Yankee Stadium Opening Day tix prices historic free-fall

(Rovell, CNBC): "While everyone looks to the Super Bowl ticket price to gauge the economic environment, there's a much greater example of the havoc that this environment has caused on ticket prices.

• The greatest example is happening in New York, where prices on the secondary market to go to

• opening day at the New Yankee Stadium are plummeting in
• unprecedented fashion.

The average asking price for tickets to the game has plummeted 65 percent in the last three weeks, according to Michael Hershfield, CEO of LiveStub.com. on January 6th, the average asking price on the company's site was $1,101. Today, it's $534.

• "This drop is almost off the charts," Hershfield told us. "I've seen nothing like this. This is like National Enquirer-type shocking numbers."

• Herschfield said that the appetite for the high end ticket appears to be waning as banks and hedge funds layoff and disintegrate."...via Neil Best Watchdog

(Someone alert the media, especially Ed Randall).

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