Prix Fixe Pop-Up: Vendor Reservation/Signup (Gather & Sell!)

We've all got stuff we don't need (some of us more than others), and after spending the last year figuring out how best to quickly recirculate hundreds-to-thousands of pounds of product within our community, we're ready to help you do the same. 

Beginning with our May 2025 sale, we are inviting community members to join us as sellers on a first come, first served basis. 

This opportunity is best suited for folks who: 

• Would benefit from a deadline to empty that storage locker, declutter the house, or let go of inherited estate remainders.
• Are able to handle (or recruit/hire) the physical labor of prepping, delivering, and setting up their stuff for a sale and supporting a materially intensive project.
  
• Have the capacity and desire to prepare for - and participate actively during - a four day event.
  
• Want to free up space at home so that it can be better utilized for more important purposes. 
• Can't or don't want to organize and host their own garage sale or online selling presence, but are psychologically ready to let go of household items appropriate for those channels.
  
• Would like to simplify the cognitive load and reduce the costs (time, research, pricing, sourcing willing takers, delivery, etc) of responsibly rehoming things they no longer need.
• Love the idea of meeting and collaborating with some soon-to-be-friends to create a memorable community experience together. 

Participation cost:

Signup by March 31, 2025: $100

Signup on or after April 1, 2025: $150

Time & Attendance: 

1. Attend an introductory meeting on the evening of the first Thursday of the month prior to the sale weekend (i.e. 4-5 weeks before the event). At this time, we'll make introductions, sign up for shifts and spaces, sign paperwork, review the social marketing strategy, and answer questions). 
2. Load in Thursday between 9A-5P. 
3. Be present for Thursday evening's early bird selling hours (6-9PM), at minimum. 
4. Sign up for three (3) 4-hour time slots to ensure effective signage, setup, weekend staffing, and leaving things better than we've found them after the event. 
   
5. Load out Sunday between 6-9P (and/or otherwise arrange for the removal of any remaining items from the venue no later than 9PM on Sunday evening).

Pricing strategy:

'Prix Fixe' means that every product is set at the same price. This approach dramatically reduces the labor, materials waste/cost, and cognitive load of common pre-sale activities: rather than assign and apply a sticker to every item, the owner/seller decides what among their items are worth selling within this pricing structure and brings those items to the event. No lowball offers, no haggling, everyone knows the pricing, and by end of day Sunday, 80-90% of everything will have cleared out. 

• Thursday evening early bird: $25 per item
• Friday: $10 per item
• Saturday: $5 per item
• Sunday: $2 per item

Product requirements:

• Nothing illegal or regulated (booze/tobacco/ammo/ivory/etc).
• Nothing musty or moldy.
• No exceptions to pricing: we advertise this event as flat price.
• While not encouraged, you may, at your discretion, take home items that are worth selling at $10, but that you'd prefer to hang onto if they haven't sold, for example, by the time $2 day rolls around...while we don't do this, we can appreciate a 'thin the herd' strategy where you let the crowd choose what stays and what goes if you're struggling to make decisions. 
• Repairable and/or incomplete items okay.
• You may consider creating product bundles for items that aren't likely worth $2 on their own (or for faster sell-through, regardless)... but please do not purchase new supplies (i.e. baggies, dollar store containers, tape, etc.) for this purpose. Instead, use/source existing household items (string, rubber bands, paper clips, etc.).
• Do not bring any product to this sale that you may have originally purchased in new, retail or wholesale condition with the intent to sell. 
• Do not purchase new product for or offer newly purchased products at this sale. If you have unopened products that you'd like to sell (thought you'd need but didn't, missed the return window, etc.), those are fine.

Selling:

• You keep any/all funds you collect personally from the sale of your stuff. Venmo, cash, Paypal -- you accept it, you track it, you keep it (and you pay taxes as you/r tax advisors deem appropriate).
  
• You understand that while you are not required to be in attendance for the duration of the sale, the house will manage and retain sales proceeds for items that sell in your absence if you haven't made other arrangements for coverage. 
• You *may* make alternate arrangements with an adjacent seller to cover your area's sales when you aren't on site! In that case, whatever gets negotiated is a private deal between you and your collaborator (we don't even need to know about it as long as your collaborator handles the payments and you-all have a plan that works for you).

This is not a good fit if you:

• Need or want to maximize the economic value of the items you intend to sell. 
• Are already a professional reseller (unless you'd like to destash a bunch of your old vintage inventory and join us for some weekend fun, in which case we'd love to have you!)
• Actually *enjoy* pricing and listing/promoting your own product (may the odds ever be in your favor!)
• Can not enthusiastically commit to participating as noted in the time and attendance parameters outlined above... if jumping into a group project like this doesn't sound like your kind of thing, it's probably not your kind of thing (and that's ok -- we're working on other kinds of things that may be a better fit). 
• Want to sell handmade crafts or any newly manufactured product...we're offering this event series as a strictly post-consumer product channel.  There's already too much stuff on this planet, and we don't want to support or incentivize active participation in a socially, ecologically, and economically extractive system when so much abundance already exists in the post-consumer realm! There's no shortage of ethical market opportunity in solving for supply chain, culture, and process/ops gaps that prevent access to high quality post-consumer goods, so that's where we're choosing to focus. We'd love to have you join us, of course - but you'll have to figure out other plans to sell your conventionally purchased (or made-using-conventionally-purchased-supplies) products.

On air quality and community health: 

• Event specific: we'll have doors open for airflow as weather permits. Masks recommended/encouraged for those who prefer them or whose immune systems or households may be at higher risk. Emerging risks will be addressed on a case-by-case basis.
• Big picture: carbon emissions are heavily front-loaded into the pre-consumer phases of any product's environmental lifecycle. When you usher your leftovers to a useful future, you're not only mitigating your own waste, but you're also helping to reduce demand for new manufacturing and contributing to community need-meeting in ways that benefit all involved (go, you!)