Comments on: 2012 Ticket Trials 2.0

By: John Oliva

John Oliva — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 03:21:15 +0000

I did get a ticket in the lottery and here is what I think would the right thing to do since they have admitted that they screwed up. It is simple, start over. Cancel all orders filled in the lottery, refund those people. Open registration for 1 ticket per person, name on it. Fist come first served.
No tickets have been issued. I got 2 tickets in the lottery and would think this would be fair. I am sure there would be people who got tickets in the lottery and not be happy about having their order cancelled, but since BM stated that only 40k of the 120k that requested tickets got theirs, then the majority (80k) would be happy.

I do agree with Halcyon about it being a demand issue, but I also think that random lottery doesn’t allow for the first come first served. We are all used to most events offering this type of system and it works for almost all of them.

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By: David Daviton

David Daviton — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:00:32 +0000

sadly burning man is not deaf friendly as all vblog or easy to following or access for deaf as I trying getting into buy ticket that I am involve in Reno C.O.R.E. less than 1/2 of people that our people are in project has no tickets and I am deaf and have been hit mostly hard time to follow up wit that and also on website that Burning Man offer as I know other outside people really abuse with that only bad people get what they want while loyal and good people cant have … wonder is there Murphry Law hit all of us qq

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By: Dog Rancher

Dog Rancher — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 04:18:14 +0000

What happens if BLM reduces the attendance to 40K?
Who will get screwed again STEP up and bend over and f__ked again.
Read the back of the tickets if you have one or the stipulations,exclusions and what you have to agree to before entering BM

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By: Sayer Oftheobvious

Sayer Oftheobvious — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:46:54 +0000

Was there anything wrong with the original method? I mean…REALLY? What reason was there to mess this up for so many people? No opinion of yours can justify it, as it is crystal clear that you have no line of sight or felling to the repercussions of such a foolish decision, BMORG. I hope you people have the decency to refrain from being possessed by some insane “ideal” and clean up the wreckage from this catastrophe.

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By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:21:18 +0000

If you have magazines like Vanity Fair writing about Burning Man, international magazines in France, Italy, Germany, etc., I’m pretty sure demand has gone up… I’m not sure what many of you think happened. The lottery was there probably because of this demand in the first place. I wouldn’t be surprised if close to quarter of a million people were thinking about Burning Man this year. 250,000 to 60,000 tickets? What do you expect BMorg should do with this kind of situation? I agree, they could have left it the way it was in the past, that’s totally reasonable. But it’s hard to imagine what would have happened with that because of 250,000 people wanting to go…

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By: technical monkey

technical monkey — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:22:35 +0000

Also, I must say it is extremely narrow-minded to suggest that congressmen/women threaten to withhold/cut funding for BLM unless they raise the size of the event.
The BLM is a govt agency that serves various functions. They have much bigger issues to think about other than burning man. It is (I’m sorry) really stupid to threaten funding to a govt agency because some people didn’t get tickets. Really. Some perspective is needed. If I were a congress person who was asked to do this I would give you a stern lecture about some of the serious issues that the govt needs to concerns itself with.
This country is in a lot of trouble, the supply of burning man tickets is way, way, way down on the *bottom* of the list of things to fix. Really.

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By: technical monkey

technical monkey — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:12:06 +0000

As for the person who suggested we contact our congressmen/women to go over BLM heads to request an increase in permitted population, only to point out that the only people who should have a say are locals affected by the event…..
1. I sure hope our congress people are concerned with bigger matters than how many people get tickets to BMan, seriously. There are much bigger concerns out there in regards to the functioning of our country.
2. Also, the size of the event should have to do with environmental impact, impact on the surrounding residents, and the capacity of the narrow roads. NOT whether everybody who wants to go gets to go.

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By: Sayer Oftheobvious

Sayer Oftheobvious — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:52:29 +0000

This year’s ticket distribution methods are…well…to put it as plainly as possibly, unintelligent, senseless, inconsiderate, foolish and is a decision clearly lacking the necessary forethought most Burning Man contributions require. But, we’ll do what we can with what situations are given to us by those who have decided to apply a solution to what was never a problem to anyone but them, who simply couldn’t take the pressure of their self elected share of service to something far greater then any of us.

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By: Haig khatchikian

Haig khatchikian — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:13:09 +0000

Sorry I disagree with the person in the video. This problem was created by us Humans and not the Innocent burning man himself. I knew the first tickets will sold out fest. I wasn’t worried because last year 30,000 tickets were sold first and then the rest. Why would you change it to 40, 000 this year when you know it’s THE YEAR 2012. Instead you should have sold first half of the Tickets and then the other, also to make sure that the theme campers fairly get their tickets. Anyhow balance is the Key:))) There is always a loop hole for the best result. We can fix this! Much love…

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By: Steve "Sparky"

Steve "Sparky" — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:37:40 +0000

grandpappy,
You nailed it!!
I told them the lottery system was going to fail and they blew me off! They heard me but didn’t listen to me or others!

Bman organization can still recover if they act quick!

1. Put names on the tickets, making scalping impossible.
2. Give the scalpers an out, offer to buy back at face value. They will dump them in a second if they know what they have is worthless.
3. Everyone buys there own damn ticket!
4. It is an election year. Go over the BLM managements heads. One call from a congress man or woman of any party will get an easy 10,000+ increase in population. BLM is scared to death of budget cuts. Last thing they want is to be on the bad side of a congress person.
The only people that should have a say on our size is the people directly affected, the people of Gerlach and surrounding areas. Put this in prospective, 50,000 people is not even a football game!

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