Custom Die-Cut Stickers for Bohemia, New York

A 3 by 4 inch die cut sticker is $4.20 each at 16 pieces, so the run of 16 comes to $67.20. That is the sum most people arrive with, because 16 is a realistic number for a single property: a few on the sign rider, a few on the front of the folder you hand out, one on the window of the car, a couple held back. What the sum buys is sixteen stickers cut to the outline of your own shape instead of trimmed to a rectangle, printed from the file you send, at a price you can check yourself before you commit to it.

How the price moves as the pile grows

Die cut stickers here are priced by size, not by design, and the price of each one steps down as the piece count rises. On that 3 by 4 inch sticker it is $4.20 each from 1 to 24 pieces, $3.60 from 25 to 49, $3.36 from 50 to 99, $3.12 from 100 to 249, $2.88 from 250 to 499, and $2.64 at 500. The step that matters most to a small order is the first one. Take the same sticker from the paragraph above and order 25 instead of 16, and each one becomes $3.60, which makes the run $90.00. You have added nine stickers and lowered what each one costs at the same time.

Two figures interact here and they are easy to mix up. The width and height decide how much sticker you are buying. The piece count decides which step you are charged at. A bigger shape does not move you to a cheaper step.

The minimum is a gate, not a floor

An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first. Those are two separate doors into the same room. Ten small stickers often clear the piece count long before they clear ten dollars of value, and a single large panel can clear the dollar figure while sitting well under ten pieces. Either one is enough. Nothing is rounded up to meet it and no shortfall is charged, which is why it reads as a minimum to qualify rather than a minimum you pay.

Oakdale and Sayville, at the same remove

Bohemia is 16.3 miles south east of the shop in a straight line, which is the only honest way to put it, since roads do not run in straight lines and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What is more useful is the local picture. Two of the places we also cover, Oakdale and Sayville, sit at exactly the same distance away, 2.4 miles each, one to either side. North Great River is 2.6 miles off, Ronkonkoma 2.7, West Sayville 2.9. An agent working this patch is rarely working one ZIP code alone, and a design made for 11716 usually has a sibling a couple of miles away with a different address line on it. Think about that when you choose a quantity rather than after the first run is gone, because the step is set by the number of pieces of a design and not by how many versions of the layout you have.

Artwork, and where the cut line comes from

A die cut sticker is cut to the edge of the shape you give us, so the shape is part of the artwork rather than a setting applied afterwards. If your logo has a long thin tail or a fine serif hanging off it, the cut line has to follow that. Most people are better served by a simple outline around the mark with a little breathing room. Send the highest resolution version you have, with the background separated if the shape is not a plain rectangle or circle, and say in plain words what you want cut around.

Getting the order to you

Everything is printed and cut at one address, 205 East Main Street in Huntington, New York. You can collect at the counter for free, or have the order sent anywhere in the United States, and a Suffolk County address is handled the same as any other.

Who these runs usually belong to

The agent taking one Bohemia property to market. You want the listing to look like a listing and not like a photocopy, so the sticker carries the mark, the address line and nothing else. A run in the low tens covers the sign rider, the folders and the window card, and the arithmetic at the top of this page is more or less your order.

The team that brands everything the same. The design is settled and only the address changes, so the sensible move is to work out a year of listings rather than one, put the pieces on a single run and clear a lower step. The price does not care that the stickers will be used at different times.

The open house table. Some people put out a small take away sticker for anyone who walks through, which is a different object from the one on the sign: smaller shape, far higher count, and the count is what pulls the price per piece down. This is the case where 250 or 500 pieces stops sounding excessive.

The office manager ordering for other people. One design, several agents, several address lines, some of them in Bohemia and some a few miles off. As long as it all goes on one order the pieces are counted together, which beats four people each ordering sixteen of their own.

Questions that come up

I only need 16 stickers for a single Bohemia listing. Is there a reason to order 25 instead? There is. At 16 a 3 by 4 inch sticker is $4.20 each and the run is $67.20. At 25 the same sticker is $3.60 each, and 25 of them is $90.00. You pay a little more in total, get nine more pieces, and lower the cost of each one.

My Bohemia design and one for Sayville are identical except for the address line. Do those go on one order or two? Either works. Two versions of a layout are two separate items, and each is priced on the number of pieces you take of it, so splitting a run across both does not reach a step that one of them would reach alone.

Can a Bohemia order be collected at the counter instead of sent out? Yes. Local pickup at the Huntington shop is free and is offered on every order, whichever ZIP code the stickers are destined for.

The sticker I want for a Bohemia listing is bigger than 3 by 4 inches. Does that move me to a different step? No. Size changes what each sticker costs, but the step you are on is set purely by how many pieces you order. A larger sticker at 16 pieces sits on exactly the same step as the 3 by 4 inch one.

Two agents are splitting one Bohemia run between them. Does the combined count set the price? It does, as long as it is one run of one design. Twelve pieces each, ordered separately, are two short runs at $4.20 a sticker on the 3 by 4 inch size. Put together as 24 of one design they sit a hair under the 25 piece step, and adding one more takes the whole thing to $3.60.