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The issue is that when a business buys the product they are not actively hurting the supply for said product and therefore do not artificially inflate the price.

When scalpers buy the product they are hurting the supply and inflating the price.

It's like buying all the hand sanitizer during the pandemic and reselling it for x10 because people are crazy over it.

For instance, let's say I am a multibillionaire and I decide to buy all of the cancer medication in the world and now I can resell it at any price I want. Of course there are laws and such that would actually prevent me from doing this but that's just an extreme example of the underlying problem people have with scalpers. While in the past smaller instances of it like with video games could be seen as simple entrepreneurship it's developed into a the rich get richer and everyone else suffers mentality.