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Cheap concert tickets appear to be getting more common in the secondary market making it tough for Ticketmaster to sell full priced seats at the last minute. Ticket brokers have been dropping prices on a variety of concerts throughout the country including the Bruce Springsteen concerts at Giants Stadium.

It didn’t help that Bruce has a five day run there, but ticket brokers have already cut prices in the upper level to $25 a seat and lower level seats for $50 each for tonight’s Springsteen concert. Concert ticket prices across the country are way down this year and many artists are feeling the pinch including Barry Manilow, Jamie Foxx, Ron White and Rascal Flatts.

In the secondary ticket market, many of these artists are barely selling for face value for the premium seats that used to go for double that. Ticketmaster is having a tough time because customers are turning to ticket brokers to buy these last minute cheap tickets at a discount, usually face value or less for a poor selling artist.

It’s no wonder Ticketmaster is pushing the paperless tickets so they can have a monopoly on the resell of concert tickets. Then there wouldn’t be any competition for last minute tickets because nobody but Ticketmaster would be able to resell the tickets. How often do you get a good deal from a company that has a stranglehold on the market?

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will be playing at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, this Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, and there are still plenty of tickets available for all the concerts.

Bruce Springsteen

The best ticket prices for the cheap seats are available on Friday night, which has the most inventory of tickets on sale, followed by the Wednesday night show. There are no front row seats for the Springsteen tour since all of the floor seating is general admission, standing room only. But for several of the shows you can buy general admission Springsteen tickets for less than the face value at Ticketmaster.

With the high unemployment rate in the New Jersey area it’s no wonder ticket sales are down a bit, but that’s good for the consumer because now you can see a great concert by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at a discounted price. Bruce and the band will be back at Giants Stadium on October 8th and 9th, then over to the Wachovia Center on the 13th, 14th, 19th and 20th of October.

The U2 tour makes a stop at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Virginia, this Wednesday, October 1st and like Springsteen the floor seats for U2 are all general admission and on sale for less than the face value of U2 Tickets at Ticketmaster, running $35 for general admission U2 tickets at the time of this post.

There are some very good seats available for U2 in the lower level near the stage, but if you want to stand in front of the stage, you better get there very early! You can catch U2 at the new Cowboy Stadium on October 12th, and the Rose Bowl on October 25th as well as a few other tour dates before they wind up the US portion of their tour.

NFL Tickets are on sale now for the home opening games of the NFL season this weekend and the 2009-10 NFL football schedule is loaded with plenty of great games to see this year. It will be interesting to see if there is a slowdown in ticket sales for the NFL this year after MLB struggled this summer. With fewer games the NFL may get by a little easier, but that may depend on what part of the country you live in, how the economy is rebounding in your area and how well your team is playing.

NFL 2009-10 Kickoff

There are some exciting games on tap this Sunday including the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers game at Lambeau Field, and the Washington Redskins and NY Giants game at Giants Stadium. The Packers played well in the preseason under Aaron Rodgers and hope to get past the Brett Favre era and start a new winning program after last years disappointing season.

For Monday Night Football, it’s the San Diego Chargers vs the Oakland Raiders at Oakland Coliseum. We’ll see just how far JaMarcus Russell and the Raiders have come since last year after a tough couple of preseason games. The Oakland Raider fans deserve better than what they’ve seen the last few years and San Diego doesn’t want to help them out with this game.