ticket scalpers
Unofficial ticket resellers
Ticket scalpers are people who buy tickets to events and resell them at inflated prices, typically outside venues or online.
The practice exploits high demand for concerts, sports, and theater: Scalpers were asking three hundred dollars for fifty-dollar seats.
The term carries negative connotations—scalpers profit from scarcity they sometimes help create by buying up tickets before regular fans can.
- resaleSecond sale
- markupAdded percentage for profit
- price gougingExcessive pricing during crises
- toutsPromotes aggressively
- brokersTransaction intermediaries
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- predatorspredators, hunters, lions, falcon, fox
- stadiumfield, bleachers, box seats, end zone, dugout
- theater peopleactors, actor, directors, actresses, actress
- black marketblack market, illegal trade, smugglers, contraband, traffickers