SCALPING: Restaurant Reservations

DEFINITION

By Staff Reporters

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Restaurant Reservation Scalping 

The unauthorized online restaurant reservation market works like this.

Third-party platforms directly secure or encourage scalpers to secure reservations at popular restaurants without the restaurants’ permission, and then they facilitate the sale of those reservations for a hefty fee on their websites and smart phone apps.

These reservation scalpers often use bots to quickly secure the reservations online and take them off the market, so the average human customer can’t get access to that reservation without paying an unauthorized third party.

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