Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Selden, NY 11784

$714.99 before tax: that is the whole of it. Five hundred of the 2.25 inch button at $1.39 each, the 500 to 999 rate, 30 percent off, comes to $695.00 in buttons, and flat shipping for an order of that size is $19.99. Nothing else joins the sum. What the $695.00 buys is 500 identical round buttons, printed in full colour from artwork you upload, each one 2.25 inches across with a pin back. What the $19.99 buys is the shipping tier that an order of 500 buttons falls into. Two lines, one total, both of them flat figures rather than estimates that drift once the order is placed.

Reading the five sizes as five fixed numbers

There are five buttons and no others: 1 inch at $1.49 each, 1.25 inch at $1.69 each, 1.5 inch at $1.89 each, 2.25 inch at $1.99 each, and 3 inch at $2.49 each. The word to hold onto is each. A size reaching 100 moves every button of that size onto the lower rate. It is $1.59 on the two hundredth 2.25 inch button and $1.59 on the two hundred and fortieth, and the same logic applies to the other four sizes. Nothing is hidden, so there is nothing to hunt for. There are three thresholds and they are printed above.

That makes the size decision a straightforward one, because it is only a decision about the button itself. The 1.5 inch sits in the middle of the range face. The 3 inch gives the most room for a photo, a number or a long name. The 2.25 inch sits between them, which is why the worked example uses it. Pick by what has to fit, then multiply.

The shipping tier is the only moving part

Shipping is flat, charged in four steps by the total number of buttons on the order. Up to 100 buttons is $9.99. Up to 250 is $14.99. Up to 500 is $19.99. Up to 1000 is $24.99. The shipping tier and the rate band both behave in jumps rather than gradually, and they are counted from different totals: the tier from every button on the order, the band from one size at a time.

The worked example is worth staring at for a second, because 500 buttons sits exactly on the ceiling of the $19.99 step. One more button, the five hundred and first, carries the entire order into the $24.99 step. That is five dollars of shipping attached to a single extra button, which is worth knowing before somebody asks for a handful of spares.

The same fact read from the other direction is more useful. An order of 260 buttons and an order of 500 buttons pay the identical $19.99, because both land inside the same step. If you are somewhere in that range and you genuinely want spares, the shipping line will not notice. The buttons themselves still cost $1.99 apiece, so spares are not free, but they do not drag the shipping up with them.

Five neighbours and none of them far

Centereach is 2.0 miles away. Farmingville is 2.2 miles. Coram is 2.2 miles. Terryville is 2.7 miles. Port Jefferson Station is 3.7 miles. Those are the five nearest places this site also covers, and the furthest of them is under four miles out. That compactness is the practical fact behind most of the orders that come from this ZIP code.

It matters because a roster or a supporter list rarely respects a ZIP boundary. Half the families on a sheet might have a Selden address and the rest might be spread across those five neighbours, all of them close enough that the buttons do not need splitting into separate orders to reach separate places. One order, one shipping charge, one box, and the handing out happens wherever the group already meets. Splitting the same 500 buttons into several smaller orders would only mean paying a shipping tier more than once.

Where this sits on the map

Measured in a straight line, the distance from the shop to Selden is 18.3 miles, running east. That is a map measurement, not a route and not a time, and it has no bearing on what the order costs. Shipping is priced by how many buttons are on the order and nothing else. The address sits in the township of Brookhaven, in Suffolk County, under ZIP code 11784.

Artwork, and what fits on a round face

Every button is printed in full colour from a file you supply, so the design is entirely yours. For supporter buttons the pattern is usually simple: team colours, a mascot or logo, sometimes a player number, sometimes a surname. A 1.5 inch face carries a logo well and a name less comfortably, while a 3 inch face will take a photograph and still leave room for text around it. If one design is being repeated across a whole group, decide early which of the five sizes it was drawn for, since the same artwork does not always sit the same way on a smaller circle.

The parent who ended up organising it

You did not volunteer so much as fail to step back quickly enough. What you need is a number you can send to everyone in one message without caveats. That number is $1.99 a button for the 2.25 inch in the 1 to 99 band, plus one shipping charge on the order as a whole. You can divide the button cost by the number of families without anything shifting underneath you later.

The coach placing one order for the season

One design, one size, one order. The only quantity worth inflating is one sitting just under 100, 250 or 500 of a size, and then only because the bigger order is cheaper. Work out what the group needs, then check which tier it lands in.

The booster group collecting money first

If cash is coming in before the order goes out, the arithmetic runs in the same direction either way. One rate per size per band, and every size uses the same band boundaries. The only figure that is not per piece is the shipping tier, so decide how that is being absorbed before you start collecting rather than after.

The family buying a small handful

A small order behaves exactly like a large one. The per button price is the same $1.49, $1.69, $1.89, $1.99 or $2.49, and the shipping step for an order under 100 buttons is $9.99. Nothing about a short run is priced differently.

Questions that come up

If our Selden order is 500 buttons and someone asks for a few extras, what changes? The order total does not set the rate. A single size's count does. The shipping does. An order of 500 is at the top of the $19.99 step, so button 501 moves the order into the $24.99 step.

Our Selden group needs 260 buttons. Are we paying more to ship than a 250 button order? Yes, $19.99 instead of $14.99, because 260 crosses out of the up to 250 step. If you are only slightly over, it is worth knowing that the same $19.99 would cover anything up to 500.

Can families in Centereach and Farmingville be included on one Selden order? Yes. It is one order going to one address, with one shipping charge, and the buttons are distributed from there. Those places are 2.0 and 2.2 miles out, so a group drawn from across them is still a single order.

If a Selden order mixes 1.5 inch and 3 inch buttons, how is it priced? Each size is charged at its own rate, chosen by how many of it you order, $1.89 and $2.49 per button respectively. For shipping, the tier is set by the total number of buttons on the order, regardless of which sizes make up that total.

Would a Selden order of 1000 buttons get a lower price per button than 500? It does. 500 of one size pays 30 percent under the listed rate, and 1000 of one size is a quote rather than an automatic price. The gap between them is real: 500 pays 30 percent under the listed rate while 1000 of one size needs a quote. The only difference is the shipping step, which is $24.99 for up to 1000 rather than $19.99 for up to 500.