Market in the Park-et: How Signups Work
Signups occur through our website on a specific date and time. I send that date and time to our vendor email list at least a week in advance, and I also post it in our vendor Instagram Channel. So you are given plenty of notice to prepare.
When the time comes to sing up for the market, you will find this page, called “Vendor Signup!” on our website.
You can also click here to go to that page.
Here’s what it will 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 currently is.
At 10am, refresh the page and it’ll look like this, with a button called “Signup form” to click:
Click that button, and it’ll take you to the form to fill out.
The form will look pretty much exactly like the embedded forms below.
You can fill these out as much as you want, for practice.
MAKE SURE TO HIT “SUBMIT” AT THE END.
You will get a confirmation email at the end if you did it correctly.
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 signup process and to keep things as fair as possible. But we also have to make sure we avoid a situation where there are 140 clothing vendors and nothing else (for instance). 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.