How to become a vendor at the Fetish Fair Fleamarket

We maintain a database of 350-400 vendors and crafters who have participated in our events or who want to participate in the future.

To become a vendor at a future event, you must take the following steps:

1. Join the database of vendors. This is now done with an online system. Go to our online system here: http://fffreg.perfectionsgroup.com/CompanyCreate.aspx and fill in your company profile. There is a step by step visual tutorial of how to do this if you need it. Click here for the tutorial.

A legal name and a phone number are required to do business with us. Leave out either and expect your listing to be invalidated. If we are going to do business together, these things are a must. If you have to maintain a secret identity or stay in the closet, then going into business as a fetish vendor at high profile events is probably not a good idea for you. Be sure you include a valid email address, too.

2. Next, add yourself to our email announcement list and maintain your subscription yourself if you have to change your address. Visit the link

http://neleatheralliance.org/mailman/listinfo/fff-vendor_neleatheralliance.org and add yourself to the list. That way you will begin getting announcements about upcoming shows right away.

3. Watch your email for announcements from the email list. Make sure you have white-listed email from “fff-vendor@NELAonline.org.” The email announcements will be the only way for you to know when registrations are being accepted for various shows.

4. When an announcement does go out, you will be able to go back to your online profile and register for the show announced. Do NOT try to pre-pay or pre-register for a fleamarket that is not yet open for registration.

5. Stay on the list by maintaining a good relationship with us. Since 1992 very few vendors have been actively banned from our shows, but it does happen once in a while. Repeatedly bounced checks, willingly selling illegal items after being told not to, and bringing live goats into the show are some of the reasons the banned vendors were not invited back. (Ask Cecilia to tell you the goat story some time.)

We do our best to take care of you, the vendors, in every way possible. So please follow our rules and keep the FFF manageable.

The rules are pretty simple:

• No nudity.
• No unauthorized cameras/photography.
• No smoking and no open flames.
• No live animals or non-human pets.
• No children, not even infants — you must get a sitter.
• Yes, all booth workers must be 18 years of age or older.
• No sex in event areas. (Get a room!) Light demos are OK.
• No postering or flyering in the hotel or venue without permission
• No flyering in front of other vendors’ booths or public areas.
• You are responsible for any damage to property, carpet, painted walls, etc…
• Bounced checks or credit cards incur a $20 fee.
• Payment in full including bounce fees is due before you can vend.
• No vending of controlled substances or items illegal in the locale of the event. It is YOUR responsibility to check the legality of items. For example, some areas of the country do not allow the sale of needles or knives of certain kinds.
• Be polite to your fellow vendors and volunteers.

A final word about the “jurying” of our shows. We are always working to ensure a good mixture of products and styles on sale without too much duplication. Only the Providence and Boston shows right now need strict jurying because of the intense competition for space, while our other shows are not quite as difficult to shoe-horn everyone in.

Corsets and floggers tend to be the most over-subscribed items, and the vendors who have been supporting us the longest have priority into shows. We also tend to give priority to crafters who make their products themselves over those who re-sell from a variety of sources. Many factors go into our decisions on who gets in, including uniqueness of product, seniority of a vendor at our show, quality of crafting, and our previous history with that vendor as far as the ease of working with them (i.e. bounced checks, following load in and load out directions correctly, etc.). We’re pretty reasonable people and we always do our best to accommodate as many vendors as possible! Just because you are a new vendor doesn’t mean you won’t get in. Variety and keeping the selection fresh are also on our minds. Thanks for adhering to the rules and procedures.