scalpers
Markup ticket dealers
Scalpers buy tickets or goods at regular prices and resell them at inflated prices when demand exceeds supply.
The practice is common with concert tickets, sporting events, and limited-edition products: Scalpers were asking three times face value outside the stadium.
The term carries negative connotations of opportunistic profiteering.
In trading, scalpers make rapid small-margin transactions to profit from tiny price movements.
Second sale
- markupAdded percentage for profit
- sold-outNo inventory remaining
- StubHubOnline ticket resale platform
- box-officeTheater's ticket-selling counter
queue · admission · seats · venue · arena · stadium · concert · festival
Exploiting price discrepancies
- speculationUnproven theorizing or risky investment
- hoardingExcessive accumulation of goods
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
- shortageDeficient supply of necessities
demand · supply · flipping · profit · margin · PlayStation · GPU · sneakers
Same-session stock speculator
- stocksOwnership stakes or inventory
- futuresContracts for future delivery
- optionsAvailable courses of action
- spreadTo distribute widely
volatility · momentum · timing · execution · securities · short-term · high-frequency · liquidity
resale
Second sale
box-office · queue · admission · seats · venue · arena · stadium · concert · festival · sports
arbitrage
Exploiting price discrepancies
- speculationUnproven theorizing or risky investment
- hoardingExcessive accumulation of goods
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
shortage · demand · supply · flipping · profit · margin · PlayStation · GPU · sneakers · collectibles
day-trader
Same-session stock speculator
- stocksOwnership stakes or inventory
- futuresContracts for future delivery
- optionsAvailable courses of action
spread · volatility · momentum · timing · execution · securities · short-term · high-frequency · liquidity · position
frontier
Edge of settlement
colonial · gruesome · raids · settlers · conflict · massacre · atrocity · Plains · indigenous · retaliation
- trading floorstrading floor, trading pit, trading pits, pit, floor traders
- gray marketgray market, diversion, resellers, arbitrage, regional pricing
- commercetrade, banking, merchant, imports, sales
- concertsconcert, live show, gig, concert venue, arena
- predatorspredators, hunters, lions, falcon, fox
- black marketblack market, illegal trade, smugglers, contraband, traffickers
scalpersproducers
Those who create goods
promoters · event organizers · wholesalers · manufacturers · buyers
- ticket scalperUnauthorized admission reseller