BannerBuzz vs MT Displays 2026: Which Fits Your Store?

Affiliate disclosure: some links in this article are affiliate links and I may earn a commission at no cost to you. It does not change what I recommend or what the vendor pages actually say. Every price below was read on the vendor’s own live page on 16 September 2026, with the size and the configuration attached.

Before any price, one thing you need to know, because it will confuse you within four seconds of clicking an MT Displays link anywhere on the internet. The MT Displays affiliate link does not land on mtdisplays.com. It lands on a storefront called Displays Outlet, at displaysoutlet.com.

That is not a broken link and it is not a bait and switch. They are the same business. I re-verified it this session rather than taking anyone’s word for it, and the evidence is in the next section. But it does mean that if you are comparing BannerBuzz to “MT Displays”, the thing you are actually comparing it to is Displays Outlet, and that is the storefront I priced, because that is where you as a reader will end up.

The second thing you need to know is that this is not really a like-for-like comparison, and any article that presents it as one is misleading you. BannerBuzz sells you a printed banner stand. Displays Outlet mostly sells you the aluminium and leaves the printing as a separate decision. Their own product page says it in plain words: “Please note, the banner itself is not included.”

So the question is not which is cheaper. It is which business you are running. If you need two good-looking stands for a supplier trade show next month, one of these is obviously right. If you are buying twenty stands and re-skinning the graphics between shows, the other one is. I have run high-ticket dropshipping stores for over fifteen years and I have been in both situations.

Need two printed stands for next month’s show, not twenty

BannerBuzz includes the printed graphic at $58.52 for a 2 Ft x 5 Ft stand. The closest Displays Outlet unit with print service is $99.30 at 24 inches wide.

Price a printed stand on BannerBuzz →

The Domain Problem, and Why I Priced Displays Outlet

Here is what I read on displaysoutlet.com’s own schema.org markup on 16 September 2026. The organisation’s legal name field contains the value m.minnig@mtdisplaysllc.com. The telephone field reads +1-855-478-0652. The street address is 71 Woodbury St., the locality is Hanover, and the postal code is 18706.

I then loaded mtdisplays.com separately. That site publishes the same phone number, 855-478-0652, and the same ZIP code, 18706, with Wilkes-Barre in the address. Two domains, one phone number, one ZIP, and an MT Displays LLC email address sitting in the legal name field of the storefront.

That is enough for me to treat them as one business and to price the storefront the affiliate link actually reaches. It is not enough for me to make claims about corporate structure, ownership percentages or trading history, so I am not going to make any. What I can tell you is where your click goes and what that page charges.

If you want the fuller background on the brand itself, I covered it in the MT Displays review. The short version for this article is that every Displays Outlet price below is the price a US reader sees after clicking through.

Correcting the Record on What Displays Outlet Sells

I want to flag a correction to something I previously believed, because getting this wrong would have produced a badly misleading article.

An earlier check in this project concluded that the MT Displays product sitemap contained no retractable or roll up banner stands at all. That check was run against the wrong domain. When I pulled the sitemap for displaysoutlet.com, where the affiliate link actually lands, I got a very different picture: 15 sub-sitemaps, 2,082 URLs in total, and 1,825 product pages.

Searching those URLs for retractable, roll-up, banner-stand and pull-up returns 44 matches. The site also runs a dedicated category at /product-category/retractable-banner-stands/ with nine subcategories beneath it, including retractable roll up stands, optima roll up banner, quick banner stands, cross banners, smart roll banners, practical x banner, wall banner stand, poster traps and easy swaps.

So Displays Outlet emphatically does sell retractable banner stands, and quite a lot of them. The lesson I take from that, and the reason I am telling you about my own error rather than quietly fixing it, is that a 404 on an obvious URL is never a finding. Pull the sitemap, or do not make the claim.

The Difference That Actually Decides This

Now to the thing that matters. On BannerBuzz, the price you see for a roll up banner stand includes the printed graphic. On Displays Outlet, for the stands I opened, it does not.

The Premium 39×79 inch retractable roll up banner stand page carries the sentence “Please note, the banner itself is not included.” Its listed price of $103.32 buys the hardware and a carrying bag. Immediately alongside it, the page offers a separate line reading With Print Service at $158.31, which is the same unit with a printed graphic.

That $55 gap between hardware and hardware-plus-print is the single most important number in this comparison, because it is the number that makes naive price comparisons wrong. Anyone putting “$103.32” next to BannerBuzz’s “$58.52” and concluding BannerBuzz is cheaper has compared a bare frame to a finished product.

Printed Against Printed

Here is the honest version, with print included on both sides and sizes stated. I have not forced the sizes to match because they do not, and pretending otherwise would be the same error in a different direction.

Product	Graphic size	Printed price	Hardware only
BannerBuzz Roll Up Banner Stands	2 Ft x 5 Ft	$58.52	Not sold separately
Displays Outlet Premium Optima Roll-Up	24″ x 78.74″	$99.30	$61.80
Displays Outlet 33.5″ Silver Anodized Aluminum	33.46″ wide	$96.99	$51.00
Displays Outlet Premium 39×79 Retractable	39.37″ x 78.74″	$158.31	$103.32

That is four rows across two vendors. The closest match on width is the Optima at 24 inches against BannerBuzz’s 2 Ft, which is also 24 inches. On that pairing BannerBuzz is $58.52 against $99.30, so it is $40.78 cheaper for a single printed unit.

The caveat is real though. The Optima graphic is 78.74 inches tall against BannerBuzz’s 60 inches, so you are getting 18.74 inches more banner for that money. Taller reads better across a hall. Whether that is worth $40.78 to you depends on whether anyone is looking at your booth from more than ten feet away.

Displays Outlet also specifies its material in a way BannerBuzz’s page does not on the same screen. Its graphic type is given as Textured Vinyl Matte 13oz, and the 39×79 unit is listed at 6.4 lbs with a packing size of 42 by 5 by 5 inches. If you are shipping a stand to a show rather than carrying it, that weight matters.

Buying in volume and re-skinning graphics each season?

Displays Outlet publishes a real eight-tier ladder in plain HTML: the 33.5 inch stand drops from $51.00 to $40.80 at 500 units, and free shipping in 2 to 3 business days carries no stated minimum.

See the bulk ladder →

The Bulk Ladder Is the Real Advantage

This is where Displays Outlet wins outright, and it wins on transparency as much as on price.

Every retractable stand page I opened publishes a quantity discount table in plain HTML, with eight tiers. Here is the ladder for the Premium 39×79 inch stand, hardware only, exactly as printed on its page.

Quantity	Price each	Quantity	Price each
1 to 9	$103.32	50 to 99	$91.95
10 to 19	$98.15	100 to 199	$89.89
20 to 29	$96.09	200 to 499	$87.82
30 to 49	$94.02	500 or more	$82.66

That is eight tiers, laid out above in two columns of four, counted against the page. The 33.5 inch unit runs the same eight tiers from $51.00 down to $40.80, and the Optima from $61.80 down to $49.44. The top-to-bottom saving on the 39×79 unit is $20.66 per stand, which is exactly 20% off the single-unit price.

Now compare that to what BannerBuzz publishes on the same question, which is nothing. I searched the roll up banner stand page for a quantity discount table and there is none in the static HTML. The price-per-quantity field in its own product data is null. Whatever volume pricing BannerBuzz offers loads behind a script or happens in a conversation, so I am not going to quote a figure for it.

What BannerBuzz does publish, on its coupons page, is an order-value ladder: 10% off sitewide at a minimum order value of 350, 15% at 500, and 20% at 700. That is a different mechanism. It discounts your basket, not your unit, and the headline sitewide offers carry a stated maximum discount of $100, which caps the benefit on exactly the large orders where a unit ladder would help most.

Shipping and Turnaround

The shipping models differ in a way that quietly favours Displays Outlet on small orders and BannerBuzz on assembled kits.

Displays Outlet states “Free Shipping in 2-3 business days” directly on its product pages, with no minimum order value stated alongside it. BannerBuzz gives free shipping on orders over $99, which is stated in its own product descriptions. So a single $58.52 BannerBuzz stand does not ship free, while a single $99.30 Displays Outlet printed stand does.

Run that properly. One printed stand delivered: BannerBuzz is $58.52 plus whatever shipping costs, Displays Outlet is $99.30 all in. Two printed stands: BannerBuzz is $117.04 shipped free, Displays Outlet is $198.60 shipped free. At two units and above BannerBuzz’s advantage is clear and grows.

On turnaround, BannerBuzz runs a same day shipping page listing qualifying products, with the 2 Ft x 5 Ft roll up banner stand among them. Displays Outlet’s 2 to 3 business day free shipping is a delivery window rather than a dispatch promise, which is arguably the more useful statement of the two, but it is the slower one if you are genuinely down to the wire.

Both are vendor claims. I have not audited either against a real order, and I would not plan a show around either without testing it first. A banner that arrives late or wrong the week of a show is a total loss, not a partial one.

Proofing, and What Neither Publishes

BannerBuzz advertises “Premium Quality | Unlimited Free Design Proofs | 24×7 Support” in its site header, which is the more reassuring position if you are sending artwork you are not confident about. Displays Outlet offers an Upload Design and Start Designing flow on its product pages alongside the print service price.

Neither vendor publishes blind drop-shipping terms, and I checked before writing that. BannerBuzz’s sitemap lists 1,416 URLs and the only match for dealer, wholesale, drop-ship, reseller or B2B terms is a bulk yard signs product page. It does run a business enquiry subdomain that segments by industry and includes a Distributors option, but that page publishes no prices, no minimums and no shipping terms. Displays Outlet’s 2,082 sitemap URLs contain no dealer, trade or drop-ship page either.

So on the question of whether either will ship unbranded to your customer, the answer from both is that you have to ask. If that capability is core to your model rather than a nice-to-have, work through the supplier-qualification process in my guide to finding high-ticket dropshipping suppliers before you place an order with either of them.

The Verdict

For the reader this site is written for, BannerBuzz wins, and it is not close at the quantities you will actually buy.

A high-ticket dropshipping store owner needs one or two printed stands for supplier trade shows. At that volume BannerBuzz is $58.52 per printed 2 Ft x 5 Ft stand against $99.30 for the nearest printed Displays Outlet equivalent, two stands clear BannerBuzz’s $99 free shipping threshold, and the bulk ladder that would favour Displays Outlet never comes into play because you are buying two units, not two hundred.

Displays Outlet is the right answer in two specific cases. The first is genuine volume: at 20 units the 33.5 inch stand is $47.43 each as hardware, and at 500 it is $40.80, with a published ladder you can plan against rather than a quote you have to chase. The second is a re-skinning strategy, where you buy good hardware once and print new graphics for each season or each show, which is the model their hardware-only pricing is built for and which BannerBuzz does not really serve.

There is also a third vendor in this conversation that beats both on small printed orders in the other direction, and that is BannerBuzz’s own sister site. I compared them in BannerBuzz against BestofSigns, where the same part code costs more than twice as much on one of the two sites.

My honest closing position is that this decision should take you fifteen minutes. If you are buying fewer than five stands, buy printed from BannerBuzz. If you are buying more than twenty, price the hardware ladder at Displays Outlet and source printing separately. Everything in between is a judgement call that will not make or break your year.

Spending your week on banner stands instead of suppliers

The gap between these two vendors on a real order is under $100. The gap between good and bad supplier terms is thousands. We build the store and secure the suppliers.

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How to Verify Any of This

Prices move, so check rather than trust. On a Displays Outlet product page, look for the line stating whether the banner is included, then look for the With Print Service figure, because those two numbers are the whole comparison. The quantity discount table sits directly below the price and renders in plain text, so you can read it without any special tooling.

On BannerBuzz, the thing to check is the size selector, since signage is priced per size and a figure without a configuration attached is not a price. Confirm you are on the US storefront too, because the company runs separate sites for Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Canada, and those publish different numbers in different currencies.

And confirm where any MT Displays link takes you before you compare anything. If the address bar says displaysoutlet.com, you are in the right place and the prices in this article apply. If it says something else, they may not.

If you are still working out whether exhibiting is worth it for your store at all, the answer is that trade shows matter enormously for supplier relationships and very little for customer acquisition in this model. That trade-off is set out in the overview of what high-ticket dropshipping actually is, and it is the more valuable read if you are early.

Finally, settle your trading name before you print anything with it on. Reprinting a backdrop after a rename costs more than the original did, and the considerations are covered in my guide to business formation for high-ticket dropshipping. This article is general commercial information rather than legal or tax advice, and the rules vary by state.

For the wider model these purchases support, start at the Ecommerce Paradise homepage. The high-ticket niches list is the right next read if you are still choosing what to sell.

Research on the exhibitions industry is published by the Center for Exhibition Industry Research. The US Commercial Service maintains a practical guide to trade shows for exporters.

If you publish product reviews yourself, the FTC endorsement guides are the primary source to work from.

Trevor Fenner

Trevor Fenner is an ecommerce entrepreneur and the founder of Ecommerce Paradise, a platform focused on helping entrepreneurs build and scale profitable high-ticket ecommerce and dropshipping businesses. With over a decade of hands-on experience, Trevor specializes in high-ticket dropshipping strategy, niche and product selection, supplier recruiting and onboarding, Google & Bing Shopping ads, ecommerce SEO, and systems-driven automation and scaling. Through Ecommerce Paradise, he provides free education via in-depth guides like How to Start High-Ticket Dropshipping, advanced training through the High-Ticket Dropshipping Masterclass, and fully done-for-you turnkey ecommerce services for entrepreneurs who want a faster, more hands-off path to growth. Trevor is known for emphasizing sustainable, real-world ecommerce models over hype-driven tactics, helping store owners build scalable, sellable, and location-independent brands.