down?**

No. The gap between them is real: 20 pays the listed rate while 2000 of one size needs a quote. One ladder is counted inside a size and the other across the whole order, which is why they do not step together.

**Our mail goes to a Moriches ZIP but our guitarist takes deliveries at his place. Which address goes on the order?** Whichever one somebody will actually be at. Use that ZIP exactly, since several addresses nearby carry very similar names and an autofilled guess is easy to miss on the confirmation screen.

**Is it better for a band in Moriches to have buttons shipped or to collect them?** Collecting costs nothing at all, so if someone is making that trip anyway, it takes the shipping charge off the order entirely. If nobody is, shipping is a single flat figure from the tier table, and for most band sized orders that is $9.99 or $14.99.