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I remember going to flea markets when I was a kid and there were pretty much 3 kinds of dealers: 1, like you're talking about selling lots of very cheap imported toys, tools etc.
2. were professionals which had reserved spaces and would come every week but would sell usually pretty decent secondhand items.
and 3. was people who were just private individuals selling whatever they wanted to. You could set up in any space that was not reserved, first come first served, and the flea market manager would come along and collect the booth rent (I think it was like around $7.00 back in the 80's).
Flea markets would be just huge in Ohio in the 1980's and particularly on Memorial day, 4th of July, they'd often have 3-day long markets.
Today I think too many flea markets have strict regulations like requiring vendors licenses and insurance that it pretty much forbids just an ordinary person with some stuff to sell from participating.
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