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Scalping at Met Life Giants Games

DannyDimes : 9/7/2021 10:15 pm
I grew up in NYC and used to scalp all the time at the Meadowlands. Living 6 hours away I haven't been to Met Life often and have never scalped. I'll be coming up for the Atlanta game. Any ideas/suggestions about where to find scalpers? Anything I need to know? Thanks all!
I believe everything is mobile now  
nygiants16 : 9/7/2021 10:22 pm : link
i dont know if there are paper tickets anymore, probably better off looking on ticketmaster and getting tickets
All digital  
bronxct1 : 9/7/2021 10:24 pm : link
You may be able to find someone who’s selling and will transfer them to your phone in the lot but it seems like way more of a hassle vs going on one of the ticket exchange sites. You can wait close to game time as seller will start dropping prices. If you’re coming all that way just buy some tickets and enjoy the tailgate
Stub hub and digital tickets  
Matt in SGS : 9/7/2021 10:45 pm : link
have pretty much ended the old scalper market that you are talking about. Guys walking around in the lot saying "who needs tickets" is long gone.

I do miss the guys on my drive up to the Stadium in the 80s & 90s who held up signs that said "I Need Tickets" along route 17. My father used to joke that the bigger the game, the further out up Route 17 we'd see those guys standing on the side of the road.
Interesting...  
DannyDimes : 9/7/2021 10:47 pm : link
I've scalped baseball game tickets 3-4 times this season. Definitely less scalpers then there used to be, but sill a handful...
RE: Stub hub and digital tickets  
Route 9 : 9/8/2021 1:35 am : link
In comment 15355689 Matt in SGS said:
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have pretty much ended the old scalper market that you are talking about. Guys walking around in the lot saying "who needs tickets" is long gone.

I do miss the guys on my drive up to the Stadium in the 80s & 90s who held up signs that said "I Need Tickets" along route 17. My father used to joke that the bigger the game, the further out up Route 17 we'd see those guys standing on the side of the road.


Lol. I can picture all of those guys in my head still to this day. The last time I saw anyone was one guy standing out in the pouring rain was the 2017 Rams game. Just one guy who was soaking wet holding soggy tickets. Hahaha.

And hahaha scalping Giants tickets. Yeah. I think it's safe to say that those days are done ... especially given how bad this team has been in the past close to 10 years.
It portrayed a negative  
Pete in MD : 9/8/2021 2:04 am : link
stereotype of indigenous people and was therefore banned.
RE: Stub hub and digital tickets  
mattnyg05 : 9/8/2021 6:28 am : link
In comment 15355689 Matt in SGS said:
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have pretty much ended the old scalper market that you are talking about. Guys walking around in the lot saying "who needs tickets" is long gone.

I do miss the guys on my drive up to the Stadium in the 80s & 90s who held up signs that said "I Need Tickets" along route 17. My father used to joke that the bigger the game, the further out up Route 17 we'd see those guys standing on the side of the road.


My dad would roll down the window and yell “I don’t!”
This is how bad it's gotten...  
BamaBlue : 9/8/2021 7:15 am : link
someone broke into my car on the East side last November. They didn't steal anything... they left two Giants tickets on my dashboard.
RE: This is how bad it's gotten...  
Route 9 : 9/8/2021 7:22 am : link
In comment 15355754 BamaBlue said:
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someone broke into my car on the East side last November. They didn't steal anything... they left two Giants tickets on my dashboard.


Could you actually keep a straight face trying to resell Giants tickets to someone? I couldn't.

That would take some real skill getting anyone on this planet elevated enough to actually want to go and see an Evan Engram/Daniel Jones captained team lol
I actually think it's kinda sad.  
redwhiteandbigblue : 9/8/2021 7:29 am : link
During the 80's-90's it was the only way to get tix if you were not a STH. I used to scalp 6-8 games every season for almost 20 years. The guys along RT 17 South from Hasbrouck Heights to Carlstadt used to recognize my cars and waived me in. Most had at least 8-10 tickets apiece. When ticket websites came into being I found scalping along RT 17 much cheaper and better seats.

I have very fond memories of those years. Sat all over the stadium, almost exclusively between the 20's and met tons of great people. It was a fun time. Especially during the LT years.

Toughest tickets to get back then we're the Monday Night games back when they were a novelty.

Kinda miss those days even though I have been a STH since 2010.
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Route 9 : 9/8/2021 8:21 am : link
You know you bring up a good point. Even when the Giants were bad in the 90s (Dave Brown era) tickets were hard to come by.

I think those were still the days when you had to "know someone" just to get tickets, or be given the opportunity to.
RE: RE: This is how bad it's gotten...  
DannyDimes : 9/8/2021 8:23 am : link
In comment 15355758 Route 9 said:
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In comment 15355754 BamaBlue said:


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someone broke into my car on the East side last November. They didn't steal anything... they left two Giants tickets on my dashboard.



Could you actually keep a straight face trying to resell Giants tickets to someone? I couldn't.

That would take some real skill getting anyone on this planet elevated enough to actually want to go and see an Evan Engram/Daniel Jones captained team lol


LOL but it doesn't work that way. I went to an Orioles game this year versus the Mets and there were 5-6 scalpers outside selling tickets below face value. Same for Skins every year when they we 4-12 or 5-11 every year.

For decades the unsold tickets on the 3rd party market were dumped at the games to scalpers...
There is a StubHub retail store in Manhattan  
Adam G in Big D : 9/8/2021 8:51 am : link
1412 Broadway, New York, NY 10018

+1-866-788-2482
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Route 9 : 9/8/2021 9:16 am : link
Ya those ticket demands are for New Yorkers who moved out of the area.

Dude. I went to the Giants Redskins finale game in 2017. There had to be less than 10k people in that stadium. Lol.

Plus a good chunk of the crowds at recent MetLife games are away fans, anyway. So yeah, I guess you are right there is a demand for Giants tickets .... to visit as an away fan to see an easy win.

Maybe there are a few young fans out there who haven't been to their first game yet and would be excited to go? But with that stadium and given the team's lack of success lately? It's a hard pass for me.

I think it was 2017 when the Giants playe Dallas at home. Oh my God. The amount of Dallas fans. They just kepy growing and growing at the end. None of them even needed to move down or anything at the end of the game. Maybe 80% of the bottom bowl was filled up with those goofs near the end haha.
take it from someone who was scalping tickets  
djm : 9/8/2021 3:44 pm : link
from way back in the late 80s through the earlier parts of this last decade. BUYER beware. It is so easy to sell fake counterfeits these days, and there's little to no way of knowing until you bought fake shit. Unless you can get the fucker to walk you up to the ticket door, assume it's fake.

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