This last week I finally got tired of waiting for our shiny new vendor system. Although I’m pretty sure it’s really cool and easy to use and will make registration for vendors easy . . . I just can’t wait any longer. We told vendors May. May came and left and we put more pressure on Sammich to finish it early June. June came and left and when July was half over I finally said that he had until Friday, July 12 (3 more days) to get it done or I was going to open it via email like we’ve done in previous years.

He told me that he would have plenty of time to work on it before Friday and that was the last I’ve heard from him. As of this writing I haven’t heard another thing from him.

So, on Monday, July 15, I sent out instructions to all of last year’s vendors and vendor registration officially opened. It opened to previous year’s vendors first. We also have a couple of “waiting list” vendors that will have a chance at it in a week, and then after a total of two weeks, on July 29, the remaining vendor spots will open to the general public. If all our vendors get back to us sooner, then we will open things sooner, but the point is to give the previous ones a head start. We have an obligatory loyalty to them and we really don’t want to upset any of them.

We immediately received a response from a couple of vendors. Opening is going relatively well. We have over 2 months to fill the Vendor area and many vendors wanting space. =D