Prix Fixe Pop-Up: Vendor Kick-off Meeting & Event Registration

Do you have a bunch of stuff taking up too much space in your house/storage/head? 

Wanna change that? Let us help!

Beginning with our May, 2025 sale, our Prix Fixe Pop-ups are open to vendor participation. Join the May cohort!

You may be asking: 

Am I qualified? This is a first come, first serve opportunity for people who are willing and able to commit to the time and participation requirements.

How do I sign up? Pay for your slot and register for the kick-off meeting. 

Where could I learn more in person? Join any of our other March events! These are casual and intended to nurture community and conversation, and great places to get questions answered before committing to the cohort.

Does participating in the May sale work for my schedule & pocketbook? Here are some high level dates (scroll for more details):

• Participation cost: $100 before March 31 ($150 on or after April 1).
• Vendor kickoff meeting: April 3.
• Active on-site event prep & execution window: April 30-May 4. 

Is this a good strategy for my situation? This could be a great option if you:

• Would benefit from a deadline to empty that storage locker, declutter the house, help elders downsize, or let go of inherited estate remainders.
• Find the idea of running a garage sale or spending the next X months/years listing stuff online exhausting.
  
• Are psychologically ready to let go, and want to simplify the cognitive/executive/functional burdens of rehoming unneeded items.
  
• Live in or near Minneapolis (55404), and love the idea of meeting and working with soon-to-be-friends and collaborators!
• Can handle (or recruit) the time and labor required to prep, schlep, and rep your stuff during significant portions of a high traffic, four day selling event.
  
• Would rather not leave it to someone else (donation center intake staff, your kids, etc.) to make decisions about what happens to things that you know to hold social and environmental value -- because you know how much will wind up in the trash if you do.

What's the time commitment? Minimum active time will be around 25 hours, and somewhere between 40-50 is likelier. Here's the big picture:

• Vendor Kickoff Meeting (in person, mandatory): April 3, 6-7:30 pm
• Three 4-hour 'event success' shifts (sign up at Vendor Kickoff meeting)
  
• Load in/setup window (participate as needed):
  • Wednesday, April 30 (Noon-8P)
  • Thursday, May 1 (Noon-5P)
• Sale Dates/times:
  • $25 Day (Thursday Early Bird): May 1 from 6-9PM (strongly encouraged)
  • $10 Day (Friday): May 2, Noon-8 (zone coverage negotiable)
  • $5 Day (Saturday): May 3, 10-8 (zone coverage negotiable)
  • $2 Day (Sunday): May 4, 10-4 (zone coverage negotiable)
• Load out window/deadline: Sunday, May 4, 4-8PM (task completion required)

How do I price stuff? You don't! Everything's $25 at the early bird, and what's still hanging around on Sunday gets sold for $2. By the end of the sale, 80-90% of everything will be gone. No stickering, no decision fatigue, no haggling, no wondering if you've priced it right or if you'll have to bring it all home because you didn't. 

What about the stuff I don't want to sell at $2? Easy! Don't bring it (sell it elsewhere). Or, bring it to the sale on Thursday, and pull it from the sale if it doesn't sell at a price point that works for you. We'll talk about how we've handled 'bulk' or bundle-worthy items (stuff that's not worth $2 on its own) within this format at the kick-off meeting.

What can I sell? This event series is a strictly post-consumer product channel (nothing newly manufactured or made using new materials).  Repairable and/or incomplete items are totally okay. We'll answer questions about unused boxed products ('New Old Stock', etc.) at the kickoff meeting. Bring rags and a small bucket if your stuff will be coming in dusty. See prohibited items section below about what *not* to bring. 

What should I avoid bringing? Great question. Most of this is common sense, some of it involves critical thinking: 

• Do not purchase or bring any new supply, material, or product to this event (i.e. don't buy new rubber bands or ZipLoc bags to bundle your items - it violates our 100% reuse claim and we take our Truth in Advertising standards seriously). 
• Abrahamic texts and related tchotchkes (plaques, mugs with verses, etc.) are expressly unwelcome: we refuse to promote or enable patriarchy, abuse, and/or American Christofascism, and we're not here to split hairs.
• Anything borderline that makes you think 'I'll just sneak it in - they won't notice.'
• The usual suspects:
  • Anything musty, moldy, smoky, hairy, or dirty/gross (no biohazards!)
  • Anything illegal or regulated (booze/tobacco/ammo/ivory/etc).
  • Racist, sexist, phobic/hateful/abusive content is expressly prohibited.

So, how do I decide what to sell? Use this as an opportunity for a thorough organizing/sorting session. As you review your 'stuff,' decide what you'd probably be happy to have out of your hair for $2 by the time the sale is over, and add it to the 'sell' pile. At the same time, you can decide what not to bring, and set that aside to be tackled another time. If you need help with this part of the project, consider finding a buddy, hiring a helper, or organizing a round robin to get through it. 

How do I get paid for my stuff? 

• You will accept payment directly from buyers during the event. Venmo, cash, Paypal...whichever you prefer. You accept it, you track it, you keep it (and you pay taxes on it per guidance from your bookkeeper/CPA).
• Arrange 'zone coverage' with other vendors to cover your product sales during time off the floor (we'll use the kick-off meeting to facilitate these connections in advance of the event).  
• If you're not available to staff your area, our stopgap solution will be to sell your product and retain the proceeds (we won't be able to track/account for this on an incremental basis, so this is the solution we've found to keep things running smoothly). If you don't mind, we're happy to do it! If you'd rather avoid this outcome, working out an informal zone coverage plan with another vendor is a great way to create flexibility for both of you.

I can't do the May sale. Will there be other opportunities? Yep! 

• Join the August cohort (July 31 - August 3; Kick-off meeting June 26)
• Join the November cohort (November 6-9; Kick-off meeting October 2)

My eyes are glazing over. Fair! The rest is fine print - it matters to the big picture, but probably won't affect your decision to participate. We'll review during kick-off and include similar content in our contract language. 

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Legal requirements:

• Adhere to Junket's legal claims for these events (i.e. we are subject to Federal Trade Commission's Truth In Advertising standards, and you are, too). We will provide specific details and answer questions about these requirements during the Kickoff Meeting.
  • 100% reuse (this allows us to honestly claim that no new manufacturing emissions are generated by our business model)
  • Promoted/advertised product must be made available to the general public
  • Honor the pricing structure to avoid creating confusion and/or diluting the value proposition.

This is not a good fit if:

• You want more control over pricing or need/want to maximize the economic value of each item. 
  
• You can't enthusiastically commit to participating as noted in the time/attendance/coordinated-coverage parameters outlined above
  
• You want to sell new stuff, handmade crafts, or anything involving newly manufactured parts/pieces/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.
• Your own direct impact: 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 (emissions/pollution, waste, and superfluous product) by creating access to environmentally ethical resources for other community members (go you!)

On integrity & brand standards:

• There's no shortage of high quality post-consumer goods, and no shortage of market opportunity to develop profitable models that keep more good stuff in rotation.
• We're mission-driven to deliver more ethical commerce options -- Prix Fixe is just one of our selling models.  If this one isn't a fit for you, join our mailing list or keep an eye on the web site. 
  
• Our business processes are based on what the EPA's WARM Factor data says about product manufacture, freight & travel methodologies, and the degree to which energy remains embodied in the outputs of industrial processes. We did the detailed research and synthesis during the COVID years. Now, it's time to apply what we've learned in community.
• If you don't understand why we've set certain standards or protocols for our events and gatherings, feel free to shoot us a note via our contact page. 

Still reading? Still have questions? Just ask!