BOYCOTT THE BURN:
Whether you think that the Borg is evil, inept, or a well-meaning bunch of scatter brained artists, the ticket situation is a disaster. Asking them to fix the situation is going to accomplish nothing. Remember, this is the fix they put in to address the sell-out.
What we need is a Burner based do-ocracy solution, and I humbly suggest this:
Don't go. Don't buy tickets from scalpers, don't buy tickets from the Bmorg pool, don't volunteer at the gate, just don't go. Decrease the demand, tank the ticket price, prank the scalpers.
Buying face value tickets won’t do it. You’re still decreasing supply. You need to abstain. Boycott. Don’t participate in the Bmorg sponsored re-distribution scheme.
If you do have tickets, sell them. But not to other burners. Contact the stub-hub, ebay and craigslist scalpers. Tell them you have face value tix to sell, and put them into their hands.
The only way to stop scalping of burning man tickets is to destroy the financial incentives that will always exist as long as demand exceeds supply. If we, as a community, can rally and show the profiteers that Bman tickets are too risky, they’ll stop. It’s up to you, you’re a burner, you make burning man what it is, and by refusing to go this year, you will make it better.