Project record
224 spinner pins for an East Tennessee event called The Possum Chase
A volunteer community club ordered 224 spinner pins with a glitter finish for its annual event — a keepsake, not a trading pin.
Corryton · TN · East TennesseeThe Possum Chase confirmed
- Quantity
- 224 pins
- Size
- 1.5"
- Pin type
- Spinner pins
The brief
A community club in East Tennessee ordered 224 spinner pins for an event called The Possum Chase.
How the design got made
- Beat 1
A volunteer-run community club, not a company and not a team
- Beat 2
224 pins — small enough that per-pin price sits at the top of the range
- Beat 3
Spinner construction with a glitter finish, on a 1.5 inch pin
- Beat 4
Named event, but a community event rather than a sports tournament
- Beat 5
Long thread with heavy discussion of tariff and freight options
The full account
An event pin that isn't a sports pin
Corryton is a small community north-east of Knoxville. The club there runs an event called The Possum Chase, and this order is 224 pins to mark it.
That sounds like the sports orders in this collection, and it isn't. There's a named event and a commemorative pin, but there's no team, no roster, no age group, and — crucially — no trading. Nobody is standing at a table swapping these. They go home in a pocket.
What that changes
It changes the size. An inch and a half, comfortably under the two-inch floor we recommend for tournament trading, because trading isn't the job.
It doesn't change the construction. This is a spinner pin with a glitter finish — the centre rotates on a rivet. Spinners cost more per pin because they're more metal and more assembly, and a community club chose to spend it on 224 pieces rather than order more of something plainer.
That's a reasonable read of the situation. When a pin is a keepsake rather than currency, the person holding it keeps it for years. Movement and texture earn their keep differently than they do at a trading table.
The small-run reality
224 pins puts this at the top of the per-pin range — between $2.25 and $2.50. The tooling cost spreads across a small number of pieces, and there's no getting around that arithmetic.
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.
For an annual event, though, the die exists after the first year. A reorder of the same design skips the mould charge entirely.
Specification
| Team | Corryton Community Club |
|---|---|
| Quantity | 224 |
| Size | 1.5" |
| Pin type | Spinner pins |
| Finish options | glitter |
| Banner included | No |
| Event | The Possum Chase |
| Event confirmed | Yes |
| City | Corryton |
| State | TN |
| County | Knox County |
| Region | East Tennessee |
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
Questions this order answers
A spinner pin is a construction type, not an accessory. An element of the design — usually a round logo, a puck or a ball — is mounted on a rivet so it rotates in place. It reads as a fidget as much as a badge, which is exactly why players trade for them.
Because it changes how the pin is built, it carries its own per-pin price. On a 2.5-inch soft enamel order at 250 pieces the quote was $3.44 per pin standard against $4.09 per pin as a spinner. That team chose standard construction and spent the difference on putting every player's number on the pin instead.
Sourced — Philadelphia 13U AA order, December 2025
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
Runs of 100 are made. Per-pin price is higher because the one-time mould cost spreads across fewer pins, so most teams find the value improves sharply between 100 and 300.
Sourced — 100-pin single-player order, 2026
The pins are manufactured in China and are subject to US import tariffs. This is disclosed on every quote rather than surfacing at invoice.
Shipping method changes the exposure: the fastest air options are tariff-subject, while a roughly two-week freight-forwarding route avoids the tariff entirely. On a deadline with room in it, the slower route is usually the cheaper one.
Sourced — Shipping options quoted, October 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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