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If you can't make an appointment at a popular museum, ask a scalper; if you can't buy tickets for your idol's concert, ask a scalper. People often ask for help online - where can I find a reliable scalper? It can be said that everyone has become accustomed to the existence of scalpers. However, this news recently shocked many people: after a media reporter randomly interviewed 30 tourists outside the National Museum, he found that 28 of them had found scalpers to increase the price to enter.

In fact, from the national to the local level, the crackdown on scalpers' ticket grabbing, ticket hoarding, and ticket reselling has never stopped. However, despite the heavy crackdown, the scalper phenomenon still persists, and the world has suffered from scalpers for a long time. Regarding scalpers, there are some long-standing puzzles, and the author has tried to sort them out.

Free museum reservation tickets are resold by scalpers. Source: Visual China

1. Why can’t ordinary people buy tickets, but scalpers can always buy them?

During the summer vacation, many parents want to take their children to visit popular museums or famous universities, but they always find that they can't make reservations. However, they can quickly make reservations by paying a high price to "scalpers". Why do "scalpers" always have tickets that cannot be booked through official channels? According to media reports, "scalpers" have at least the following two methods.