Scalpers are illegal, reselling at high prices, changing prices in disguise or increasing prices, or reselling seats, sleeper signature numbers and ticket purchase vouchers, with a face value of more than 5,000 yuan, or making illegal profits of more than 2,000 yuan, which constitutes serious scalping.

Whoever resells ship tickets or ship tickets if the circumstances are serious shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the fare.

In practice, conviction and sentencing depends on attitude, consequences, compensation, surrender, exposure, prosecution, meritorious service, principal offender, accessory, recidivist, attempted, etc. And can be given a lighter punishment.

legal ground

Public security administration punishment law

Article 52 Whoever commits one of the following acts shall be detained for more than 10 days and less than 15 days, and may also be fined less than 1,000 yuan; If the circumstances are relatively minor, they shall be detained for more than five days and less than ten days, and may be fined not more than five hundred yuan:

(1) Forging, altering or buying or selling official documents, certificates, certification documents and seals of state organs, people's organizations, enterprises, institutions or other organizations;

(2) buying, selling or using forged or altered official documents, certificates and supporting documents of state organs, people's organizations, enterprises, institutions or other organizations;

(3) Forging, altering or reselling tickets, boat tickets, air tickets, tickets for cultural performances, sports competitions or other valuable tickets;

(4) Forging or altering a ship's registration number, trading or using a forged or altered ship's registration number, or altering a ship's engine number.