As you might know, the World Cup tickets were deemed to be non-refundable and non-transferable. The fact changed.

Fans with tickets for the 2006 World Cup will be allowed to sell them back or, under certain circumstances, transfer them to another supporter, the German organising committee said on Thursday. Sale or cession of tickets that have already been purchased will be possible from March 27 only through the official fifa.worldcup.com website, organisers said in a statement.

It will be possible to transfer tickets only to members of the same family or under exceptional circumstances such as death or illness.

“We had to acknowledge that we could not stick to the rule that tickets could not be transferred,” said organising committee vice-president Horst R. Schmidt.

“However, we expect that 99 percent of the ticket holders will turn up at stadiums and that transfers will remain an exception.”

Resales will have to be performed through the official website, and the organisers will then make those tickets available to new buyers.

Organisers will charge 10 euros for a transfer while new buyers will pay 15 percent more than the original price.

Not a bad thing, after all.

Source: reuters