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Note: As of July 1st, we are SOLD OUT in the Dealers' Room.
Information and documents for the Furry Market Place may be found on the Furry Market Place page
If you would like to purchase memberships for your assistants, please use the online registration form, or use the Mail-in Registration Form. Payment for additional memberships by mail using the Mail In Registration form MUST be made on a separate check from the payment for the dealer table. They will be forwarded to registration and processed separately from your Dealer Table Application.
If you use the online form, be sure to put in the comments field that this is a Dealers' Assistant and the Name of the dealership they are to be associated with.
Every person that purchases 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 you providing us with your Sellers Permit number.
As the Dealer Room and Furry Market Place selling spaces are open only for 3 days of our 5 day convention, selling at our convention falls under a number of sections under Exclusions and Exemptions. However, if you do business at other conventions also in the City of San Jose during the calendar year, we recommend you contact the City of San Jose Finance Department to see if you need one of these licenses. Unfortunately these licenses DO cost money. For our 2008 convention, according to Brenda Charles of Revenue Management for the City of San Jose, After further review, it was decided not to pursue Business Tax Certificates for Annual Convention visitors to the City of San Jose.
For those dealers filing from out-of-state, you may be required by the California State Board of Equalization to also fill out and attach Form BOE-403-B when sending in your Form BOE-400-SPA.
For more information on this, refer to the information included with Form BOE-400-SPA on page 3.
As always, if you have questions about the forms or process related to acquiring a Seller's Permit, contact the California State Board of Equalization's Information Center at 800-400-7115 (AK & HI call 916-445-6362). Word is that you can actually talk to a live person at that number between the hours of 8am and 5pm. If all else fails, call their out-of-state field office at 916-227-6600 or the San Jose field office at 408-277-1231.
They are the final authority on all things related to acquiring the necessary paperwork for us to be able to allow you to sell your merchandise at the Further Confusion event.
What happens if you receive more applications postmarked 'date XX-XX-XX' than you have available tables?
At that point we will revert to a Lottery System rather than the First-Come-First-Served system, and select from random from the stack of applications marked with the same postmark until all remaining tables are filled. Once all tables are filled, sales will close.
Will we be told if we got into the Dealer Room?
Yes, as you are selected (either by First-come, first-served order, or when space is tighter, by random pick) for a space in the Dealer Room, we will send you e-mail with the good news. Make sure your email service isn't blocking '' as that's where the email will be sent from.
What happens if you sell out before you get to my application?
We will add you to the waiting list, and contact you by email with the unfortunate news. We will also ask you for what we should do with the check or money order you sent us. You will have the option of us sending it back to you, or destroying it. Your form will remain on file should space open up at a later time.
I sent in for a Full Table, but only half tables are left? What happens then? We will send you e-mail telling you we sold out of full tables. And, should we have half-tables left after processing the half-table applications from the same postmarked date as your application's, we may offer you a half-table and refund you the difference in the cost of the space should you take the offer of a half table in place of the full table. You will have only 2 days to get back to us with your answer, as we can only hold the half-table out of the pool of available tables for that long.
Further questions? Please email