Project record
Packing written into the purchase order.
A hundred pins, individually wrapped, with damage-prevention instructions on the order itself.
Brampton
- Quantity
- 100 pins
- Size
- 1.5"
- Pin type
- Standard pins
- Process
- Die struck soft enamel
The brief
A hundred pins, individually wrapped, with packing instructions written into the order.
How the design got made
- Beat 1
100 pins at 1.5 inch, die struck soft enamel on dyed black metal
- Beat 2
Red glitter against PMS 420C, white and 485C
- Beat 3
Individually wrapped rather than bagged loose
- Beat 4
Packing instruction written into the purchase order itself: protect the pins in the box so none are damaged
- Beat 5
Arrived as a paid-search enquiry
The full account
The instruction
Most purchase orders specify the pin. This one specified the packing, in capitals:
MAKE SURE PINS ARE PROTECTED FOR SHIPPING IN BOX SO AS TO NOT DAMAGE ANY
Along with individual wrapping rather than pins bagged loose together.
Why that matters more on a small order
On a hundred-piece run, every damaged pin is one percent of the order.
Pins shipped loose move against each other for the whole journey. Enamel is durable but plating scuffs, and a pin with a scratch across the face is not one you want to hand a nine-year-old to trade. On a thousand-piece order a handful of scuffed pins is absorbed. On a hundred, it is noticeable.
Individual wrapping costs very little and is not always the default. It is worth asking for, particularly on a small run and particularly where the pins are going straight to a customer rather than through a warehouse.
The pin
One and a half inch, die struck soft enamel on dyed black metal — a darker base that makes bright colours sit forward.
Palette: PMS 420C, white, 485C, with red glitter. Three colours and a glitter is restrained for a trading pin, and at 1.5 inch restraint is what keeps it readable.
Where it came from
A paid search enquiry — one of a small number in this library that can be traced to an ad rather than to word of mouth.
Why this one is here
For the packing note. It is the least glamorous thing anyone has ever specified on a pin order and one of the more useful, because the pin you designed and the pin that arrives are only the same object if it survives the box.
Specification
| Team | Brampton Challengers |
|---|---|
| Sport | Baseball |
| Quantity | 100 |
| Size | 1.5" |
| Process | die struck |
| Fill | soft enamel |
| Pin type | Standard pins |
| Finish options | red glitter |
| Banner included | No |
| City | Brampton |
| Inquiry | 2024-10-30 |
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
“MAKE SURE PINS ARE PROTECTED FOR SHIPPING IN BOX SO AS TO NOT DAMAGE ANY”
Customer, Brampton Challengers · 2024-11-04 · on packing written into the purchase order
Questions this order answers
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
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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