Whatever is or is not being done to combat the scalpers, the ultimate victims are people like German tourist Eveline Schuster-Stahl.

She told China Daily that she and her husband had gone to Beitucheng to look for tickets to "anything over the next few days" but that the prices they had been quoted were far above what they could afford.

"We went to Athens and Barcelona, and the tickets there were more expensive, but they were much easier to get," Schuster-Stahl said.

"I just can't understand how come there are so many people hawking tickets, while there are empty seats in the stadiums and BOCOG is saying they are all sold out."

A BOCOG spokesman said recently that most of the empty seats were ones reserved for Olympic Families, who had failed to turn up.

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