Project record
Fifty pins: $4.45 each. A hundred: $2.78.
The clearest small-quantity ladder in the library, and it shows exactly where the curve stops being worth chasing.
Massena · NY
- Quantity
- 100 pins
- Size
- 1.5"
- Pin type
- Standard pins
- Process
- Die struck soft enamel
The brief
Fifty pins cost $4.45 each. A hundred cost $2.78. The pins did not change.
How the design got made
- Beat 1
Girls' hockey team, 1.5 inch die struck soft enamel
- Beat 2
Quoted across three small quantities so the shape of the curve was visible
- Beat 3
50 pins: $4.45 each
- Beat 4
100 pins: $2.78 each - a 38% drop for doubling
- Beat 5
200 pins: $2.26 each - only another 19% for doubling again
- Beat 6
Ordered 100, with rubber backs on two clutches
The full account
The ladder, in full
Quoted for a 1.5 inch die struck soft enamel pin:
| Quantity | Per pin | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 50 | $4.45 | — |
| 100 | $2.78 | −38% |
| 200 | $2.26 | −19% |
Where the curve bends
Look at the two drops. Doubling from 50 to 100 takes 38% off the unit price. Doubling again, from 100 to 200, takes only 19%.
That is the shape of every pin order, and it is worth understanding before deciding how many to buy.
At fifty pins you are not really buying pins. You are buying a mould, a set-up, a shipment and a customs entry, with fifty pieces of metal attached — and those fixed costs are divided by a very small number. At a hundred they're divided by twice as many. By two hundred they have mostly stopped mattering, so further doubling only saves you on metal and enamel, which were never the expensive part.
The practical version: if you are considering fifty, look hard at a hundred. If you are considering a hundred, going to two hundred is a much weaker argument unless you actually need them.
This team took the first step and stopped. 100 pins.
The pin
One and a half inch, die struck soft enamel, on two butterfly clutches with rubber backs — the soft grippy kind rather than bare metal. On a girls' youth team's jerseys and bags, rubber backs are the difference between pins staying on and pins being lost by December.
Flagged super super rush and ordered the day after the quote.
Why this one is here
Because "how many should we get" is usually answered with a shrug and a round number. The honest answer is in the percentages above: take the first doubling, think hard about the second.
Specification
| Team | Massena Minor Girls Hockey |
|---|---|
| Sport | Hockey |
| Quantity | 100 |
| Size | 1.5" |
| Process | die struck |
| Fill | soft enamel |
| Pin type | Standard pins |
| Banner included | No |
| City | Massena |
| State | NY |
| Inquiry | 2024-09-30 |
What this price was quoted under
- $2.78 / pin1.5" · 100 pins
- $4.45 / pin1.5" · 50 pins
- $2.26 / 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
- October 2, 2024
- For quantity
- 100 pins
- At size
- 1.5"
- Build
- die struck soft enamel
- 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
“Qty 50 1.5" die struck soft enamel pins are $4.45 per pin / Qty 100 1.5" die struck soft enamel pins are $2.78 per pin / Qty 200 1.5" die struck soft enamel pins are $2.26 per pin”
Customer, Massena Minor Girls Hockey · 2024-10-02 · on the small-quantity ladder in full
Questions this order answers
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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