Neil Young is gearing up for his 8 week tour of North America with Everest, Wilco, and Death Cab for Cutie. The tour starts on October 14 at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul MN. Currently, Live Nation (the company producing the tour) indicates that Neil Young’s tour will conclude in New York City with a show-stopping performance at the Famous Madison Square Garden on December 15. Neil Young Madison Square Garden tickets are already hot items at Endless Tickets. Neil’s successful 3-month tour of Europe prompted the 19-show tour in the United States and Canada. Eight of the shows will take place in Canadian provinces. Unfortunately, New York fans who wanted to see Death Cab for Cutie at Madison Square Garden, are in for a disappointment. Death Cab for Cutie only signed on for Neil Young shows between October 14^th and November 5^th. The country group Wilco will help Neil finish off the rest of his shows.

When the players take the field on September 21, 2008 it will be for the last time in the current Yankee Stadium. This year is the last season for the stadium, which has been the host of some of baseball’s greatest talents: Yogi Berra, Joe DiMaggio, and of course Babe Ruth just to name a few. The last game will be on Sunday with the New York Yankees vs. The Baltimore Orioles closing out the life of arguably one of, if not the most, historical ballparks in the United States.

The new Yankee Stadium is being built not far from the current Stadium at a cost of $1 billion. More corporate suites, retail space, restaurants (Hard Rock Café) and most likely increased ticket prices will go hand in hand with the new Stadium. Whether one is devastated by the destruction or excited about the construction, one fact remains: Being hell-bent on attending the last game ever at the current Yankees Stadium. Tickets for the last game at Yankee Stadium are selling for big bucks at Endless Tickets. In fact, tickets above the Yankees dugout are selling for over $10,000 each. If you have money, we have the tickets!

Endless Tickets has been operating in and around Missouri for some time now. As such we specialize in the sale of St. Louis Cardinals Tickets. Historically and currently, we carry a large selection of Cardinals Tickets at the beautiful Busch Stadium. Often we sell our Cardinals tickets cheaper than other brokers because we have an extensive network of contacts in and around the St. Louis area to facilitate easy pick up. In addition, sometimes we sell our St. Louis Cardinals tickets at the last minute and/or below face value on Ebay. If you need St. Louis Cardinals Tickets we are the people to call. Our employees are exquisitely familiar with the downtown area and the venue in particular.  

Below is an article entitled: “Ticket scalping: A U.S. open market on the Chinese black market” by John Canzano, Oregonian columnist

Wednesday August 13, 2008, 12:11 AM

“BEIJING - The man tells me to hop on the subway, ride past the stop for the Forbidden City - get off at the Dongdan Station - then look for eight towering, shiny windowed buildings that make up the Oriental Plaza.

"Find building E2," he says.

I'm to ride the elevator to the 19th floor, and make certain I'm not followed, and when I arrive at the receptionist's desk, I'm to ask for "RC and Associates."

Who's RC?

Who knows?

Hey, you want Olympic tickets don't you?

So welcome to the black market, real-life capitalism in a country that outlaws scalping or the resale of tickets for above face value. Also, welcome to the operating offices of a ticket seller that is facing trouble at home, and, if discovered, trouble here.

Beijing authorities arrested more than 400 people in the last week in a ticket sales crackdown, but there's money to be made, so tickets are changing hands all over this city. And you should know that when I walk into the back-room offices, what I see shocks me. It is this:

Americans.

Lots of them.

Three of them are on the telephones, buying and selling tickets. Another is on the Internet, scanning ticket-auction sites. Another is passing out Subway sandwiches and cans of soda to those working.

There are American employees handing off envelopes to Chinese couriers, and others dealing with a steady flow of customers picking up tickets. And in one office, there are mountains of $100 bills on a table, and a man is feeding them into a counting machine that rips through them, "PFFFFFFFFFFFFTTT," making Chairman Mao's face on the bills blur past.

You need tickets?

On the carpeted floor of another office, there are a half dozen stacks of the unmistakable orange tickets sitting out in the open, on the floor. Some of the stacks as tall as a foot high and the Olympic security holograms twinkle under the fluorescent office lights.

Across the hall, a clean-cut 30-something man named Jeremiah Kraft, who says he is the manager of the operation, is sitting behind a desk, hammering numbers into a calculator. He's meeting with two local office clerks, a husband and a wife, who rode the subway here trying to sell a pair of tickets to the sold-out Rhythmic Gymnastics final.

They bought the tickets less than $20 each months ago, and want $1,000 now.

"I can't go higher than [$750] each," Kraft said. "OK. I gotta go."

The couple left without selling.

The operation in tower E2 is run by an Austin, Texas-based company called TicketCity. It is an Internet reseller, operating mostly in the United States. And it's among the few agencies working undercover in Beijing.

By the way, if you get online at any of a half-dozen other outfits offering Olympic tickets for sale, there's a good chance you'll still end up here on the 19th floor, picking up your tickets. Those businesses collect a handling fee, then sell the order to TicketCity.

"People are so in the dark about how it works," an employee said.

The law has turned the spotlight on TicketCity back home, though.

The Texas Attorney General's office is suing TicketCity under the state's Deceptive Trade Practices Act, alleging the company sold opening ceremony tickets it didn't possess, and then, failed to deliver them. The company, by the way, says it is "vigorously defending itself" against the claim.

Also, the U.S. Olympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee both said TicketCity is not an authorized Olympic-ticket reseller and anyone who sells a ticket above face value is operating outside the law in Beijing.

Which probably explains why Kraft said, "We'd like to fly under the radar right now." And why the employees here act suspicious and antsy - as if they're expecting a police raid - any time someone new walks into the room. Also, it's why they're going by "RC and Associates," which is one of a few for-profit corporate names TicketCity registered with the Texas Secretary of State's office in the last 15 years.

The operation feels lucrative, and ambitious, but also flimsy- as if everything could be gone in 15 minutes, leaving nothing behind but sandwich wrappers, the desks and the bowl of mints sitting at the reception desk.

The Games organizers sort of caused some of this, yes?

They've unknowingly made TicketCity a short-term fortune by controlling the initial distribution of tickets, making it difficult for foreigners to come to China and steering a disproportionate number of tickets into the hands of locals. So people feel far safer selling to an American company in a tall, beautiful building than to a stranger on the street, who could be an undercover police officer.

The company operating in building E2 has obtained such a large market share of the tickets available that it's now steering prices, even as it's facing legal problems back home.

On ticketcity.com Wednesday afternoon in Beijing, beach volleyball tickets were priced at $280 each, men's basketball tickets at $210 each. And while they're unable to sell opening and closing ceremony tickets, a pair of tickets for today's morning swim session at the Water Cube was priced at $19,998.

You can find Olympic tickets for sale from private parties allover the Internet. But you can also get burned. Or arrested. And thieves and cons know that people breaking the law to obtain tickets aren't likely to contact the authorities if they get duped.

Ironic, isn't it?

What we have here is a Communist government that has helped foster a bit of pure American capitalism, and an old-fashioned black market. The 10 employees on the 19th floor could be arrested today. But if all goes well, the employees of TicketCity tell you they'll rake in "a big score," in Beijing, and then board flights to the United States that will take them out of here a few days before the closing ceremony.

Until then, they're answering phones, counting money and hoping that noise down the hall isn't the authorities.

I've never seen sandwiches eaten with such angst.”

 

As expected, the August 23 showing of WWE Raw in Madison Square Garden is sold-out. Madison Square Garden Tickets consistently sell-out regardless of the performer. WWE Raw Tickets at the Garden went on sale through TicketMaster June 21^st at 10 am. We at Endless Tickets advise our customers to above all ARRIVE EARLY! Madison Square Garden Ticketing officials recommend that patrons arrive at least an hour early. Additionally, increased security measures require that all packages, including briefcases and pocketbooks, will be inspected prior to entry to the venue.

Freddie Prinze Jr, the “She’s All That” star has joined the creative team for World Wrestling Entertainment. Prinze will be involved in aspects of the the USA’s “WWE Monday Night Raw” and also the WWE’s weekly television and pay-per-view programs. Chris McCumber, Executive Vice President of Marketing Digital and Brand Strategy, stated that “Brining on board an experienced Hollywood writer, actor and producer like Freddie Prinze Jr. will only increase the level of entertainment to millions of viewers and passionate WWE Raw fans every Monday on USA”. According to Vince McMahon, “Freddie Prinze Jr.’s passion, energy and creativity make him an excellent fit for WWE Raw.” To the novice Prinze fan, his interest in WWE Raw is a bit unexpected; however, Prinze is a longtime fan of WWE Raw and even has an inactive Fan Nation profile up on the WWE site. It is hard to predict what Freddie’s effect will be on the creative aspect of the show and subsequent WWE Raw Tickets sales. Endless Tickets specializes in WWE Raw Tickets and we look forward to servicing the ticket needs of our WWE Raw fans. 

Robin Williams is preparing for his first stand-up comedy tour in six years.

The award-winning actor and comedian is set to roll out his "Weapons of Self-Destruction" show Sept. 25 in Minneapolis and trek through the US and Canada through the end of the year. The first round of confirmed dates includes multiple nights in Chicago, Atlantic City, Philadelphia, Toronto and Boston.  Endless Tickets has a wide variety of Robin Williams tickets for all of the scheduled dates below.

September 2008
25 - Minneapolis, MN - Northrup Auditorium
26, 27 - Chicago, IL - The Chicago Theatre
28 - Milwaukee, WI - Milwaukee Theater

October 2008
2 - West Lafayette, IN - Elliot Hall of Music
3 - Detroit, MI - Fox Theatre
5 - Columbus, OH - Palace Theatre
10 - Cleveland, OH - Playhouse Square Center
11 - Cincinnati, OH - Taft Theatre
12 - Nashville, TN - Grand Ole Opry House
15 - Greenville, SC - Peace Center
16 - Richmond, VA - Landmark Theater
23 - Baltimore, MD - Lyric Opera House
24, 25 - Atlantic City, NJ - Borgata Hotel and Casino
26 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena
29-31 - Philadelphia, PA - Tower Theater

November 2008
1 - Wallingford, CT - Chevrolet Theatre
19 - Ottawa, Ontario - Scotiabank Place
20 - Montreal, Quebec - Place Des Arts
21, 22 - Toronto, Ontario - Massey Hall
24, 25 - Boston, MA - Orpheum Theatre

Boxing fans must wait even longer for the much anticipated match between Joe Calzaghe and Roy Jones Jr. A recent wrist injury for Joe Calzaghe has prompted the scheduled match on September 20 at Madison Square Garden to be postponed. John Wirt (the CEO of Roy Jones Jr’s. promotional company Square Ring) said Tuesday that Calzaghe's attorney, Gareth Williams, informed him of the injury. "He told me it's an injured right wrist," Wirt said. "I was told that he hurt it on Sunday punching a heavy bag. We're trying to reschedule [the fight] for November, and that works for them, so the injury must be something they feel will heal sufficiently by then." Wirt also mentioned he is talking to officials from Madison Square Garden about an alternate date in November. Fans who purchased Madison Square Garden Tickets for the fight, should be assured of entry to the postponed match in November.

Joe Calzaghe Destroys Chris Eubank In A Stunning Boxing Match - For more funny videos, click here

The Jonas Brothers are coming to Madison Square Garden on August 9, 10, and 11. The popularity of the Jonas Brothers definitely is starting to rival that of Hannah Montana. The Madison Square Garden performances are part of their “Burning Up Tour” which promotes their new album. The Jonas Brothers are wildly popular these days and share many of the same crazed-ticket-wanting Hannah Montana fans. The fury and controversy involved in selling these tickets often makes for a stressful situation for parents of Jonas-Brothers-smitten teens and of course for ticket brokers too. A Madison Square Garden ticket for any event is likely to be valuable and even possibly hard to obtain. Even with 3 showings at the Garden, Jonas Brothers tickets will certainly be in HIGH demand as August approaches.

The all star break is over its time to get back to real baseball.  You know, the games, where your stars stay in past the third inning.  Ok, enough bashing of the all star game.  It serves its purpose but real baseball fans care about the pennant race and their team making the playoffs.  That’s why Cardinals fans are scooping up St. Louis Cardinals tickets faster than ever.   The St. Louis Cardinals started off the season with low expectations, with most figuring they would finish in the bottom half of their division.  Now that the Cardinals have a chance to make the playoffs,  games at Busch Stadium are starting to sell out and Cardinals tickets are becoming harder and harder to get.  St. Louis Cardinals tickets are becoming especially tough to get for people who need odd numbers or large groups.  It’s imperative that you get your St. Louis Cardinals tickets now if you plan on attending a game this season.  You don’t want to be the one explaining to the wife and kids that you couldn’t get tickets while the neighbors are at the ballpark enjoying the game.

Question 1: Why are the tickets above face value?

Answer: Endless Tickets acquires tickets on a speculative basis and we are sometimes unable to sell all of our inventory and are forced to sell the tickets for well below the cost of obtaining them. Therefore, the risk involved in obtaining tickets to popular events is represented in the final price of our tickets. In general, the face value of a ticket is usually not a good indicator of the price it would cost you to acquire tickets to the premium events we supply.

Question 2: Why are the prices on these tickets different since the last time I checked the Endless Tickets website?

Answer: The ticket industry is extremely dynamic even on a minute to minute basis. The listed prices of tickets rise and fall very quickly as demand for certain events changes. The take home message: If you find the most amazing Jersey Boys Broadway tickets or WWE Raw Tickets, we suggest you purchase the tickets at that point because they could be gone any minute.

Question 3: What does local pickup, will call, and / or ticketfast email tickets mean?

Answer: Local pickup means that there is a physical business address where tickets may be picked up in person near the venue. This is not the same thing as will-call (which is pickup at the ticket window at the actual venue). Usually local pickup is another ticket broker who operates an office in close proximity  to the theater or ball park. TicketFast or Email Tickets are tickets which can be sent via email. Theses tickets contain a unique bar code which may only be used one time. Often there will be a different person's name on the ticketfast tickets. This is customary when buying tickets from a secondary source (i.e. a ticket broker). The name on the ticket is the name of the person who's credit card was used to purchase the tickets from the box office. As long as the ticket's barcode has not been scanned at the show or game, it is legitimate for entry.

Do you smell what The Rock is cooking?  If you’re a WWE raw fan then you’ve heard that countless times.  This is what makes the WWE so entertaining.  It is like a Soap Opera for men.  Characters develop story lines and fans just can’t get enough.  People come back week after week to see what’s happening with their favorite wrestler.  Then of course a “true fan” cannot wait for one of those big pay per view events to come around every few months.  You know the ones where they charge you $50 or more to watch from home.  Our customers love the events but if they are going to have to pay a bunch of money to watch it on TV, they would rather be at the arena in the middle of the action.  So guess where so many WWE Raw fans will be on July 20th when the Great American Bash comes around.  You guessed it, they will be in the arena as close to the action as possible. WWE Raw Tickets are availabe in a wide variety of prices online.


Matches


WWE Champion Triple H vs. The Edge

World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk vs. Batista

Shawn Michaels vs. Chris Jericho

GAME TIME CHANGE:
Monday, July 21 vs. Milwaukee


The St. Louis Cardinals game time on Monday, July 21st vs. Milwaukee has been changed to start at 6:05 pm, to accommodate the ESPN Monday Night Baseball national telecast.

The gates at Busch Stadium will open at 4:05 p.m. for this game.

St. Louis Cardinals Tickets remain a popular item for mid-west baseball fans.

Jersey Boys is one of many fantastic Broadway Shows that have weathered the stormy economy.  Oil prices keep going up and up and so do the prices of everything else.  In most instances this leads to people spending less on entertainment.  But in this rare instance the Shows currently on Broadway seem to be so good people can’t resist.  Jersey Boys for example, which opened at the August Wilson Theatre on November 6^th 2005, is a consistent sell out.  It won the Best Musical at the 2006 Tony Awards and continues to draw strong praise from critics.  Along with Wicked they have teamed up to bring in record crowds.  Last week Broadway as a whole sold over 20 million dollars in tickets.  This was more than last year’s sales during the same week.  So if you plan on attending this Broadway show get your Jersey Boys Broadway Tickets early because they look like they will continue to be scarce in the future. Find Tickets.

Professional wrestling fans in New York are jumping for joy again! Given the success of the WWE's Royal Rumble this past January,
the WWE has announced that it will return to Madison Square Garden this summer beginning on August 23, 2008.
Scheduled events include: World Heavyweight Championship, Steel Cage Match, Intercontinental Championship, and the World Tag Team Championship.
Madison Square Garden tickets are always a hot item and as such WWE fans should expect to find it difficult to acquire tickets for this summer's matches. WWE events at The Garden are far-and-few-between, especially considering the "rocky" relationship between the McMahons and MSG.
 

World Heavyweight Championship
CM Punk vs. Batista

Steel Cage Match
John Cena vs. JBL

Intercontinental Championship
Kofi Kingston vs. Kane

World Tag Team Championship
Cryme Tyme vs. Ted DiBiase/Cody Rhodes


Chris Jericho vs. Shawn Michaels

WWE Raw is also an insanely popular phenomenon. Endless Tickets has a wide variety of WWE Raw Tickets.

The New York Giants announced this week that they will  institute  the  Personal Seat License  system for  their season ticket holders  at the new  stadium . The  "NEW" NY giants stadium is set  to  open before the 2010 season. It is not surprising that the Giants  elected to utilized the PSL system to fund the construction costs of the stadium .  Many  new stadiums including MLB stadiums  like the St. Louis Cardinal's Busch Stadium  are built with  PSL proceeds  from loyal season ticket holders. St. Louis Cardinals Tickets are  one thing but NFL  tickets are quite different in terms of pricing. The New York Giants plan on charging  from  $1,000 to $20,000 for  their PSLs. Luckily most of the tickets in the upper bowl will  only be $1000! 

The St. Louis Cardinals finished up the first week in June on a hot streak.  They have not lost a series since the middle of May.  Their pitching staff has been better than average to this point and their offense has been good enough to win.  These are just a few reasons why the Cardinals are set to contend for the National League Central Title.  Their schedule gets very intriguing over the next few weeks.  The MLB leading Cubs come to town on the forth of July weekend. St. Louis Cardinals fans know they are bound to see fireworks in more than one way that weekend. That is one reason St. Louis Cardinals vs Cubs Tickets are so tough to get. There are two traditional rivals that are in first and second place in their division.  It’s the perfect recipe for people looking to resell tickets. So if you plan on heading to Busch to catch a game we recommend looking to get tickets weeks in advance.  Fans sometimes can get better deals by waiting but one runs a risk of not getting to sit in good seats.  There is a balance between waiting and buying now.  The smart way to make your decision is to buy if you see tickets that you can’t live without.  Because if they are the last tickets in a section there is a good chance they could be gone any minute.  If you have any questions about market prices call one of our ticket professionals 800-519-6856 and they will gladly tell you the state of the market without pressuring you to buy.

Despite the current less-than-favorable economic environment we live in, fans of the hit Broadway musical Jersey Boys are "show-going" in full force. In fact, Jersey Boys Broadway Tickets consistently remain in the top 10 overall best sellers list. Jersey Boys is a musical based on the lives of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons and was introduced on Broadway November 6, 2005 at the August Wilson Theatre. For the week ending March 30, 2008, Jersey Boys Broadway tickets racked in a whopping $1,160,319. Given the success of Jersey boys on the Broadway market, it is likely that this show will be expanded to include new cities during the 2009 season. A complete list of Jersey Boys venues for 2008:

• Au-Rene Theater - Broward Ctr For The Perf Arts (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
• Benedum Center (Pittsburgh, PA)
• Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre (Orlando, FL)
• LaSalle Bank Theatre (Shubert Theatre - IL) (Chicago, IL)
• Music Hall At Fair Park (Dallas, TX)
• Palazzo Resort Hotel Casino (Las Vegas, NV)
• Prince Edward Theatre (London, GL)
• Procter & Gamble Hall (Aronoff Center) (Cincinnati, OH)
• State Theatre - Cleveland (Cleveland, OH)
• Temple Buell (Denver, CO)
• Toronto Centre For The Arts (Toronto, ON)
• Virginia/August Wilson Theatre-NY (New York, NY)

Well....maybe that depends on the king; nevertheless, Madison Square Garden is planning a major renovation which includes new, more comfortable seats. In a press release date April 3, 2008 Madison Square Garden announced plans to renovate the world’s most famous arena, "transforming its interior into a state-of-the-art building that will significantly enhance the experience of customers, sponsors, athletes and performers. The renovation, which is projected to cost $500 million and will be paid for in its entirety by Madison Square Garden, will be targeted for opening for the 2011-12 seasons."
Some highlights of the renovation include:

•  Dramatically redesigned 7th avenue entrance

• New, more comfortable seats, with better sightlines that put patrons closer to the action

• New, wider and more spacious public concourses with seating areas and spectacular views to the city

• State-of-the-art lighting, sound and LED video systems in HDTV

• New food and beverage options offering additional convenience for customers and a greater selection

• New bar areas that directly open to the arena bowl

• A new upper level with a fan and group sales party deck with bars and buffets
  
• Many additional new restrooms, with more than 50% more dedicated space
  
• Restoration of MSG’s world famous ceiling

Madison Square Garden's Ticket Office is located in the Garden's Main Ticket Lobby, directly beyond the building's Seventh Avenue Mall, at 7th Ave. and 32nd St. Madison Square Garden has a full schedule of great events lined up for the rest of 2008. New Yorkers will be scooping up Madonna Tickets, Jimmy Buffett Tickets, and Celine Dion Tickets in anticipation of the "construction down times" during the 2009-11 seasons.

On May 8, 2008, the recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, announced her new Sticky & Sweet tour. Madonna is promoting her candy-as-sexual-metaphor album also know as "Hard Candy" during the Sticky and Sweet tour. Although the tour starts in the UK during the mid part of 2008, Madonna will jump the puddle to the US in Early October. The first concert will be on 10/3 at the Izod Center in East Rutherford NJ. Quite possibly the most important and highly anticipated tour dates in the US will be the shows at Madison Square Garden on October 6th and 7th. Madonna definitely knows how to entertain her fans  and is no stranger to Madison Square Garden as a venue. Her Confessions Tour performance at the garden in 2006 was packed with non-stop singing and breathtaking dancing. See a video of this live performance at Madison Square Garden below.  Tickets  to see Madonna  will undoubtedly be some of the most popular and hard-to-get items of 2008. Unfortunately, the deadline to sign up for early access to tickets via Madonna's fan club website was May 1, 2008; however, tickets will be made available to the general public in the USA later in May. A full list of Sticky & Sweet tour dates:

· 10/3 - East Rutherford, NJ @ Izod Center
· 10/6, 10/7 - New York, NY@ Madison Square Garden
· 10/15 - Boston, MA @ TD BankNorth Garden
· 10/18 - Toronto, ON @ Air Canada Center
· 10/22 - Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre
· 10/26 - Chicago, IL @ United Center
· 10/30 - Vancouver, BC @ BC Place Stadium
· 11/01 - Oakland, CA @ Oracle Arena
· 11/04 - San Diego, CA @ Petco Park
· 11/06 - Las Angeles, CA @ Dodger Stadium
· 11/08 - Las Vegas, NV @ MGM Grand
· 11/11 - Denver, CO @ Pepsi Center
· 11/16 - Houston, TX @ Minute Maid Park
· 11/19 - Philadelphia, PA @ Wachovia Center
· 11/22 - Atlantic City, NJ @ Boardwalk Hall
· 11/24 - Atlanta, GA @ Philips Arena
· 11/26 - Miami, FL @ Dolphins Stadium