scalpers

• auctioneers
• bargainers
• black marketeers
• black marketers
• bootleggers
• brokers
• chapmen
• concessionaires
• dealers
• discounters
• distributors
• e-tailers
• exporters
• fencers
• fences
• hagglers
• hawkers
• horse traders
• hucksters
• hustlers
• jobbers
• merchandisers
• merchants
• palterers
• peddlers
• pedlars
• resellers
• retailers
• salesclerks
• salesmen
• salespeople
• salespersons
• saleswomen
• sellers
• shopgirls
• smugglers
• traders
• tradesmen
• traffickers
• venders
• vendors
• wholesalers

• buyers
• consumers
• end users
• purchasers
• users

• noun
  1. One who scalps, or removes the scalp of another.
  2. One who scalps tickets to popular entertainment events: buying them in advance and then selling them (e.g. online or just outside the venue of the event), often at inflated prices.
  3. A person on an open outcry exchange trading floor who buys and sells rapidly for his or her own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).
  4. A machine for removing the ends of grain, such as wheat or rye, or for separating the different grades of broken wheat, semolina, etc.
  5. A surgical instrument for scraping carious bones.

• The concert was sold out quickly, and soon, scalpers were selling tickets at much higher prices.
• People were upset when scalpers flooded the venue with overpriced tickets.
• The authorities are cracking down on scalpers who illegally resell tickets for major events.
• Fans were furious when scalpers managed to buy up all the front-row seats.
• Several scalpers were arrested for selling counterfeit tickets to unsuspecting buyers.

venders

vendors

dealers

jobbers

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