I really wanted a small package no more than 100. However they only came in 500. The product itself looked odd and I did not notice until I opened it (just as the manufacturer had planned I presume) that these pins were skinny a much smaller diameter than anything I’ve ever seen. This makes them harder to use on stiff surfaces and I wonder if the manufacturer thought they were doing this to save money on every million or so pins because there was no reason for this “manufacturing defect”.