Project record
Half an inch smaller, forty percent cheaper, same pin.
A 200-pin order where dropping from 2 inch to 1.5 inch took the price from $2.60 a pin to $1.50 — with the glitter thrown in.
- Quantity
- 200 pins
- Size
- 1.5"
- Pin type
- Standard pins
- Process
- Die struck UV printed
The brief
Two hundred pins is a small order. Dropping half an inch made it a third cheaper.
How the design got made
- Beat 1
Customer came in wanting 200 pins and wanted the quote checked: 'I think you quoted me on 200 pins'
- Beat 2
At 2 inch with one glitter colour, 200 pins priced at $2.60 each
- Beat 3
At 1.5 inch the same 200 pins came to $1.50 each - $300 the order
- Beat 4
The rep gave the glitter colour free at that size rather than adding twelve cents
- Beat 5 · pivot
Design carries rotated roster numbers
- Beat 6
Ordered two days after the first quote, with a hard mid-May delivery
The full account
Two hundred pins is a real order
Not every team needs a thousand pins. This one needed two hundred, and wanted to be sure the quote matched:
"I think you quoted me on 200 pins"
It did. The useful part is what happened next.
The size lever
At 2 inch with one glitter colour, 200 pins came to $2.60 each.
Price shown is what this order was quoted at, for this quantity, size and specification, on this date. It is not a current price list.
At 1.5 inch, the same 200 pins came to $1.50 each — $300 for the order — and the glitter colour came free rather than at the usual twelve cents:
quoted for this order only — quoted for that order only.
"qty 200 1.5" die struck with 1 glitter color are We can do it for $1.50 per pin total=$300 that is giving you the glitter for free"
quoted for this order only — quoted for that order only.
Same design, same finish, half an inch smaller, and the bill fell by more than forty percent.
This is the lever most small orders have and most do not know about. Quantity breaks are real but they need volume to reach. Size costs money immediately, at any quantity, because it is metal and enamel and mould area. On a 200-piece order you cannot buy your way down the quantity ladder — but you can choose a smaller pin.
What it is made of
This one is not enamel-filled. It is die-struck iron, nickel plated, with the colour applied by UV printing, carrying rotated roster numbers.
UV printing suits a design with fine detail or photographic elements that enamel cannot hold — and at 1.5 inch, where enamel wells would be very small, it keeps the artwork legible.
The customer's own summary
"1.5 inch • 200 pins • $312 • free shipping."
quoted for this order only — quoted for that order only.
Quoted on a Sunday, ordered by Tuesday, with a hard mid-May delivery and freight flagged as unable to be late.
Why this one is here
Because the question "how do I make this cheaper" usually gets answered with "order more," and for a team of twelve that is not an answer. Here it got answered honestly: order smaller.
Specification
| Team | Birmingham Giants |
|---|---|
| Sport | Baseball |
| Quantity | 200 |
| Size | 1.5" |
| Process | die struck |
| Fill | UV printed |
| Pin type | Standard pins |
| Finish options | 1 glitter colour |
| Banner included | No |
| Inquiry | 2026-04-26 |
What this price was quoted under
- $1.50 / pin1.5" · 200 pins
Price shown is what this order was quoted at, for this quantity, size and specification, on this date. It is not a current price list.
- Quoted on
- April 26, 2026
- For quantity
- 200 pins
- At size
- 1.5"
- Build
- die struck UV printed
- Finishes
- 1 glitter colour
- Excludes
- delivery charge, rush fee, import tariff
The banner threshold
This order sat under the threshold, so no banner was included. At the time the line fell at 1,000 pins at 2.0 inches or larger: the size step cost $0.20 more per pin — $1.07 to $1.27 — and brought a free 3ft × 6ft banner plus 100 bonus gold-metal or blackout pins with it.
Worth checking before you commit to a quantity: the bigger pin is frequently the cheaper total order.
quoted for this order onlyAbout the prices on this page
Every figure here is taken from a real quote for a real order. That is the point of it — and also the reason it will not match what you are quoted.
- Quantity moves the price more than anything else
- Size and build are priced separately
- Turnaround changes the total
- Import tariffs apply and are disclosed on the quote
- These are historical
What the customer said
“1.5 inch • 200 pins • $312 • free shipping.”
Customer, Birmingham Giants · 2026-04-26 · on the customer restating the deal back to confirm it
Questions this order answers
Two inches or larger is the working floor for tournament trading — smaller pins get passed over. Sizes run from 2 inches up to 6.
One little league's four orders across three years show the migration in practice: they started at 1.25 inches and moved to 2.0. Larger sizes also unlock the banner threshold, which is why the bigger pin often costs less in total.
Sourced — Sizing guidance across multiple orders; Northern Virginia little league, 2022–2026
Glitter is a finish, so it applies to any pin type — standard, spinner or slider alike. It is mixed into the enamel of a chosen colour rather than applied on top, so it will not rub off.
It is specified per colour: one glitter colour, or several. Commonly it lands on a single accent area — the shape of a state, a star, a puck. A 1,500-pin association order ran one glitter colour across the whole run; another design used gold glitter only on the state-shaped element.
Sourced — Multiple 2025–26 orders
Tell us the in-hands date first, before anything else. Rush orders are possible and we've protected tight dates by escalating directly with the factory mid-production.
It costs more, and the fastest shipping is also the tariff-exposed shipping. Three weeks out means a $40 delivery charge plus a $75 rush fee.
Sourced — Brainerd AHA rush, November–December 2025
No. Every figure in this library is what one team was quoted for one order, on the day they asked. It is published as a record, not as a price list.
Quantity and size move it most: the break runs about $0.20 per pin for every hundred pins, and the range here goes from a 1,500-pin corporate run at 1.25 inch to a 3 inch dangler with glitter. Pin type and finish are priced per pin on top of that — a spinner was $0.65 more per pin on one order, glitter is $0.10 per pin per glitter colour.
Timing is separate again. Six weeks ahead of your date carries no delivery or rush charge; four weeks adds a $40 delivery charge; three weeks adds $40 plus a $75 rush fee. The pins are manufactured in China and are subject to US import tariffs, disclosed on the quote rather than at invoice.
For a price that applies to your order, send your quantity, size and in-hands date and we will quote it.
Sourced — Quoted ladders and fee schedule across the AP Pope, Corona Avengers and Brainerd AHA threads, 2025–2026
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