can't believe this thread is still alive...lets get real people. according to US census data there are 27.5 million businesses in the US of which 21.5 million have no employees. These are small one owner businesses. People with a dream and the desire to work hard and build something that is solely their own.According the the same census data there are more than 150,000,000 million workers in this country... that is 150 million people who DO NOT have the mindset to work for themselves and prefer to just draw a paycheck.If YOU cannot fathom the need to invest $150 (which is NOTHING!, most of you spend that on drugs in a single evening) then you clearly fall into the second category as worker.Business owners have a very specific mind set that is different from workers... they are risk takers, they recognize opportunity and go for it. This is not to say that business owners are better... just different types of people.If you truly want to be a vendor I would suggest you do some reading on starting a small business and see if you have what it takes. I do agree the fee is too small... make it $1000 and then you will definitely separate the wheat from the chafe.TJ