And like any marketplace, prices in the ticket world tend to change at a pretty quick pace leading up to the event.
The ECB is now assured a welcome financial windfall from hosting the ICC World Twenty20, and ticket sales are already progressing well.
Even in the Mideast a handful of smaller Persian Gulf states are reminders that openness to the secular world can be a ticket to postpetroleum prosperity.
"Arsenal fans have contributed to this financial health through paying some of the highest ticket prices in world football, " read a statement.
The world's largest online ticket retailer is to stop requiring users to enter hard-to-read words in order to prove they are human.
"Every week when I was making the album, I was reading articles about the demise of dance music - and obviously that affects you somewhat, " he told BBC World Service's The Ticket programme.
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The rough economy is hitting the sports world in more ways than soft ticket sales and weakening sponsorships.
Britain has opted for an airline-style pricing structure, which means it has the widest range of train ticket prices in the world.
Danny Way, arguably the world's greatest skateboarder, was my ticket to Woodward.
As with the women's World Cup, it is focusing on grassroots ticket campaigns, bringing in families, schools and the growing numbers of amateur senior players.
It boasts the highest average attendances in the world, solid governance and oversight and low ticket prices, as well as fast-paced games that are well-suited to TV.
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Last year's World Series winner, the Anaheim Angels, hiked ticket prices 36% and saw attendance jump 33%, despite an awful 2003 season.
As if to echo the explosiveness of its music, this Arizona band has shared the ticket with big acts like Jimmy Eat World and Mae among many others.
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Fifa insisted 2.2m of the 2.9m World Cup tickets have already been sold despite reports of slow ticket sales.
It would give McCain a chance to add an element of diversity both gender and race to his ticket, somebody who's respected around the world, who's something of a rock star in terms of her popularity and diplomat - it's where she first started.
And as the club begins the playoffs in pursuit of its second World Series appearance in three years, machinations in the secondary ticket market show few locals are willing to fork over the kind of money for seats that fans in other playoff markets are.
It also marks China's latest step to win construction projects in the West, broadening from the country's sizable role in big-ticket projects in Africa and other parts of the developing world.
They use a ticket system that allows all Catholic Relief Services employees around the world to request support and receive the help they need.
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However, they may privately be looking with envy at the rest of the world's carriers, which are free to start adding ETS surcharges to their ticket prices.
Nor can Ms Merkel hope for a boost from Germany's staging of the World Cup this summer, which is becoming an embarrassing tale of leaking stadiums and ticket-allocation mishaps.
Benedict communicated to the world with a tweet every few days, regular holiday messages, and two big-ticket encyclicals.
With a major two-lane highway running through it, Mikumi National Park might be one of the only places in the world to offer views of wild animals and grassy savannahs for the price of a bus ticket.
Brown closed his business before moving to New York, giving up the lucrative world of re-selling tickets for the precarious one of freelance writing, but his ticket broker instincts kicked in as he contemplated with despair trying to find an apartment.
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Its speed, rarity (only 13 were built) and high ticket price mean the Concorde's 100 seats tend to be filled by the world's rich and famous.
And certainly not according to her concert ticket sales, which sold out within minutes of going on sale, all around the world.
Godin is one of the most influential business bloggers in the world and he wrote a devastating critique of his experiences on the JetBlue website trying to book a ticket for a flight.
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Those two clubs rank as baseball's two top sports brands (see "The World's Top Sports Brands"), so the incremental value Rodriguez brings in terms of ticket sales and TV ratings is limited.
To save for big ticket items in the future - a deposit on a flat, a baby, a dream world trip - add another 10%.
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"It is in much the same way as you book a movie ticket by phone or online these days using your credit card and then when you get there you access your ticket through an ATM-type machine, " said Will, who is chairman of the World Cup ticketing sub-committee.
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