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Custom trading pins have long been an extremely popular part of Little League baseball and softball. Ever since Little League introduced its first official trading pins in the 1980s, the hobby of collecting and trading pins has grown bigger by the year. Custom trading pins have become such an obsession for some that many people go to the Little League World Series each year just to trade pins, and never see a baseball game.
Newcomers to the world of custom trading pins and even some veterans are sometimes overwhelmed by the choices to be made when ordering pins. There's nothing to be intimidated by. Any reputable supplier of custom trading pins will do their best to make the process easy, fast and fun.
There are a few things you can do to make the process easier:
There's one cardinal rule when ordering custom trading pins: order early! Trading pin factories run year round. But the peak season for every producer of custom trading pins in the world did we mention EVERY is between the first of June and the end of August. How about that? It coincides just about perfectly with, you guessed it, youth baseball season.
For three-quarters of the year, suppliers of custom trading pins can offer guaranteed delivery of two weeks or less. But once the season gets under way, the factories start getting backlogged with orders and those guarantees go out the window. Your team might get its custom trading pins in two weeks or six weeks.
If you order your team's custom trading pins early, you won't have to worry about shipping delays or factory backlogs. Waiting too long to order is the most common mistake made by customers ordering custom trading pins for the first time.
Think about it. Wouldn't you rather know that your team will have custom trading pins in hand when the trading sessions start? The alternative is to pay extra for a rush order (assuming you can even get one), and risk seeing your players' disappointment when they're the only team at the tournament with no pins to trade. Maybe you can get the custom trading pins shipped to your team's hotel the night before the game. Maybe not. Do you really want to chance it?
Another key point to remember is to not involve too many people in the design selection. Too many people means too many possible delays and distractions to getting the design of your custom trading pins set. Ideally, one parent and the team coach should have the authority to decide which design for your custom trading pins to order.
Think big when designing your team's custom trading pins. Bigger pins always trade better than smaller ones. Most teams order pins in a range of 1.75 inches to 2.5 inches. Every additional quarter-inch increases the surface area of your pins by up to 25 percent. That gives you more room for your design and options.
If you want to make sure your team's custom trading pins have that "wow" factor that others will want to trade for, add options. Eye-catching add-ons such as spinners, sliders, bobble heads, blinkers and glitter will help guarantee your custom trading pins will be the ones that everyone else at the ballpark will want to trade for.
