Project record
Six hundred pins, and the whole decision was about glitter
The largest softball order in the library at 600 pins. The customer went back and forth on glitter, so we rendered it both ways before she committed.
Satellite Beach · FL · Space Coast
- Quantity
- 600 pins
- Size
- 2.5"
- Pin type
- Standard pins
- Process
- Soft enamel
The brief
Six hundred two-and-a-half inch pins, and the only thing holding the order up was whether they should have glitter.
How the design got made
- Beat 1
Arrived through the quote form with the size already chosen: 2.5 inch
- Beat 2
Priced the same day at 600 quantity
- Beat 3
Customer hesitated on glitter and said so plainly
- Beat 4
Rather than push, the rep offered to have the artist render it both ways at $0.10 per colour
- Beat 5
Purchase order raised two days later
The full account
The largest softball order on file
Six hundred pins at two and a half inches. The enquiry arrived through the quote form with the size already decided, and the price came back the same morning: $2.35 a pin at that quantity.
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.
Then it stalled — not on price, and not on the artwork.
"I feel it might look better without?"
The customer was weighing glitter, and she said so:
"I was going back and forth about glitter, but I feel it might look better without?"
Note the question mark. She was not telling us her decision; she was thinking out loud and inviting a second opinion on a design she was about to buy six hundred of.
The reply did not argue for the upsell:
"We can have artist add glitter so you can see it both ways. Each glitter would be $0.10 per glitter color."
quoted for this order only — quoted for that order only.
Both ways. Ten cents a colour. Look at it and decide.
Two days later the purchase order was raised.
Why this one is here
It is the clearest example in the library of the proof process being used to decide rather than to fix. Nothing was wrong with the design. The customer simply wanted to see the alternative before spending on six hundred units, and the fastest way to settle it was to draw it.
The thread does not record which version she finally approved, so this page does not claim one. What it does record is how the question got answered — by rendering it, not by arguing about it.
Specification
| Team | Beachside Sirens |
|---|---|
| Sport | Softball |
| Quantity | 600 |
| Size | 2.5" |
| Fill | soft enamel |
| Pin type | Standard pins |
| Banner included | No |
| City | Satellite Beach |
| State | FL |
| County | Brevard County |
| Region | Space Coast |
| Inquiry | 2026-05-18T07:02 |
What this price was quoted under
- $2.35 / pin2.5" · 600 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
- May 18, 2026
- For quantity
- 600 pins
- At size
- 2.5"
- Build
- 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
“I was going back and forth about glitter, but I feel it might look better without?”
Customer, Beachside Sirens · 2026-05-20 · on deciding on the finish
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
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
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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