Market in the Park-et: How Signups Work
You will find the link to sign up on our website on this web page.
Here’s what it’ll look like on our home page:
Before 10am, it will say “Form Unavailable.” And it won’t say April, it’ll say whatever month it is.
At 10am, refresh the page and it’ll look like this, with a link to click:
Click that button on the big day, and it’ll take you to the form to fill out.
The form will look pretty much exactly like this embedded form here.
You can fill this one out as much as you want, for practice.
Wash Park:
City Park:
Think about all of the options and answers before the day of signups
so you can select what you want quickly.
Questions about the areas of each market?
I have guides to Wash Park and City Park here.
You will get what your first AREA preference if it is available. You will get your second AREA preference if it is not.
I cannot change your preference afterward except in very rare circumstances.
So please, no matter how fast you’re filling out the form, double check that you’ve selected the right thing. I don’t want you to be disappointed.
Your answers will be recorded on a spreadsheet that I’ll look at later that day.
I evaluate every business in the order they appear on the spreadsheet.
But I’ll skip you/deny your application if…
- You have signed up but you’re not on our vendor communications list. If you came to this page from an email, you are on it.
- You have violated our policies in the past
- Your products do not fit with our policies
- I can’t actually figure out what you sell or what it looks like
I keep a close eye on the balance of offerings of each category we offer, to avoid having the market be unbalanced. I reserve the right to skip an applicant if we already have reached the limit for that category.
What is “the limit”? We want the balance of categories at the market to roughly reflect the balance of people on this email list. So for instance, since this list is about 40% vintage clothing vendors, we would aim to have 40% of a market be vintage clothing vendors.
I go to great pains to avoid having to intervene on the “first come first serve” nature of this and luckily I have not had to do much. I am just trying to avoid a situation where there are 140 clothing vendors and nothing else. The end experience for the customer is important.
I will send an acceptance email to those who were able to secure a spot.
It may take up to 72 hours to hear from me, as it takes a while to assess applications.
After that, I will send an email to those who were waitlisted.
Waitlisted people do get in sometimes, so don’t let being a little late deter you from signing up anyway!
Your spot is not guaranteed to you until you pay for it, and you MUST do so promptly.
I try to be reasonable, but trust me: there’s someone on that waitlist ready and willing to pay immediately. Don’t make me move on to them.
Couple more things:
- You cannot sign up and then give your spot to someone. You are signing up for yourself, or I’m going down the list.
- You can split your booth but you have to tell me who they are, and they have to be on our email list and/or instagram group chat so that they know all the rules, details, and updates.