I was in watching the countdown from 11am onward. At 11:59 the counter started asking really weird and flashing between different numbers. Finally at noon, nothing. I waited for a minute, opened another browser & nothing was loading. Finally got the button and clicked it & it was sitting there for a...

Last year I decided I was going to skip a cooler, but I still really wanted fresh fruits and veggies. All of these worked out well and by choosing a variety of ripeness-levels I was able to have fresh things throughout the week. avocados (avocado + tomatoes or jarred salsa makes people extremely hap...

It really comes down to the fact that having a ticket now allows a person to decide later whether to attend or not. Also, that tickets do not depreciate in value, means that there is no reason not to secure a ticket now. Even if the original purchasers aren't the ones who will use the tickets, the ...

Those are facts, but they aren't really the full story. How many of those potential "ticket desires" actually translate to people that would show up at the event this year if the ticket supply was infinite? Again, you're taking facts and speculating, and now you're speculating on something that sim...

I think the BORG needs to put effort into transforming BM from a festival-following crowd to an art students crowd. I think many young artists would benefit in breaking down personality blocks as a result of BM experiences. This is very much so me. I had been making art all my life, but it was depr...

It's all speculation, whereas the FACT is that there were 73,000 registrants in a sale with only 30,000 tickets, and, even if the " One Person One Ticket " suggestion (that, IMHO, is stupid) that keeps floating around had been implemented. more than half would have come up empty. With the actual re...

That, I'd say, would be an issue (like scalping) that would be resolved by simply making tickets 100% non-transferable except signficantly below face value, albeit resold at face value through STEP. Shit happens, I know, but at the same time there are enough people dedicated to wanting to go who ca...

That is not a fact. This has happened in past years. I know because I know of people that panic purchased tickets this way because they were not able to secure them through other vetted means and despite me poo-pooing it, they wanted the ticket and so they paid. Also if you even just read in this t...

The only thing that would reduce scalping, yet not increase your chances at getting a ticket, and in fact would probably decrease individual chances, would be to tie an ID to a ticket. Look that one up in the search bar here, and you'll see countless pros and cons on that one. The fact is that peop...

I would disagree with that statement. Ticket procurement has been the biggest pain in the ass for me with regards to the event. I don't blame anything other than supply and demand. But I think playing down the ticket getting process isn't helpful. The work that goes in to planning and building a ca...

It's just a matter of huge numbers of people and an imperfect ticketing system... any meaning you derive is of your own design. Hopefully you'll keep making art no matter what. ((commiseratin' hug)) No worries, I won't stop creating, I just thought for a while that Burning Man would be a good place...

Nothing missing or to misunderstand, there's just lots of people going after a limited resource. And every year since 2011 has been a de facto lottery, as explained on another thread. There is no true "first-come/first-served" ticketing system when tens of people hit the servers at literally the sa...

I feel like there's something missing or I don't understand something about tickets. So in lottery years (aka this year and 2012) I was unable to get ticket in the main sale. Fine. But I really cannot wait until the Last minute sale and possibly not even STEP to make sure I have a ticket. Last year ...

late wrote:VERIFIED: did not work with Firefox, worked in IE just fine (after 25 minutes trying in Firefox *derf* lol)

Same experience.

Thanks Burning Man! I don't think I've ever been able to say that using IE solved my problems before today!

How do you know if you are in the waiting room? I keep clicking on my link and the page I get is exactly the same as the one I got when I clicked last night....

I know that turkey bacon is sacrilegious to some, but we gotta do what we gotta do sometimes... With that said, there is currently a turkey bacon recall on some Oscar Mayer products (no this isn't a joke.) http://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/recalls-and-public-health-alerts/recall-case-a...

Thanks so much offarock! I've been missing that soundtrack greatly the last couple days.....