
2017 Ticket Waiting Room??
Re: It's.... The 2017 Main Sale Excitement & Congrats Thread!
Yay! so excited to finally be able to go back home again! We have been trying for a few years and no luck but I had a good feeling this time. 

- Cornelius_Pumpernickel
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No more tickets?
None available I waited only 30 mins!
- SpringBacon
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Re: It's.... The 2017 Main Sale Excitement & Congrats Thread!
So so so upset. after 3 years in a row of nothing I finally got through. Put info in, called hubby with good news, and it all went wrong. Ticketyfly kept resetting my info saying I needed to use a Visa or Mastercard, and I [email protected] I put my visa info in 3 times carefully and everytime it didnt accept it! Eventually my ticketfly page told mee to try again, it refreshed and now Im back at the beginning of the [email protected]@!!!! Ive never used so much profanity! my timer wasnt even done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Frig, not getting through is one thing, but this time it felt personal.
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Re: No more tickets?
If you were so notified, then that's it. Last year about the same timeframe.
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Re: It's.... The 2017 Main Sale Excitement & Congrats Thread!
haha, thanks I needed a laugh because I'm fucking freaking out still!! Only 1 out of 9 people in our group has gotten in so far. Anyone know what time tickets sold out last year? I'm trying to figure out how much hope I should have left...lucky420 wrote:Gingerbread Man, only he's not running as fast as he can.
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Re: It's.... The 2017 Main Sale Excitement & Congrats Thread!
fuck!
[b]All tickets carted[/b]
All tickets are already in other people’s carts. Hold tight, there is still a chance tickets may become available. If ticket buyers ahead of you do not complete their purchase, those tickets will be released for sale.
Decommodification: In order to preserve the spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand ready to protect our culture from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of consumption for participatory experience.

[b]All tickets carted[/b]
All tickets are already in other people’s carts. Hold tight, there is still a chance tickets may become available. If ticket buyers ahead of you do not complete their purchase, those tickets will be released for sale.
Decommodification: In order to preserve the spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand ready to protect our culture from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of consumption for participatory experience.
Re: It's.... The 2017 Main Sale Excitement & Congrats Thread!
Iirc, it should out in less than an hour last year...
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Re: It's.... The 2017 Main Sale Excitement & Congrats Thread!
I've been measuring the pixels of the green bar at regular intervals and calculated my progress rate to be about:
5.217391304347824 pixels per minute.
Anyone else care to share their speeds?
(Also congrats to all that got in!!)
5.217391304347824 pixels per minute.
Anyone else care to share their speeds?

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Re: It's.... The 2017 Main Sale Excitement & Congrats Thread!
Uh oh. Green man only halfway up the queue and...
All tickets carted
All tickets are already in other people’s carts. Hold tight, there is still a chance tickets may become available. If ticket buyers ahead of you do not complete their purchase, those tickets will be released for sale.
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Re: It's.... The 2017 Main Sale Excitement & Congrats Thread!
well, poo
All tickets carted
All tickets are already in other people’s carts. Hold tight, there is still a chance tickets may become available. If ticket buyers ahead of you do not complete their purchase, those tickets will be released for sale.
All tickets carted
All tickets are already in other people’s carts. Hold tight, there is still a chance tickets may become available. If ticket buyers ahead of you do not complete their purchase, those tickets will be released for sale.
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Re: It's.... The 2017 Main Sale Excitement & Congrats Thread!
Got in ---- no tickets.
No warning about carts.
No warning about carts.
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Re: It's.... The 2017 Main Sale Excitement & Congrats Thread!
@SpringBacon,I'm sorry to hear it. I would suggest sending an email to [email protected] with all the pertinent details (as see the first post for specifics).
Re: It's.... The 2017 Main Sale Excitement & Congrats Thread!
Tickets purchased! 8 of us got in to buy all 16 tickets for our camp. AMAZING!
Re: It's.... The 2017 Main Sale Excitement & Congrats Thread!
Horse shit!
But on the bright side it was only 45 min. of horse shit as opposed to a half a day of horse shit...
But on the bright side it was only 45 min. of horse shit as opposed to a half a day of horse shit...
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Sooner or later, it will get real strange...
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Re: It's.... The 2017 Main Sale Excitement & Congrats Thread!
Congrats to everyone who got in... for the rest of us...it's time to start the journey of getting a ticket between now and then! It's easy for me to say because I'm local to the area but I've never not eventually gotten a ticket (for face value btw). What I was trying to avoid was the intense anxiety as the date draws nearer and you still don't have a ticket... somehow it always works out though, somehow!
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Re: It's.... The 2017 Main Sale Excitement & Congrats Thread!
Ah well, congrats to those who got tickets. This year we were kind of half into it, half not. If we got tickets in the main sale, we were going, if not, we weren't gonna scramble for them. So, next year!
Re: No more tickets?
45 minutes? That sucks a donkey.
Re: 2017 Ticket Waiting Room??
It would not be Burningman if the ticket sales went according to plan.
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Re: No more tickets?
Isotopia! Howdy!
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Re: It's.... The 2017 Main Sale Excitement & Congrats Thread!
I've merged Cornelius_Pumpernickel's ticket sale discussion thread. Yes, 30 minutes is about right, based on previous years' ticket sales. Fingers crossed for all those in the system, hopefully something shakes loose when an abandoned cart times out (what happens when someone has tickets in their cart but does not complete the transaction).
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Re: It's.... The 2017 Main Sale Excitement & Congrats Thread!
Booo Hooo, see ya in the $1200 ticket sale next Wednesday!
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Re: It's.... The 2017 Main Sale Excitement & Congrats Thread!
And...scene.
No more tickets available
Tickets in the Main Sale are sold out. If you didn’t get tickets please refer to tickets.burningman.org to learn more about your other options.
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Re: It's.... The 2017 Main Sale Excitement & Congrats Thread!
I've merged bdman's ticket sale discussion thread.
Re: It's.... The 2017 Main Sale Excitement & Congrats Thread!
In this case that extra inch, would have made me a pornstar...
Congrats to all the lottery winners!
Congrats to all the lottery winners!
Sooner or later, it will get real strange...
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Re: It's.... The 2017 Main Sale Excitement & Congrats Thread!
Man here is my bitch and moan - I felt like I just got the tip of the enjoyment! I got in - no warning about carts full on the waiting rooms screen - scroll down no tickets available in drop down - hang out refresh get the drop down hmmmmm 7 times or so, select tickets, click buy - and error saying sorry - 10 mins in the offical room & I was kicked out of the room lol.
BOOO Freakin Hooooo but yah super sad but thankful for the years I have gone - and if the world is meant to line up it will
Congrats to everyone who made it through as well as all the new timers welcome home!
BOOO Freakin Hooooo but yah super sad but thankful for the years I have gone - and if the world is meant to line up it will

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Re: It's.... The 2017 Main Sale Excitement & Congrats Thread!
I joined the waiting room around 1130am.
I did nothing w the browser except watch the countdown.
When the countdown hit zero It refreshed and I saw the green man and the bar all green.
It said you are now ready for tickets or something and it redirected me to ticket fly.
I immediately logged in to ticketfly, selected a pair and checked out.
None of my other peeps trying got tickets. *shrug*
hope to see you out there again
I did nothing w the browser except watch the countdown.
When the countdown hit zero It refreshed and I saw the green man and the bar all green.
It said you are now ready for tickets or something and it redirected me to ticket fly.
I immediately logged in to ticketfly, selected a pair and checked out.
None of my other peeps trying got tickets. *shrug*
hope to see you out there again
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Re: It's.... The 2017 Main Sale Excitement & Congrats Thread!
Hello again you wonderful people!
I can happily say, i've got a ticket....
...but i panicked.....and didn't get a vehicle pass....
does anyone know if it is possible to get one separately?
in the STEP or else...even if i already bought a ticket?
I would be massively thankful for any hints.
Greetings,
Descartes
I can happily say, i've got a ticket....
...but i panicked.....and didn't get a vehicle pass....
does anyone know if it is possible to get one separately?
in the STEP or else...even if i already bought a ticket?
I would be massively thankful for any hints.
Greetings,
Descartes
...wenn bei mir alle Stricke reißen, bin ich den Galgen los...
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Re: It's.... The 2017 Main Sale Excitement & Congrats Thread!
And just like that its over! no ticket for us!
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Re: It's.... The 2017 Main Sale Excitement & Congrats Thread!
Trilo, maybe you can answer this. By the time I advanced to the purchase ticket screen all tickets and VPs were already in other people's carts and none available. I hit the purchase tickets button anyway and a VP only became available, so I purchased it. Email confirmed I have purchased a Main Sale Vehicle Pass only. Will this VP be cancelled or will a valid VP be sent to me by the Org? I can get the two tickets I needed another way (Low Income, Step, OMG, after market, etc.). But VPs are harder to get in recent years than tickets. Help please!
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Re: It's.... The 2017 Main Sale Excitement & Congrats Thread!
I got my ticket. After so many horror stories, I got mine, and will be fulfilling a long neglected dream to come home to Burning Man 2017.
Double shot of Rum to celebrate. Now the chills kick in, and it is time to hunt for a cheap airfare. =D
To all the burners that were not so lucky as me: Best luck on STEP and OMG.
See ya on the playa.
Double shot of Rum to celebrate. Now the chills kick in, and it is time to hunt for a cheap airfare. =D
To all the burners that were not so lucky as me: Best luck on STEP and OMG.
See ya on the playa.
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