Project record
Six prices on the table at once
A USSSA 8U team shown two sizes across three quantities side by side — the clearest demonstration of how quantity moves the price.
8UUSSSA confirmed
- Quantity
- 400 pins
- Size
- 2.5"
- Pin type
- Standard pins
- Process
- Die struck soft enamel
The brief
Six prices on the table at once — two sizes across three quantities — and an 8U team picked the middle of the ladder.
How the design got made
- Beat 1
Quoted 2.5 inch and 3 inch side by side, at 300, 400 and 500
- Beat 2
Every step down in quantity cost twenty cents more per pin, at both sizes
- Beat 3
Chose 2.5 inch at 400, the middle rung
- Beat 4
Ordered with one glitter colour, proof V1A
The full account
The whole ladder, up front
Most suppliers give you one price and wait for you to push back. This quote gave the customer everything at once:
| Quantity | 2.5 inch | 3 inch |
|---|---|---|
| 300 | $2.90 | $3.90 |
| 400 | $2.70 | $3.70 |
| 500 | $2.50 | $3.50 |
Read down either column and the pattern is exact: twenty cents a pin for every hundred you add, and it holds at both sizes. Read across and the 3 inch build costs a flat dollar more than the 2.5 inch at every quantity.
There is no negotiation in that table. It is just what the numbers are.
What they chose
The team took the middle rung — 2.5 inch at 400 pins, $2.70 each — with one glitter colour, proof V1A. Ordered six days after the quote went out.
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.
Stepping up from 300 to 400 cost them $2.70 × 400 rather than $2.90 × 300: eighty more pins for two hundred dollars, or $2.50 for each additional pin against a headline price of $2.90. That is usually the right side of the trade for an 8U team that will hand pins out all weekend.
quoted for this order only — quoted for that order only.
Filed under USSSA
This is the first record in the library filed under USSSA as a category in its own right, rather than beneath a sport. That reflects how the work is actually organised — USSSA runs its own tournament circuit across baseball and softball, and teams heading to one behave like a distinct segment with their own timing.
Specification
| Team | Corona Avengers / KAT 8U |
|---|---|
| Sport | Softball |
| Age group | 8U |
| Quantity | 400 |
| Size | 2.5" |
| Process | die struck |
| Fill | soft enamel |
| Pin type | Standard pins |
| Finish options | 1 glitter colour |
| Banner included | No |
| Event | USSSA |
| Event confirmed | Yes |
What this price was quoted under
- $2.70 / pin2.5" · 400 pins
- $2.90 / pin2.5" · 300 pins
- $2.50 / pin2.5" · 500 pins
- $3.90 / pin3.0" · 300 pins
- $3.70 / pin3.0" · 400 pins
- $3.50 / pin3.0" · 500 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 15, 2026
- For quantity
- 400 pins
- At size
- 2.5"
- Build
- die struck soft enamel
- 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
Questions this order answers
USSSA events are a regular trading destination for the teams we work with, and the International World Series in particular.
Some clubs deliberately leave the event, year and age group off the pin so one design works across every team in the program. One California club asked for exactly that: a generic club pin rather than a dated one.
Sourced — Antelope Valley Coyotes, 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
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
Trading at a USSSA event?
This order was 400 pins at 2.5". Send us your roster size and your event date and we will come back with a price.
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