Custom Die Cut Stickers for West Bay Shore, New York

Five hundred 2.5 by 2.5 inch die cut stickers come to $687.50, which is $1.38 for each one. The arithmetic behind that is short enough to check by hand. A 2.5 by 2.5 inch sticker covers 6.25 square inches. At 500 pieces the rate is 22 cents per square inch, and 6.25 multiplied by 22 cents is $1.38 a piece. Five hundred of those is $687.50 of merchandise. What the sum buys is five hundred individually cut decals in whatever outline you hand us, trimmed to that outline rather than to a plain square, printed and cut at our single storefront at 205 East Main Street in Huntington.

A team decal run is the order this page has in mind. Somebody is holding a roster, a logo file that has been resized more than once, and a number that has to cover every player, a sibling or two, a row of car windows and a handful of spares. If you are ordering for a team in West Bay Shore, the pricing below is built around that shape of order, where the count is often settled before the artwork is.

How the rate falls as the count climbs

Die cut stickers here are priced per square inch, and the rate depends on how many pieces are on the order. It is 35 cents per square inch 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. The band your piece count lands in sets the rate for the order, and from there the price of a single sticker is just its area multiplied by that rate.

This is why the worked example above is worth keeping next to your roster. The same 6.25 square inch sticker costs more per piece at 20 than at 500, and the difference is not a discount code or a negotiation. It is the rate table doing what it says.

One name root, two places on the map

The second half of the name is shared with the town immediately next door, Bay Shore, which is 2.2 miles away in a straight line. That shared root is the one thing worth being deliberate about when you send an order over. Write the name out in full on the shipping line and put the ZIP on it as well, which here is 11706. Both places are inside the area we cover, so nothing is lost either way, but an unambiguous address is easier for everyone handling it after you.

Fourteen miles in a straight line

West Bay Shore sits 14.4 miles south east of the shop, measured as a straight line rather than as a route. It is in Suffolk County, inside the Town of Islip. Orders can be collected at the counter in Huntington at no charge, or sent to you anywhere in the United States.

Size first, then the count

The square inch rate means size and quantity pull on the price in different directions, so it helps to fix the size before you fix the count. A 2.5 by 2.5 inch decal is a common choice for a helmet panel, a water bottle or a back window, and at 6.25 square inches it is easy to reason about. Go larger and the square inch figure climbs, which raises the per piece price even though the rate per square inch has not moved. Go smaller and the opposite happens. Measure the surface the decal actually has to sit on before you settle it, because changing the size later changes every number on the quote. Bear in mind too that a die cut sticker is cut to the shape of the design, so a mascot with an outstretched arm or a long pennant tail measures wider than it looks.

What the cut line needs from your artwork

Send the highest quality version of the logo you have, ideally one that scales cleanly to whatever size you land on. If there is a specific outline you want cut, say so, and if there is not, we will cut around the shape of the design with an even margin. Very fine points and hairline gaps are the parts that suffer at small sizes, so tell us which parts of the mark matter most.

The smallest order that qualifies

An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first. That is a threshold rather than a price floor, so it is not a minimum charge you pay on top of anything. A short run of larger decals can clear the $10 side before it clears the 10 piece side, and a run of small ones usually does the reverse.

Four people who end up holding the order

The team manager. You have the roster, the count and the deadline for handing things out, and you want a single figure to take back to the parents. Start with the finished size, read the rate off the band your piece count falls in, and multiply.

The parent who volunteered. You did not pick the logo and you may not have the original file. Send whatever you were given, and say what you were told about it, including where it came from. That is usually enough to work out whether it can be printed at the size you want.

The coach ordering for one squad. A single squad is often a small count, which means a higher rate per square inch than a full club order. If another squad is likely to want the same decal, it is worth asking before you order, because the combined count may land in a different band.

The club treasurer. You are combining counts from several teams and you need the merchandise total to be defensible line by line. The area times rate calculation is the whole of it, and the worked example above shows every step.

Questions that come up

Is $687.50 the full merchandise figure for 500 of the 2.5 inch decals for a West Bay Shore team?

Yes. Six and a quarter square inches at 22 cents per square inch is $1.38 each, and 500 of those is $687.50 of merchandise.

Our West Bay Shore squad only needs about 40 decals. What does that do to the rate?

Forty pieces falls in the 25 to 49 band, so the rate is 30 cents per square inch instead of 22. The calculation does not change shape, only the rate does: multiply the square inch area of your decal by 30 cents to get the price of one.

Why should a West Bay Shore order carry the ZIP code as well as the town name?

Because the name shares a root with the town next door, and the ZIP, 11706, removes any question about which one is meant.

Do you cover the places right around West Bay Shore too?

Yes. Brightwaters is 1.5 miles away in a straight line, West Islip is 2.0 miles, Bay Shore is 2.2 miles, and Babylon and Islip are both 3.4 miles. A team drawing players from more than one of those is ordering from the same place either way.

We only want six decals for a West Bay Shore coaching staff. Does that qualify?

It depends on the merchandise value rather than the count. Six pieces is under the 10 piece threshold, but if those six come to $10 or more of merchandise the order qualifies on that side instead. Whichever condition is met first counts.