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by ssl-3 28 days ago
> Scalping is the fair market price discovery - it is basically a requirement in free trade societies.

This explains why there is always a sea of scalpers milling around outside of every Costco in the United States, selling rotisserie chickens for as high as ten bucks after they bought them for $4.99.

It's basically a requirement, and it's a natural process of price discovery.