Die-Cut Stickers for Southampton, New York

One hundred 4 by 4 inch die-cut stickers come to $416.00, or $4.16 apiece. That is not a package or a bundle, it is arithmetic you can check. A 4 by 4 inch sticker is 16 square inches. At 100 pieces the rate is 26 cents per square inch, so 16 times 26 cents is $4.16, and a hundred of those is $416.00. Take the same design up to 250 pieces and the rate drops to 24 cents, which puts each sticker at $3.84 and the whole run at $960.00. Doubling and a half the count added $544.00 to the bill and took 32 cents off every sticker. Nothing about the design changed. Only the count did.

We publish the rate rather than a menu of packages so that you can work out your own number before you ever send a file. Most of what gets cut for Southampton is merch: a band mark, a label logo, a lyric set in a typeface somebody spent a whole weekend arguing about. Everything is printed and cut at one storefront at 205 East Main Street in Huntington.

The rate card, band by band

Die-cut stickers are priced per square inch, and the rate falls as the count rises. It is 35 cents at 1 to 24 pieces, 30 cents at 25 to 49, 28 cents at 50 to 99, 26 cents at 100 to 249, 24 cents at 250 to 499, and 22 cents at 500. Because the rate is per square inch, size and count pull on the price together. A small sticker at a low count and a large sticker at a high count can land nearer each other than you would guess. If you are weighing a 4 by 4 against something larger, work the square inches first and apply the band second. The two numbers above, $416.00 and $960.00, are the two most common places a first merch run ends up.

The minimum is a door, not a floor

An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first. That is a threshold for placing the order at all, not a floor under the price. A single design at 10 pieces is a real order. So is one test sticker alongside enough of a second design to clear $10. Nobody has to pad a count to reach a number.

Five neighbours, none of them far

The five closest places we also cover are all inside 10.6 miles: North Sea at 3.8 miles, Hampton Bays at 7.1, Noyack at 7.6, East Quogue at 9.8, and Cutchogue at 10.6. Those are straight line figures, not road figures. It matters for one practical reason. If a label has artists scattered across those five places, the whole group still sits within a radius you could draw with a short piece of string, which makes it sensible to treat them as one ordering circle rather than five separate errands. One run, one box, one person splitting it afterward.

The distance, mentioned once

Southampton sits 52.6 miles east of the shop, measured straight line. That number changes nothing about the per square inch rate, which is the same figure wherever the order is going. What it does change is how you want the stickers to reach you. Local pickup at the storefront is free if somebody is making the trip anyway. Otherwise we ship within the United States, and the order is addressed exactly as you enter it at checkout.

What we need from the artwork

Send the mark at the size you want it cut, with the cut line either drawn or described. Vector art holds its edges at any size. A raster file works if it was built large enough to begin with, and the common failure is a logo pulled off a social profile at screen resolution and then blown up to four inches. Bleed matters on a die cut, so keep a little colour past where the cut will fall, and keep anything you actually want to read, a band name, a catalogue number, a URL, away from the edge. If you are unsure whether a file will hold up at 4 by 4, send it and ask before you settle on a count.

Four people who order runs like this

A band putting out a first run. You have one mark, you want it on a sticker, and the question is really how many. The 100 and 250 figures above are the honest comparison: $4.16 each against $3.84 each. If the design is settled and you know you will use them, the larger count is the cheaper sticker. If the design is still moving, a smaller count at a higher rate costs less to be wrong about.

A small label carrying several artists. Rates follow the count within a run, so four designs at 25 pieces each sit in the 25 to 49 band at 30 cents, while one design at 100 reaches 26 cents. Neither is wrong. It depends on whether you need four marks or one. Say how you want the split when you send the files.

Someone selling from a table. A sticker is often the thing that moves when a record does not, and it is the cheapest item on the table to restock. Pricing per square inch means you can size a sticker to the price you want to charge for it rather than the other way round.

Whoever got handed the merch job. Often it is not the band at all, it is a friend, a partner, or the one person in the group who answers email. You do not need an account to place the order, and you do not need to be the person whose logo it is. Guest checkout is fine.

Questions that come up

Our Southampton band wants 250 of the 4 by 4 design. What is the total?

$960.00. At 250 pieces the rate is 24 cents per square inch, and a 4 by 4 is 16 square inches, so each sticker is $3.84.

We are a small label in Southampton with four artists. Does one order of 100 mixed designs get the 100 piece rate?

The rate follows the count in a run of a single design. Four designs at 25 each land at 30 cents rather than 26. One design at 100 reaches 26 cents. Tell us the split you want and we will price it on that basis.

Can one Southampton order include copies meant for North Sea, Hampton Bays, Noyack, East Quogue and Cutchogue?

Yes. Those five all fall within 10.6 miles, so groups often order the full count in one go and divide the box by hand afterward. The alternative is separate orders, each priced on its own count, which usually means a higher rate per sticker on each one.

Does the 52.6 miles between the shop and Southampton affect what I pay per sticker?

No. The per square inch rate is set by size and count only. Distance affects whether you pick the order up at 205 East Main Street or have it sent, nothing else.

My Southampton address is 11968. Is 11969 handled any differently?

No. Both codes are covered the same way, and the order is addressed exactly as you type it at checkout. If a post office box and a street address point to the same order, give us the one you actually want printed on the label.