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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 107825, member: 25&quot;]Sellers can come in a van, they then pay a bit more. The bigger sales have limits on the number of refreshment/fast food vans but the burger and bacon butty boys are probably happy with this because too many outlets and no one covers costs.</p><p><br /></p><p>A fair amount of stolen property probably changes hands, usually stuff from garden sheds like power tools, etc.</p><p>As a seller I have never noticed any personal regulation, although as I mentioned, occasionally the more market trader events will have Trading Standards people around looking for the fake stuff sold by the vanload.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only local law involved is the Town and Country Planning Act, which restricts the amount of time agricultural land can be used for non agricultural use to so many days a year. This is to restrict what could amount to permanent non agricultural use like a caravan park.</p><p><br /></p><p>Perimeter control? well, fields have fences and gates. Crowd control? In the circumstances the crowds control themselves. Insurance, I doubt it. What&#039;s going to happen that the organisers are responsible for anyway. The bigger sales probably have some sort of cover. The real reason these things have been so popular over the years is the lack of formality, you just turn&nbsp; up and sell.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are some restrictions, you&nbsp; cannot sell live animals. That&#039;s all I can think of offhand.</p><p><br /></p><p>We do have specialised informal sales, like auto jumbles and boat jumbles, obviously for those car. motorcycle or marine items, these are far less common.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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