More than 300,000 Olympic tickets were sold despite initial glitches in the online purchase system as the last round of domestic sales started Monday.

A local resident shows his newly-bought Olympic tickets at a Bank of China branch in Fuyang of East China'[s Anhui Province May 5, 2008. The third round of ticket sale based on "first come, first serve" kicked off on Monday, when more than 300,000 tickets were sold nationwide.

  

Earlier in the day, buyers could log in and select tickets but there were snags in completing the transaction with the payment.

  

The situation improved considerably in the afternoon, and the whole process could be finished within 10 minutes.

  

"The website was a little bit slow at peak hours, but it's normal and there's no problem," said Zhu Yan, director of the Beijing ticketing center.

He said the system - at its peak - received 27 million hits in an hour.