Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Wheatley Heights, New York

Ordering from this far out starts with one honest decision, and it is worth making it before you think about sizes or artwork: do you want to come and collect the buttons in person, or do you want them shipped to you? Both work. Neither is the default. The answer for anyone in Wheatley Heights usually comes down to whether the trip fits something you were already going to do, and that is a question only you can answer. What follows is everything you need to make the call with real numbers rather than a guess.

Being sat right next to Wyandanch

The thing that makes this corner of the Babylon township unusual on our map is how close the next covered place sits. Wyandanch is 0.9 miles away. That is closer than most people's supermarket. Melville is 2.3 miles, Deer Park 2.6 miles, East Farmingdale 3.1 miles and North Babylon 3.3 miles, so within a very short radius you have five other places we cover.

That matters for one practical reason: shared orders. If you are splitting a button run with someone in Wyandanch, the difference between you and them is under a mile, which is almost always less than the trip either of you would make to the shop. One person places one order, one shipping charge is paid, and you divide the box yourselves. Everything below about shipping tiers is worth reading with that in mind, because a shared order and a solo order hit those tiers very differently.

The straight line, and what it decides

Wheatley Heights sits 8.3 miles south of the shop in a straight line. That is a real distance, not a rounding error, and it is the reason the collect-or-ship question is a genuine one here rather than a formality. Note that this is straight line distance, measured on a map. Roads do not run in straight lines and we make no claim about what the trip is like.

Use the figure the way it is useful: as a rough sense of whether the shop is on your side of the county or the other one. Suffolk County is wide, and 8.3 miles in this direction puts you well inside the range where people do sometimes collect, and well inside the range where people sometimes decide that paying flat shipping is simply easier. Both are reasonable. We do not push either one.

Five sizes, counted separately for the discount

We make round pin-back buttons in five sizes and nothing else:

• The 1 inch $1.49 each
• The 1.25 inch $1.69 each
• The 1.5 inch $1.89 each
• The 2.25 inch $1.99 each
• The 3 inch $2.49 each

Sizes are priced separately, so it is a hundred of one size that earns the break. They are the price for one button and they are the price for the thousandth button on the same order. The listed rate holds from one button up to ninety-nine of that size. If someone tells you to pad an order out to reach a better rate, that advice does not apply here, because there is no better rate to reach. Order the number you actually want.

Everything is full colour and printed from artwork you upload. The size you pick is mostly a design decision: 1 inch and 1.25 inch read as lapel pins, 1.5 inch reads as a single bold mark, 2.25 inch is the size most people picture when they picture a button, and 3 inch gives you room for something with detail in it.

Where the numbers actually move

Quantity moves two figures, and the two are counted differently: the rate per size, the shipping across every size. The tiers go by total buttons on the order:

• up to 100 buttons $9.99
• up to 250 buttons $14.99
• up to 500 buttons $19.99
• up to 1000 buttons $24.99

A worked example. Seventy five of the 3 inch button at $2.49 each is $186.75 in buttons. That order sits inside the first tier, so shipping is $9.99, and the order comes to $196.74 before tax.

Look at what that tells you. Going from 75 buttons to 100 buttons costs you nothing extra in shipping at all, because both sit in the same tier. Going from 100 to 101 adds $5.00, because 101 lands in the next one. Two designs at the same size count as one quantity for the discount. So if you find yourself landing a few buttons over a boundary, that is the one place on the whole order where the exact number is worth a second look. Not because the buttons get cheaper, they do not, but because the shipping step is a step and not a slope.

Sizes mix freely inside a tier. Thirty of the 1.5 inch, forty of the 2.25 inch and thirty of the 3 inch is one hundred buttons, which is one tier, one shipping charge.

Selling them at a merch table

Most of what we print at this end of Suffolk County for small acts is the same shape of order, so here is how it tends to land depending on who you are.

If you are one person with one logo, you probably want a single size and a single design. Pick the size on how the artwork reads at arm's length on a table, because the gap between the sizes is small at every band.

If you are a band with a few different designs, remember the tier counts buttons, not designs. Four designs at 25 each is one hundred buttons and one shipping charge. Splitting that across four separate orders would mean four shipping charges for the same number of buttons.

If you are the person holding the merch box for someone else's act, place the order in your own name and settle up afterwards. It keeps one contact on one order, and it keeps the shipping charge singular.

If you are putting together a bill with several acts on it, each act can have its own design on the same order. One order, one tier, one box, divided at your end.

Questions people ask us

Does ordering more buttons make them cheaper per button in Wheatley Heights? No. Four bands per size, with the boundaries at 100, 250, 500 and 1,000. The 1 inch is $1.49 each, 1.25 inch is $1.69 each, 1.5 inch is $1.89 each, 2.25 inch is $1.99 each and 3 inch is $2.49 each, across the whole 1 to 99 band. The discount comes off the per button figure first, then multiplies by the count.

What would 75 of the 3 inch buttons cost shipped to Wheatley Heights? $186.75 in buttons, plus $9.99 flat shipping for an order that size, which is $196.74 before tax.

My band splits merch with a group in Wyandanch. Can someone in Wheatley Heights place one order and divide it? Yes. Put it in as one order under one name and split the box between you. Wyandanch is 0.9 miles away, so handing over the other half is a shorter trip than either of you would make to the shop, and you pay one shipping charge instead of two.

I need about 105 buttons for a Wheatley Heights order. Is that number worth reconsidering? Possibly, for one reason only. Up to 100 buttons ships at $9.99 and 101 or more moves into the $14.99 tier. The buttons cost the same each either way, so 105 is fine if you need 105. If the 5 was arbitrary, 100 saves you $5.00 in shipping.

Can I mix all five sizes on a single Wheatley Heights order? Yes, and the shipping tier is worked out on the total number of buttons regardless of which sizes they are. Fifty of the 2.25 inch and fifty of the 3 inch is one hundred buttons, so it sits in the $9.99 tier exactly like one hundred of a single size would.