Refund

[TDPL2010]

I'm finding it impossible to get a response from ticketing. I was told a refund was made to my credit card for 2020 tickets, but my bank never received it. Now I get crickets when I submit follow-up e-mails to ticketing. I'm currently out $3,000+ and cannot get a human being to respond to me. Any tips on how to get a response?

[Sham]

I'm finding it impossible to get a response from ticketing. I was told a refund was made to my credit card for 2020 tickets, but my bank never received it. Now I get crickets when I submit follow-up e-mails to ticketing. I'm currently out $3,000+ and cannot get a human being to respond to me. Any tips on how to get a response?

Speaking strictly unofficially, your tickets were purchased nearly 2 years ago. I would try to reach ticketing again, but I'm not sure anything can be done at this point. You might try to request tickets for 2022, but that may not happen. Many people donated their ticket money to the org, and others requested partial refunds. Depending on the email trail, you may be able to get a reasonable resolution to this.

[Kimo]

Straight from the tickets page from their website:
Tickets to Black Rock City have always been nonrefundable. That’s because we use ticket revenue to produce the event, and a lot of that spending has to start right around the time ticket sales happen. Your ticket money helps defray the costs of our permits from the government, staffing, equipment maintenance and repair, and more. Income from ticket revenue is what allows us to flip the switch and get cracking on making the event happen. We don’t offer refunds because we would not be able to move forward with our production timelines and hiring if we were not secure in our source of funding.

[Kimo]

https://tickets.burningman.org/

[lucky420]

50% of your ticket may be refunded if it cancels by May

[Canoe]

50% of your ticket may be refunded if it cancels by May

Sell Tickets - one way to do a cash grab during a pandemic national emergency...

[Kimo]

[quote=lucky420 post_id=1212319 time=1642785833 user_id=39821]
50% of your ticket may be refunded if it cancels by May
[/quote]

Where exactly did you get that information

[u]This is clearly stated on the website:[/u]
[b]Refund and Cancellation Policy. ALL SALES ARE FINAL. No refunds or exchanges will be issued for any reason. Fees are non-refundable.[/b]

[burner von braun]

Kimo wrote:

Where exactly did you get that information

Here, near the bottom
https://journal.burningman.org/2022/01/ ... ting-info/

And as others have pointed out elsewhere, note that it says "up to..."

[Kimo]

Ok, now i see it:
Though we have our sights set on a return to Black Rock City this year, we are still in the midst of an unpredictable pandemic.

Should circumstance prevent us from bringing our city back this year, and force us to cancel the event before early May, we intend to make a one-time exception to our “no refunds” policy and offer partial refunds of up to 50% of your ticket purchase.

If we have to cancel the event later than early May, we will be unable to make any exception to our policy, as a large amount of our necessary spending will already have taken place.

[FlyingMonkey]

Straight from the tickets page from their website:
Tickets to Black Rock City have always been nonrefundable. That’s because we use ticket revenue to produce the event, and a lot of that spending has to start right around the time ticket sales happen. Your ticket money helps defray the costs of our permits from the government, staffing, equipment maintenance and repair, and more. Income from ticket revenue is what allows us to flip the switch and get cracking on making the event happen. We don’t offer refunds because we would not be able to move forward with our production timelines and hiring if we were not secure in our source of funding.

Yeah....about that.

Isn't that completely contrary to what they said when we were facing the first cancellation? Seems to me they said that ticket revenue was used for "other projects" & that the event was funded by wealthy donors.

Seems to me that the people in charge are lining their pockets. Remember the day when the event was created by the participants. Not to hard to fund that now is it. Yeah, I know permits...bla, bla, bla....Are they spending over $30M on portos? Really?

[FlyingMonkey]

50% of your ticket may be refunded if it cancels by May

Well that's reassuring since we all know that they would never fiddle fuck around trying to make a decision.

[FlyingMonkey]

Ok, now i see it:
Though we have our sights set on a return to Black Rock City this year, we are still in the midst of an unpredictable pandemic.

Should circumstance prevent us from bringing our city back this year, and force us to cancel the event before early May, we intend to make a one-time exception to our “no refunds” policy and offer partial refunds of up to 50% of your ticket purchase.

If we have to cancel the event later than early May, we will be unable to make any exception to our policy, as a large amount of our necessary spending will already have taken place.

Ironically we all chuckled when the Fyre Festival imploded because we had a "real" event.