[ceejayoz]

Artists have canceled swathes of tickets for this reason.

https://variety.com/2024/music/news/chappell-roan-cancels-sc...

I've seen quite a few cases of this. Not everyone's money-only.

[freejazz]

And they are free to make the tickets non-transferrable. The Cure did that. Last Phish MSG run the tickets were non-transferrable and I had to use CashorTrade to trade my tickets.