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During the first week several shops opened up on Adrianou Street selling tickets. By the second week Monastiraki Square had become a ticket market. It was illegal to sell tickets for more than face value and for the most part people obayed the law. For many ticket dealers they were just trying to break even since the empty seats had made the first week a disaster. Once the Athenians came back to town from their holidays business picked up.

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