<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Globaliser:
You might be interested to know that there are some tickets to sports and arts events which are non-transferable. For example, season tickets to a football club's matches can be non-transferable. Also, if you buy a ticket for the Bayreuth Festival, your name will be printed on it and the opera house may demand to see ID to ensure that only the named ticket-holder gets in.</font>
But if you don't show up, they don't reprint your ticket and sell it to someone else.