THanks! That's an incredible first answer to receive here from the community. You're welcome! Did you know that SELF-RELIANCE is one of the core principles of burning man? And not just any old self-reliance, but RADICAL self-reliance. Not even attempting to have a ride pre-arranged months ago shows...

It's incredible to me that someone would leave something as important as a ride to the playa up to dumb luck.

People are truly amazing.

Your four wheeled bike is NOT allowed, unless you already received an invite to bring it to the playa as a Mutant Vehicle, and get it registered as such with the DMV. Besides, did you really not consider that a vehicle capable of transporting 4 people might need a special license? A four person vehi...

Hey Justanta, Thanks for the Whore's Smores 3 weeks ago. Nothing beats big ass mashmellows stuck on a dick over a blazing fire. The first couple of bites I complained to the sideshow crew that there wasn't any chocolate. THEN I hit the chocolate and melted with love for you. Thanks. 3 weeks ago eh?...

Highly recommend people get in on the low income applications next year if you qualify. Many of my friends have had great luck.

Thank you for your input! Seems like I shouldn't have too much trouble if I keep my eyes open.

Hi All, My Mom today decided she would like to come to Burning Man this year. I've been trying to get her to come for a few years so I'm excited. She's low income for sure, but unfortunately that's closed. Oh well, if in a month or two I haven't found one, I've decided I'll foot the bill and get her...

Shit guys, looks like google is down. Someone notify silicon valley, they need to know

American2316 wrote: GOT TICKETS! can't wait! After all that finally found an honest person! MUCH♡♡♡ See you on the Playa!

Congrats dude! Be sure to come by Whores' S'mores at 3:30 and H and get a S'more on us!

Oh shit dude. Probably not a good choice for an online transaction. Did the scammer suggest that?

What method of payment did you use? Most have buyer protection...

It just happened again? You should be able to get your bank or whatever payment service you used to reverse the charge due to fraud.

Sorry though, that really does suck.

Well like he said, no one ever gets ripped off on a near anonymous online message board!

Since there are 8 of you, have you considered just creating your own camp? You will doubtless meet cool neighbors no matter where you camp, and with 8 of you, you have plenty of resources, both financial and labor wise, to make a really cool communal space for yourselves. IDK, to me it seems a bit l...

Aww now I feel bad You're welcome.

If you really have to ask this question it probably isn't very safe for you to walk across the street. Do you know this person? Do they have a way of proving legit transfer of ticket? Do you have a way to ensure you can safely give them money? If the answer to these questions is "yes" then why would...

I thought so, too, until I got banned for "challenging" the bad advice. You didn't get banned for challenging bad advice. You got banned for challenging all advice. FWIW, I was annoyed you got banned. Everyone seemed to enjoy those threads but there is one mod on the subreddit who is very overzealo...

Protip sparr: The people on the sub suggesting you do that were being sarcastic and trying to fuck up your burn for laughs. They are almost as good at sarcasm there as people are here :D I thought so, too, until I got banned for "challenging" the bad advice. You didn't get banned for challenging ba...

You fucking ruined the ruse.

The culture jam with the voided ticket list was epic, now it is forever unclean.

Stop interfering with my experience

I am forever ashamed

That seemed like an unreasonable course of action a few days ago, but since not agreeing with the people who suggested I should do that is a big part of why I got banned from the subreddit... yes, that's exactly what I'm going to be doing, although I don't know that I'd skip straight to "grilling"....

Fuck you. Honestly. Idgaf. You're a moocher. Come to my camp but don't expect to borrow my bike, eat my food, or take shelter in my yurt. Ranger my fucking ass. No goodies for you. What in the hell makes you think she is a moocher? She listed a perfectly reasonable supply list for one person suppor...

Just in case anyone else is curious, her low income app was approved today, so they are still working through the applications.

If nobody bites at the asking price, they're going to come down more than that. People have been buying tickets through STEP, BxB threw in 500 more, LIT program is still open, and 1000 more in the OMG sale... This is already happening. Lots of the Pre-Sale and Da Vinci sellers have already lowered ...

A friend of mine completed her application a few weeks back and is awaiting response. Anyone receive a response recently or hear anything regarding low income apps?

Considering I used the 2.8% argument earlier, I don't really have much of a riposte to that, other than to baselessly doubt that the sales on eplaya are a representative number.

Fair enough Eric. I think I've been wanting to rant about this and OP gave me an opportunity, and I definitely went a bit overboard. However, I'm not willing to believe that even a sizeable chunk of the people who wanted to go bad enough to buy a $1000 ticket "suddenly had to cancel", which is why I...

Lot's of people think only scammers buy the presales...

Its not that we think only scammers buy the presales. I think our general position is that peolle should not be allowed to use the presales as an insurance policy to mitigate the risk of the main sale.

Let us all also speculate how many people are discretely "gaming" the system by 1) requesting tickets from their buddies who have a Theme Camp that gets increasing numbers of tickets each year via the Directed Group Sale (29,000 tickets this year), and then buggering off to another campsite, and 2)...

How many people each year do you suppose buy Main Sale tickets as insurance in case they decide to go to BM, but then decide later that they aren't going after all, and then resell their tickets? Based on the number of resold main sale tickets, very, very few. Those with surplus tickets can resell ...

Those who really want to go, and who missed all the sales, now have two more tickets to choose from. Let me rephrase that for you. Ahem. "Those who really want to go, and have money for $1000 tickets, can now go, provided they cover what for me is turning into a financial blunder. Of course, they c...