-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Despite efforts to keep people from profiting from Tuesday 's public memorial service for Michael Jackson , scalpers online Monday were asking as much as $ 9,000 per ticket to the free event . Free tickets to Tuesday 's memorial service for Michael Jackson have appeared for sale online . Dozens of listings selling vouchers for Jackson tickets appeared Monday on auction site eBay and Craigslist , the classified ads site , prompting complaints from Jackson fans and others who felt the sales were inappropriate . `` You people trying to sell these tickets should be absolutely ashamed of yourselves , '' said a Craigslist user in a post Monday morning . `` Please flag all of these money-grabbing opportunists ... if you 're a true MJ fan you wo n't give money to these parasites . '' Organizers of the public memorial service , scheduled for Tuesday morning at the Staples Center arena in downtown Los Angeles , made 8,750 pairs of tickets available through an online lottery . But demand far outstripped supply , as about 1.6 million fans registered for a chance at the tickets . Winners received an e-mail Sunday directing them to print vouchers and bring them Monday to Dodgers Stadium , where they were to receive tickets and have a nonremovable wristband placed on their arms . Those entering the Staples Center on Tuesday must have wristbands to match their tickets . But that did n't stop some people from trying to sell their vouchers to anyone who could make it to Dodgers Stadium by 7 p.m. Monday . One pair of tickets attracted a bid of $ 275,000 on eBay before the listing was removed . It was difficult to tell whether the offer was serious . Both eBay and Craigslist took steps Monday to thwart the ticket sellers . `` eBay will not allow Michael Jackson memorial service tickets to be listed on the site , '' the company said in a statement . `` If found , eBay will remove them from the site immediately . '' By Monday afternoon the number of listings for `` Michael Jackson memorial tickets '' on eBay had dropped to a handful , and the site was removing them shortly after they appeared . Learn more about plans for the memorial '' Craigslist allows its users to flag ads they find inappropriate , and ads receiving enough negative flags are automatically removed from the site . Many ads proffering Jackson memorial tickets were removed shortly after they were posted Monday . Among those was a listing posted by a man who identified himself only as Peetey , 29 , of Venice Beach , California . He was asking $ 8,000 for a single ticket ; the winning bidder would accompany his girlfriend to the service , he said . The ad was removed within 15 minutes , he said , but that was enough time for five people to call with interest . When contacted by CNN , Peetey said he sees nothing wrong with selling a free ticket to a memorial service . `` We live in a capitalist society where money is what really speaks , '' he said . `` I 'm not trying to make a huge profit . I 'm not trying to take advantage of anybody . '' Peetey , who did not want his last name used for fear of backlash from Jackson fans , said he would go to the memorial service if he ca n't get at least $ 5,000 for the ticket . His girlfriend won the lottery-issued tickets , he said , and will attend the event . `` I want to go , and I have a large desire to go , but if I can get a lot of money , especially in this economic climate , it does n't seem wise for me to sit there for two hours if I can get $ 10,000 for the ticket , '' he said . Daniel Moreno , 33 , of Murrieta , California , said people trying to sell the tickets are disgracing Jackson by trying to capitalize on his death . `` That kind of sucks , you know . The guy 's dead , '' said Moreno , who posted a statement on Craigslist vowing to flag any listings selling Jackson memorial tickets . Moreno said those with tickets should give them away if they do n't want to attend the service . `` I do n't have $ 1,000 to spend on this ticket and would n't want to spend $ 1,000 on this ticket , '' he told CNN . `` And I would n't want to be in the presence of someone who 's trying to sell the ticket because I 'd be arrested for battery . '' By 2 p.m. -LRB- 5 p.m. ET -RRB- , organizers had handed out more than 6,400 pairs of tickets . Los Angeles police Capt. Bill Murphy said the distribution process was going smoothly as of early Monday afternoon . One person tried to pass off a photocopied voucher and was ejected , Murphy said . CNN.com 's John D. Sutter contributed to this story .