Interestingly, I just watched a piece on MSNBC TV that showed an area where tons of tickets were being scalped at outrageous prices (I think the number mentioned was 30X face value). There were also plenty of Chinese police/security walking around the area pretty much ignoring the activity.

They had a brief interview with an Italian fellow who had a pile of tickets he was selling. He said it was a public service since if he didn't sell them, there would be even more empty seats than there are now. Well, except for swimming of course.

So it didn't appear much "plugging in" was required, at least not at this venue (don't recall if they mentioned where it was).

Oh, one other item I just recalled. They talked to a Chinese scalper (who spoke fairly good English) and he said all the tickets he had sold had been to foreigners, not Chinese, because Chinese could not afford the prices.