A number of Internet sites were offering tickets for last night's eagerly awaited Champions League quarter-final clash between Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona for more than 1,000 euros ($1,200, ufffd842)
The French capital club has said that it had received between 700,000 and one million requests for tickets for the last-eight first leg tie at the Parc des Princes, which has a capacity of just 45,000.
Touts stepped in as club switchboards and the ticket office went into meltdown, selling black-market tickets for hundreds of euros in the vicinity of the ground.
But astronomical sums have also been recorded on Internet ticket sites.
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On auction site eBay, the asking price ranged from 150 euros to 1,400 euros.
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