ticket touts

Ticket touts are people who buy tickets to events—concerts, sports matches, theater performances—and resell them at inflated prices.

The term is primarily British; Americans typically call them scalpers.

Touting operates in a legal gray area in many places, with some jurisdictions banning it outright while others permit resale with restrictions.

The ticket touts outside the stadium were asking triple the face value.

The practice has moved largely online, where automated bots snap up tickets the moment they go on sale.