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Straight from the ticketing team at this past weekends all staff meeting.
On Tuesday or Wednesday people who registered will get an email telling them if they got tickets. If they did not, the email will tell you how to register for STEP (secure ticket exchange program)
People who end up with more tickets than then need have the option before the tickets are ever mailed, to sell them back to Burning Man. They get a refund.
Burning Man will take those tickets sold back and redistribute them to people who opt in to the STEP program. You must opt in, it is not automatic
This way tickets people don't want/need stay out of scalpers hands and people looking for tickets need not meet some stranger in a parking with hundreds of dollars in cash. The STEP program will operate up until physical tickets are mailed out this summer.
Then there is still the secondary sale in March with 10K tickets sold the old fashioned way, first come first served.
On Tuesday or Wednesday people who registered will get an email telling them if they got tickets. If they did not, the email will tell you how to register for STEP (secure ticket exchange program)
People who end up with more tickets than then need have the option before the tickets are ever mailed, to sell them back to Burning Man. They get a refund.
Burning Man will take those tickets sold back and redistribute them to people who opt in to the STEP program. You must opt in, it is not automatic
This way tickets people don't want/need stay out of scalpers hands and people looking for tickets need not meet some stranger in a parking with hundreds of dollars in cash. The STEP program will operate up until physical tickets are mailed out this summer.
Then there is still the secondary sale in March with 10K tickets sold the old fashioned way, first come first served.
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Re: Burning Man Ticket Update
Mon, January 30, 2012 - 12:26 PMBob, I love you man, but do you know how wrong this is on so many levels?
The Org died somewhere back in the late 90's or early oughts.
You, of all people, shouldn't be a mouthpiece. A tool. For policy's obviously flawed for a few who trumpet no consumerism on the way to selling out.
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Mon, January 30, 2012 - 4:20 PMThe Org isn't dead.
It just has gout, real bad, and mostly the Org sits in a La-z-boy recliner, and beats Larry with his cane.
Oh, yeah. The Org is alive, if not well, and you really don't want to invite him over for dinner.
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Re: Burning Man Ticket Update
Mon, January 30, 2012 - 3:48 PMThis info isnt finalized it is preliminary information and subject to change and further clarification..
(WOOOPS!!!)
TAKE IT with a grain of playa dust until the real info is posted.
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Wed, February 15, 2012 - 7:38 PMha!
Then there is still the secondary sale in March with 10K tickets sold the old fashioned way, first come first served. -
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Wed, February 15, 2012 - 8:07 PMUh, no, they cancelled the 10K sale. The BORG in its infinite wisdom will choose whom to sell those 10K tickets to. They are keeping the promise of 4K tickets for low income, so 28% of the participants this year will be chosen by the BORG (they pick who to give the low income tickets to) nearly three in ten will be specially anointed rather than self-selected.
Tons of newbies, 4K low income. Not sure I want to be prepared and well stocked out there, it might be good practice for the coming apocalypse, though! -
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Wed, February 15, 2012 - 8:08 PMAny bets on the number of STEP transactions? I'm willing to wager a ticket on zero. -
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Wed, February 15, 2012 - 8:19 PMI am honestly starting to come to the point where I think anyone who has ever gone to the burn should not go this year. Then next year, there will be PLENTY of tickets! -
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Wed, February 15, 2012 - 8:37 PMA bunch of newbies, eh? Well, then, I'm only bringing PBR this year. Although, I may splurge on some Jim Beam for special occasions, like 2nd year burners dropping by.....
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Re: Burning Man Ticket Update
Thu, February 16, 2012 - 5:41 PMCome to the dark side, now that you've seen the truth. Vacate the burn!
The hope and dream is that it will be so hot, so dusty (very little snowpack this year), and so lacking on the usual theme camps, art cars, sound camps and art that all those newbies will hate it. Population and demand will drop, and after a dismal year or two, we'll be able to take the event back. -
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Thu, February 16, 2012 - 6:55 PMLet's be more proactive: tire spikes on 447 by pyramid lake where the shoulders are soft and inviting. Or we could all just drive the fuck up there and make them turn us around at the gate. That would let them feel a little of our pain. -
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Re: Burning Man Ticket Update
Thu, February 16, 2012 - 10:47 PMAll right. Pick me up at Jub Jubs on Wells.
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Re: Burning Man Ticket Update
Thu, February 16, 2012 - 12:06 PM2012, the year Burning Man, "Jumped the shark." -
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Thu, February 16, 2012 - 6:52 PMJumped the snark? -
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Fri, February 17, 2012 - 7:44 AM>>>Jumped the shark?<<< google it.
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Thu, February 16, 2012 - 12:07 PM2012, the year Burning Man.......Jumped the shark. -
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Thu, February 16, 2012 - 11:23 PMbm.tribe.net/photos/6428...f728f294d596 according to Chicken John it happened back in 06 -07
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Re: Burning Man Ticket Update
Fri, February 17, 2012 - 7:51 AMi suspect many will use local means to resell their tickets: F2F via-
craigslist
FB
word-of-mouth
gifting
(and hopefully all at face, plus shipping/handling/processing...).
i think i'd want to see and meet the new ticket holder, wish them a wonder-filled burn, to possibly make a new friend.
recoup the that $7.00 too
