Vendor application

1. Only one(1) business per space: unless other arrangements have been made with additional costs. Vendors may ONLY promote the business they included on the application. 
Only those who sign up are able to work event, you cannot assign someone else to "cover" or "take over" your spot for you. If a partnership, both names need to be on agreement & signed. Businesses with more then two people and too large of a selection of unlike or multiple products will not be accepted. Booth or table sharing and/or subletting is not allowed. Each vendor must purchase their own booth or table for their business. Your business must only solicit/sale from your booth, no walking around the event to solicit/sale your product.

 2.Payments:  payment due at time of sign up.

 Door Prizes: This is Holiday Themed event. We are also asking for each vendor to have a door prize(one item) for the event. The door prizes will stay with you at your table and the winner will come to you to collect it. It can be a small something. It’s just to add some excitement to the event.

 3. Set up: starts at 8:45am for Outside 10x10 spots. No earlier. 
Inside Vendors will be let in at 9am. No earlier.
Vendors are solely responsible for manning, operation, set up and break down of your booth. You must leave the spot as you found it, free of any trash. 
All vendors must stay set up until the end of the event. Failure to follow these rules will result in rejection from future events.

Smoker- If you are a smoker, you must smoke away from the entrance of the building and away from the outside vendors.

 4. Vendor Parking: You may pull into the parking lot to unload, but unless disabled, you must move your vehicles to the street parking, Canal Street Parking, under the bridge next to the Brannon Center Park, or City of Commerce parking lot. This is required!!!
 
5. Photographs: Vendor allows For the Love of Shopping event coordinators to take photographs of the booths and vendors and use these photographs for advertisement or promotion purposes.

6. Professionalism: Anyone behaving in a rude or unprofessional manner will be asked to leave and will not be permitted to participate in future events. Please dress appropriately and professional, nothing that would be seen as offensive.

7. Weather: These are rain or shine events, In any case that the weather prohibits the event, no refunds will be issued.  For the Love of Shopping Events is not liable if weather or other conditions prevent the vendor from attending and fulfilling the contractual obligation. No refunds will be made for weather, accident, health or other causes for non-participation.

8. If your business closes or you stop selling your product, the same rules apply. You cannot
 sell your spot or sublet to someone else. 

9. Clean Up: All Vendors must leave the space as they found it, free of garbage, food, debry. If a vendor, vendors guest or vendors child leaves a mess, stains the rug, damages their space in any way which results in a charge to For the Love of Shopping's Event planners, you will be invoiced for the amount the venue charges and it must be paid in full within 24 hours. 

10. Vendors aren't limited in vending at different event company events BUT we strictly uphold NO SOLICITING FOR OTHER EVENT COMPANIES at or during our events. Violations will terminate subsequent contracts. Vendor are to be Professional which includes no defamation of For the Love of Shopping, LLC, it owners and volunteers at an event or after. If there are any conerns, they are to be brought to For the Love of Shopping, LLC.

Vendor Waiver
 *For the Love of Shopping, the venue and their management and their participants, officers, agents and employees will not be held responsible for any liability claims, fire, theft or damage to person, business or products, including attorneys fees that may occur at the event. 

If an event gets cancelled due to a pandemic outbreak or Mother Nature/Act of God/Weather , we will do our best to reschedule for a future date if possible, but no refunds or credits will be issued in this situation. If we are able to reschedule and/or you cannot make the rescheduled/rain date, no refunds or credits will be issued.

 By signing this Agreement, I voluntarily agree to assume all of the foregoing risks and accept sole responsibility for any injury to myself including, but not limited to, personal injury, disability, and death, illness, damage, loss, claim, liability, or expense, of any kind, that I may experience or incur in connection participation in this event. 
On my behalf, I hereby release, covenant not to sue, discharge, and hold harmless For the Love of Shopping Event planners, it employees, member, agents, volunteers and representatives, of and from all claims, including all liabilities, actions, damages, costs or expenses of any kind arising out of or relating there to.

I also understand and agree that this release includes any claims based on the actions, omissions, or negligence of For the Love of Shopping Event planners, its employees, members, agents, volunteers, and representatives, including if a COVID-19 infection occurs during, or after participation in any For the Love of Shopping Event. I also understand by not signing this release, I will not be able to participate in the event.

Any dispute arising out of this Agreement shall be settled by Arbitration in Florida undeer JAMS. A pre-arbitration mediation must be conducted before arbitration is inititated. If legal action is required to be initiated against
a vendor under this agreement, the vendor will be held liable for all reasonable attorney’s fees, costs an expenses incurred in connection with such proceedings. 

*We do highly recommend having your own liability insurance for the event, but not required.