Buyers can also pay for "drop checkers", which automatically monitor ticketing sites for new events and pick up tickets automatically based on the users' preferences.
"This is an unqualified box-office record," said Paul Dergarabedian, chairman of Exhibitor Relations, a company in Los Angeles that monitors ticket sales.
The university fills its 87,000-seat stadium for most home games, and the average price of tickets resold online is $345 ,about 6 percent higher than at this time last year, according to FanSnap, which monitors ticket resale Web sites.
Much of the expenses were in police overtime; at times, one-third of the town's police force was monitoring ticket buyers standing in long lines, town officials said.
A small explosion and fire inside O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, the result of what was supposed to be routine electrical work, caused an afternoon power failure that shut security checkpoints, monitors, ticket counters, escalators, elevators and air-conditioning inside two terminals for several hours.
Asked about fears of low sales, he added: "We are monitoring the ticket sales.
The site also can monitor airline ticketing systems for openings of "Rewards seats", and can also suggest when it might not be a good idea to apply Frequent Flyer Miles towards a particular flight.
In an effort to monitor crowd flow, tickets (450 koruna or $22) come with specific date and time stamps.
Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Police's Operation Podium, which deals with Olympics-related fraud, says it is continuing to monitor the internet for ticket touts.
The tickets for Friday's game that are being offered for resale online have nearly doubled in price since Steinbrenner's death, according to FanSnap.com, which monitors StubHub and other ticket resellers.
