scalping

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Scalping, dynamic pricing, scalper bots are all scapegoats.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 2022

Scalping has been a major frustration for consumers, as manufacturers like Ford, GM, Sony, and others have wrangled with production slowdowns caused by the ongoing chip shortage.

From The Verge • Jan. 8, 2022

Scalping, thanks to StubHub and the like, had gone semi-straight—what formerly could be a Class D felony was now legit, though still in many ways legally murky.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 5, 2019

Scalping can also benefit ticket producers – the sports teams or performing artists who supply tickets – in two ways.

From US News • Oct. 4, 2016

All the principal Scalping Offices between Cleveland, Pittsburgh, New York, Albany, Rochester, and Lewiston, were stocked with books of tickets reading over our steamer, or to Toronto and return.

From A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River by Cumberland, Barlow