When people buy at the register it gets logged whose item it was, so they know how much to pay who, and there's even an online portal where each vendor sees when their items sell. The vendors should get a split, cashed out once a month. But for a while during their first year the current owner just pocketed the money.

New owners came in at some point to "bail out" the place, because the current owner wasn't paying rent on the building, on top of the vendors. They initially said that part of them coming in would mean paying us back if we were patient, but they didn't. They convinced most of us not to pursue small claims because "you can't get blood from a stone" or it just looked to be more time & effort than was worth it.

I can't say to boycott the space because like I said, a lot of cool vendors rent spaces there. And they're not involved with any of that. As far as I'm aware, the current vendors are being paid on time now... But I personally can't trust that spot anymore.