Dealer Room Table Sales Opens April 2nd, 2007!
As April is just around the corner, we are releasing the Further Confusion 2008 Dealer Room Table Application out into the wild. This is the form you will need to fill out and send back to us with payment, starting April 1st, 2007. That's no April Fool there. It's the real thing.
Dealer Table sales will be First Come First Served and we will be accepting applications starting April 2nd, 2007. HOWEVER, do NOT put that application into the mail before Sunday April 1st, 2007 as anything post-marked prior to 4/1/2007 will be put at the END of the line (In this case, that means we will consider it starting June 1st, 2007, rather than before all the people that did it right).
Example 1:
You fill out your form and pop it in the mail on March 28th, 2007, figuring that way it gets to us on April 2nd, 2007. It gets a postmark of 03/28/07.
We receive your letter and form on April 2nd, 2007. As it has a POSTMARK of 03/28/07, we file it away to be opened on June 1st, 2007 as you Jumped the Gun and sent too early.
Example 2:
You fill out your form and pop it in the mail on Sunday April 1st, 2007, having found one of the small number of post offices in the country that is open on Sunday. Your letter gets a postmark of 04/01/07.
We receive your letter on April 4th, 2007. As it has a POSTMARK of 04/01/07, we add it to the pile of letters with a postmark of 04/01/07. And it will be among the first forms considered as valid for purchasing a table.
Example3:
You fill out your form and pop it in the mail on Tuesday April 3rd, 2007. Your letter is thus postmarked 04/03/07.
We receive your letter on April 5th, 2007. We see the POSTMARK of 04/03/07 and it goes in stack 3, behind those marked 04/02/07 and those marked 04/01/07.
We will be doing our first selection of folks, in post-marked date order starting April 10th, 2007 to give all the letters put into the mail on the first time to make their way to us from those dealers sending them in. We will then open them in POSTMARK order (starting with those postmarked 04/01/07) and start processing orders.
We will notify people by EMAIL as we process the orders. If you wish to be notified by POSTAL mail, include a self-addressed stamped envelope or postcard in with your application and we will let you know using it as to if you got a table. If you do not include a valid email address, nor provide a self-addressed stamped means of us notifying you by mail, you will NOT receive a notification until June, when we will send out a POSTAL confirmation to ALL those that gain a table. A second POSTAL confirmation will go our in December.
Please Note: Sending your letter to us Priority Mail, Express Mail, Courier, UPS, Fed-Ex, does NOT give you ANY advantage. The day we RECEIVE your letter is not the controlling factor here. The Controlling factor is the Date which the delivering service marks the letter as having been SENT. So, spending extra beyond, perhaps, Certified mail, or Return Receipt for your records to show that we did, indeed, receive it, is a waste of money.
The prices for tables this year are:
HALF TABLE - $65.00
FULL TABLE - $100.00
ELECTRICITY - plus $5.00 to the above prices
We will have 85 full tables and 20 half tables that we will be putting on sale. Those interested in a SECOND FULL TABLE will be able to mark the right space on their form. In June we will look over those that have asked for a second table and send out invitations to FIVE of them. Unlike the rest of the sales, second tables will be by invitation only, and will be selected by committee. There is a space on the Table application for explaining why you should be offered a second table.
Those interested in FURRY MARKET PLACE spaces, watch this space in July 2007 for the form and instructions for how to get a Furry Market Place space. They will NOT go on sale until August 2007. They will cost $65.00 and will include one full membership as a part of that price. There will be 26 spaces available and they will be sold first-come first-served.
If you would like to purchase memberships for your assistants, you can either do so through the online registration process found on the front page of this website, or use the Dealer Additional Member form that is available on this page. Include one filled out form per additional member.
If you use the online form, be sure to put in the comments field that this is a Dealer's Assistant and the Name of the dealership they are to be associated with.
Should we run out of space available in the dealer room and still have applications waiting, those dealers that were unable to be admitted to the room will be given the option of being placed on the waiting list. In 2007, the waiting list exceeded 30 persons at one point. And by the time we got to the convention, that waiting list was empty. We either got each person a space in the Dealer Room or the Furry Market Place, or they were no longer interested in space. On Saturday of the convention, 3 Furry Market Place vendors were offered spaces in the main Dealer Room when dealers had to cancel due to personal illness. So just because we may sell out does not mean that there is not a possibility of getting into one of the selling spaces, though it could be a last minute thing.
Every person that purchase space to sell from at the convention MUST have a Sellers Permit from the California State Board of Equalization. Further Confusion can NOT get this for you. You must get it for yourself. Such Sellers Permits are free. We recommend that you acquire your permit at LEAST two months before the convention, to make sure you can get the number to us by the time you get to the convention. We can NOT permit you to make any sales at the convention without providing us with your Sellers Permit number.