Style of Anal Hobbit: Hack Your Way Into Better Seats @ Any Sporting Event
 

So I was taking a shit and going over the tickets at Stubhub looking for some Angels tickets for two Fridays from now. My GF wants one of their draw string backpacks and we really don't want to watch the game all that much. The cheapest tickets are $5.

Then it occurred to me that tons of people won't go to this game and there will be 100's of tickets still on Stubhub even after the 3rd inning. So I got an idea...

What if you buy the tickets, print a fresh copy of the originals to get into the park, then Photochop them for several different seats you DO want to sit in. Perhaps 4 or 5 different sets just in case they DO get sold after you leave for the game. If you have a laptop and a laptop printer you can tailgate in the parking lot until the 3rd inning (the Angels often have partiers hanging out that long that you can have a good time with, but that is a whole different post). Being there that long means you can Photochop just about any ticket on Stubhub and be rest assured nobody is actually going to buy it.

With the new ticket(s) in hand you can then go to sections of the ballpark your $5 ticket wouldn't let you into. Now you can go sit in the Diamond Club perhaps. For $5 a ticket! Nice!

i think they actually scan them and the bar code tells which seat is which

Don't they scan the barcodes of the tickets when you enter?

Why not just buy cheap tickets, then move down and claim unused seats after the event starts like everyone else has been doing since tickets were invented :1orglaugh

Yes, they do scan them. Notice I said to print out the original first so you can get into the park.

As for moving around. Yes, you can often move around the park and perhaps move from the nose bleeds to something better in the second level or even the first level after the dugouts...

But lately at Angels games they check EVERYONES tickets if you even think about trying to sit on the first level between the dugouts. Having the Photochopped tickets means you can produce a ticket to the usher showing you indeed can sit there.

Nobody is letting you inside the Diamond Club (behind home plate) without a ticket. It ain't going to happen. So print one!

I am not talking about buying a $5 ticket to sit in a $25 seat. I am talking about sitting in a $105 seat.