It seems that at least 5% of the tickets sold had not been claimed because of the high prices. Well, it is not entirely unexpected, since 5-6 tickets may easily be priced as high as E1,000. This is not a small amount whatsoever. While you would expect to spend some money, be careful. Better choose first the most important games, then fit the rest as they come.

update: Wandering around the blogosphere I found this post, on some issues regarding the buying of tickets for the World Cup I wasn’t aware of.

Read more here.