Hello Darklings,
This is a reminder for potential vendors of TDAM events (or any other market or events where you are required to pay a vendor fee), to please keep yourself safe and ensure that you are dealing directly with the official TDAM account.
We have recently heard from another person who gave money to a scammer back in early January, thinking they were booking space with us for an upcoming market.
We have put a variety of safety measures in place to help prevent situations like this from happening, but they all require potential vendors to be aware of what to look for.
As a reminder:
- we only accept applications during specific vendor call windows, and only through the form embedded on our official website – we NEVER use JotForm, Google docs, or any other 3rd party application form
- we only use an official contact@torontodarkartsmarket.com email for all correspondence and payments – we NEVER use gmail, not even a variation of our business name, and we NEVER use DMs on any social network for official business-related interaction
- on social media, we only post from our official Toronto Dark Arts Market accounts. For some Facebook groups that do not allow pages to post, I will share an official TDAM post via my personal account, but all information will specifically reference and link to our official website
- we are in regular correspondence with selected vendors leading up to a market; we send out promo packages, load-in documents, and confirmations of all correspondence you send us, such as for payments or image submissions. This will always be from our official email address.
If you come across a vendor call posting that claims to be TDAM and does not link back to our website, or uses anything other than our official email address or social media accounts, please let us know. We do everything we can to get these accounts shut down, but this is an ongoing fight, and they have a tendency to pop back up again.
To ensure you’re seeing our official vendor calls, you can:
- join the Vendor Mailing List on our website
- subscribe to the Newsletter on our website
- follow us on our official accounts on Instagram, Facebook or Threads
As a reminder, we are not responsible for providing either a spot or a refund to any vendor ripped off by scammers. Please be careful out there and protect yourselves.