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Buys the thing you wanted at face value, sells it to you at heartbreak value.
means Someone who buys limited goods or tickets purely to resell them above cost for profit.
from From the literal scalp-taking of frontier bounties — the word later sliced thin to mean skimming a small slice of profit off each quick resale, then ballooned into the people who bought all the concert seats before you finished typing your card number.
Wall Street kinTraders who scalp pennies on rapid trades share the name.
Bot armyModern scalpers deploy software to checkout in milliseconds.
Legal grayMany regions ban ticket scalping but rarely enforce it.