+Halden Posted January 8, 2004 Share Posted January 8, 2004 Lapel pins are fairly popular trade items around here, are these good items? I was thinking of buying some bulk from City Hall to use as trade items? Quote Link to comment
+New England n00b Posted January 8, 2004 Share Posted January 8, 2004 Pin them to $100 bills and I'll come out of 'retirement' to find 'em... If they are meaningful to you, they are a good signature item. I have a bunch of dollar store items, and the materials to make my own sig items (silly, but cute). Again, if you like 'em, go for it... (Well, IMHO) Quote Link to comment
+The Weasel Posted January 8, 2004 Share Posted January 8, 2004 Sounds like a good trade item to me. I think a sig item should either represent a persons personality/nickname or where they are from. Quote Link to comment
+Halden Posted January 8, 2004 Author Share Posted January 8, 2004 (edited) I was going to use a combination of my City's pin and this logo printed on cards, stickers or magnets. Edited January 8, 2004 by Halden Quote Link to comment
+New England n00b Posted January 8, 2004 Share Posted January 8, 2004 Dude, that's pretty cool, actually... I'd love to get my hands on one from a cache. That's great! Quote Link to comment
+sept1c_tank Posted January 8, 2004 Share Posted January 8, 2004 How will you feel when some innocent child pokes his eye out with it? Or when a criminal on the chain gang holds his "boss" hostage with it? Maybe a teenage gang will start collecting them...throw a handful into traffic and cause an unsuspecting motorist a blowout, resulting in a chain reaction accident. Seriously, I think they would make good trading items. I've left a few nondescript lapel pins in caches, myself. Quote Link to comment
+pnew Posted January 8, 2004 Share Posted January 8, 2004 (edited) Hey Halden I too was very interested in some sort of custom lapel pins until I started looking into the pricing. I can't buy 400 pins to keep the price down and I really don't think I could get rid of that many Most companies also nail you with the mold fee unless you buy and insane amount of pins and it just wasn't price effective for me. You'll also notice the bigger the pin (and most rectangular designs) are more expensive than the normal square pin. I gave up. edit: lol I said price effective; meant cost effective Edited January 9, 2004 by pnew Quote Link to comment
+mtn-man Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 I have already done two personalized ones myself. I have one that has a GGA logo and a second one that has my avatar with some added text. I will shoot a photo of them tonight and will add them to this post later. The puppymonster pin is one of my favorite signature items and will fit in a 35MM microcache. Quote Link to comment
+pnew Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 yeah MTN man I actually picked one of your pins up in a cache in Houston after you had just found the cache. Very nice and they came in little plastic baggies too Quote Link to comment
+SamLowrey Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 How will you feel when some innocent child pokes his eye out with it?Or when a criminal on the chain gang holds his "boss" hostage with it? Maybe a teenage gang will start collecting them...throw a handful into traffic and cause an unsuspecting motorist a blowout, resulting in a chain reaction accident. Dang it - we think alike! I was going to post something sarcastic just like that. Quote Link to comment
+woodsters Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 mtn-man where did you get yours made at and are they costly? I recently dipped into my Police Patch/Pin collection and started leaving patches and pins in some of the local caches here. Quote Link to comment
+Sparky-Watts Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 mtn-man where did you get yours made at and are they costly? I recently dipped into my Police Patch/Pin collection and started leaving patches and pins in some of the local caches here. I'm not leaving any of my police patches in caches.....those are too dang hard to get, what with the police and their guns and clubs and pepper spray and all......they really put up a fight! I had thought about leaving some of my retired KS MICT (paramedic) lapel pins and patches as sig items, but I really don't have as many as I thought. I'd run out too quickly. I like your design, though, Halden. Very nice! Quote Link to comment
+Halden Posted January 9, 2004 Author Share Posted January 9, 2004 I printed the first batch up, they look good if I do say so myself. Some are on Business cards some on magnets. Now to find a cache to put them in. Quote Link to comment
+The Weasel Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 I printed the first batch up, they look good if I do say so myself. Some are on Business cards some on magnets. Now to find a cache to put them in. Feel free to put them in any of my caches!!! Quote Link to comment
+woodsters Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 I'm not leaving any of my police patches in caches.....those are too dang hard to get, what with the police and their guns and clubs and pepper spray and all......they really put up a fight! LOL...well if you are going through that much trouble, then you shouldn't only come out with a patch, go for the gun! I was doing a lot of patch trading a few years ago and have gotten a lot of some from the federal prison I worked at and a couple other places. I started leaving them in some of the caches along with some other duplicate patches I have. I know longer am doing any trading or am not doing so right now. The patches were sitting in a box in the basement and I got the idea that they would be neat trade items. some may think they are cheesy, but if you were to try and buy one from a collector they would run you anywhere from $4-10 a piece easily. So they are pretty valuable trade items. Thing is, that I haven't really traded many of them. I've left them in caches and took nothing. Quote Link to comment
+pnew Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 (edited) hey sorry for bringing up an old topic but this company: www.qualitylapelpins.com He does small orders and has a flat rate of $120 for orders up to 40 lapel pins (plus $10 shipping). Most companies dont even do orders that small. If I had the extra money I would so be ordering mine right now btw price varies depending on your size and amount of colors used. E-mail with your design for official price quote) Edited January 12, 2004 by pnew Quote Link to comment
+Imajika Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 I did the same thing. I printed up some business cards and got a bulk lot of guardian angel pins. Hopefully people will enjoy them. I JUST got the pins in the mail yesterday. I am gonna put my sig item in some caches this weekend. Quote Link to comment
+Imajika Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 By the way, I got my pins on Ebay. 10 dollars for 50 pins. You might want to check there to see if you can get a better deal. Quote Link to comment
+bigredmed Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 (edited) I had some caching business cards printed as a sig item and added a Visit Nebraska pin to them. These seem popular when I cache out of state. All the ones I placed in San Diego have already been taken. This approach is really cost effective as the business cards can be fairly inexpensive if your design is simple. The pins are often either free from tourism boards or not very expensive. Just went on Ebay and searching the Wholesale lots section, you can find 100 custom buttons for 18 dollars. Edited January 12, 2004 by bigredmed Quote Link to comment
+Halden Posted January 13, 2004 Author Share Posted January 13, 2004 Left my first signature magnet in a cache. Yeah me. Quote Link to comment
+mtn-man Posted January 14, 2004 Share Posted January 14, 2004 Sorry to take so long to post woodsters. My camera battery compartment has a broken pin and now will not stay closed. It was a struggle to get these photos. The pins I use for my sig items were custom made and I got 250 of each. They cost about $2.00 each or so. I honestly don't remember. The photo pin cost more since it is full color. I get paid sometimes with barter credits and I bought my pins within the barter network. The company I bought them from is up in Syracuse, NY. Here are my two pins. The J.C. pin is a little dark. I will lighten it up on the next run most likely. That will be about a year from now though. King Boreas got one of my J.C. pins and made a TBug out of it! Quote Link to comment
+Wulfster Posted January 14, 2004 Share Posted January 14, 2004 I've had really good luck ordering surplus pins off of CheapPins.com. I see that they now have a site where you can order custom pins, but I don't know how their prices compare. The pins I bought were top notch (as was the service). They currently have a whole bunch of Sydney Olympic pins for 99 cents each... Quote Link to comment
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