Flipping

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Flipping refers to buying items at low prices and selling quickly for a profit. Flipping is gaining popularity in the NFT space, where people buy and sell NFTs to make a quick profit, especially during the early stages of the projects when there are higher demands.

Flipping (Wikipedia)

Flipping is a term used to describe purchasing a revenue-generating asset and quickly reselling (or "flipping") it for profit.

Within the real estate industry, the term is used by investors to describe the process of buying, rehabbing, and selling properties for profit. In 2017, 207,088 houses or condos were flipped in the US, an 11-year high.

In the United Kingdom, "flipping" is used to describe a technique whereby Members of Parliament were found to be switching their second home between several houses, which had the effect of allowing them to maximize their taxpayer funded allowances.

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