Custom Pin-Back Buttons for Wyandanch, New York

Wyandanch and Wheatley Heights sit closer together than almost any other pair of places we cover, with Deer Park, North Babylon, East Farmingdale and Melville ringed a little further out. Straight line, Wheatley Heights is 0.9 miles off. That is an unusually tight gap, and it shows up in the button orders that come from this part of Suffolk County: a single roster often pulls families from both sides of the line, so one order tends to cover a group that a map would call two separate places.

A 0.9 mile gap changes how an order gets planned

When the nearest neighbouring community is under a mile away, the people organising a team order stop thinking in terms of separate batches. The parents handing out buttons at a field are usually handing them to the same circle of families whether the address on the form says one place or the other. Deer Park at 2.4 miles, North Babylon at 2.5, East Farmingdale at 2.9 and Melville at 3.1 are all within the same short reach, which means a travel roster drawn from across that cluster is still, for ordering purposes, one group with one artwork file and one quantity.

The practical consequence is simple. Count every button the whole group needs, place it as one order, and let the quantity sit where it sits. Splitting a run across separate orders splits the count that earns the discount, which is the new reason to keep it together.

Five sizes, and nothing else to choose between

We make round pin-back buttons in five diameters: 1.5 inch, 2.25 inch and

The 3 inch. That is the entire range. Every one is printed in full colour from artwork you upload, so a team crest, a player photo, a jersey number or a block of text all reproduce the same way.

The 1.5 inch is the size that reads as a lapel pin on a jacket or a bag strap. The 2.25 inch is the one most supporter designs are built around, because it holds a crest and a name without either one shrinking. The 3 inch is the large format, where a photograph of a player still has room to be a photograph rather than a thumbnail.

Four price bands, and where they break

This is worth stating plainly, because it is the opposite of what most people expect. The thresholds are 100, 250 and 500 of one size, and they are the only places the rate moves.

• 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

Ten prices itself at the listed rate, and a thousand of one size goes to a quote instead of an automatic price. There is a discount schedule and it is printed, which is a different thing from a rate you have to ask for. If you are budgeting for a season, you can multiply and stop. The only part of the total that steps is the flat shipping charge, and that is set by the total number of buttons on the order, not by what you paid for them.

A 240 button order, worked all the way through

Take a full supporter run at the middle size. 240 of the 2.25 inch button at $1.59 each, the rate for 100 to 249 of a single size, is $381.60 in buttons. Flat shipping for an order that size is $14.99, so the order comes to $396.59 before tax.

Nothing in that arithmetic hides a discount or a surcharge. The button line is simply the count times the rate, and the shipping line is a single flat figure.

Where the shipping lines actually fall

Shipping is charged as a flat amount, banded by the 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

The 240 button order above is a good illustration of why the count is worth checking before you submit. It sits just under the 250 mark, so it pays $14.99. Push the same order past 250 and it moves into the next band at $19.99. Going the other way, if your count lands a little under a band ceiling, adding the extra buttons up to that ceiling costs you the per button rate and nothing more in shipping, because the shipping figure does not move until the band does. That is not a discount, it is just where the flat charge changes.

Sending the artwork, and what we do with it

Buttons are printed from the file you supply, in full colour, with no separate setup charge layered on top of the per button rate. A crest with a solid background, a cut out photograph, a hand drawn design a sibling made: all of them print. If you are running more than one design across the same order, say a different player number on each button, the order is still counted as a single quantity for the shipping band. That is the number that matters.

Collecting instead of shipping

Local pickup is free, and it takes the shipping line off the order entirely. For a group organising from Wyandanch, that is a real option worth weighing against the flat band, particularly on a smaller count where the shipping charge is a larger share of the total. If you would rather it came to you, the flat band applies as listed above. The shop is 9.2 miles north of here in a straight line.

Four people who usually end up placing the order

The team parent running the group chat. You are the one with the actual head count, and you are the one who will be asked for spares. Order honestly and check the boundaries once. Those two steps are the whole of the decision.

The booster club treasurer. You need a number you can put in a spreadsheet and defend at a meeting. Each size climbs its own ladder, and 100 is the first rung. There is no invoice line that will surprise you afterwards.

The coach who wants one design for the whole squad. A single crest, a single size, one quantity covering players, siblings and grandparents. This is the simplest order we take, and the pricing is the same as it would be for the most complicated one.

The parent who wants a button per player with that player's own photo. Multiple designs across one order do not change the per button price and do not split the shipping band. You are still placing one order with one total.

Questions we are asked

Does the price per button drop if a Wyandanch team orders a larger quantity?

Yes, as long as the count is for one size. The ladder is per size: 1 to 99, 100 to 249, 250 to 499 and 500 to 999, with the best online rate in the last of those. A hundred of a size earns 20 percent, and the saving applies to all hundred. The figure listed is what 1 to 99 of that size costs each. The rate is counted inside a single size and the shipping tier is counted across all of them.

Our roster pulls from both Wyandanch and Wheatley Heights. Should that be two separate orders?

There is no pricing reason to split it. Splitting one size across several designs costs nothing, because the designs are added together for the discount. Place it as a single order for the combined count and hand the buttons out afterwards.

What does shipping cost on 240 buttons going to Wyandanch?

$14.99. That count sits inside the band that runs up to 250 buttons. With 240 of the 2.25 inch at $1.59 each, the rate for 100 to 249 of a single size, the buttons come to $381.60 and the order total is $396.59 before tax.

Can a Wyandanch team collect the order rather than have it shipped?

Yes. Local pickup is free and no shipping band is applied to the order at all, so the total is simply the button count times the per button rate.

Which of the five sizes suits a Wyandanch supporter button with a player photo on it?

The 3 inch at $2.49 each gives a photograph the most room, and the 2.25 inch at $1.99 each still carries a face alongside a name or a number. The 1.5 inch at $1.89 each is better suited to a crest or a short piece of text than to a photograph, simply because of how much area there is to work with.