Comments on: Harvesting Brains Around Group Ticketing

By: Kioty

Kioty — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 05:11:23 +0000

The following is kind of a gripe but has good advice… The excess was from scalper heaven caused by BMORG. They were smiling… Then the stupidity of BMORG to cancle tickets. Talk about showing everyone you only cared about the $$$$ side and not the Burners. You already had your money and wanted more. Old school burners knew this was coming when it went corporate.
Enough Bitching

Never heard a peep out of camps before the lotto. That was a major RUSH will I get a ticket will I not get a ticket, sitting at the computer waiting to push the submit button AAHHHHHHH it was uforic………. Now just dump it in the mail and wait
WOOPIE TY COW PATTY…. Just not working an atr car of anything till we are confirmed to get tickets. Sounds like the military — Hurry Up And Wait

Lets do it right this time, Better servers (BMORG can afford it) First come first served

Kioty Out

INVEST IN BETTER SERVERS !!!! PROBLEM SOLVED that way you can keep your 10
thousand tickets to give away to the grounds crew.

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By: Brian Cornwell

Brian Cornwell — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:33:13 +0000

Group Ticketing. . . I admit to not reading this entire paid as I simply do not have all that much time left on the planet but I may or may not have come upon a solution to handling your group purchases with a website/financial group called WePay.com

Good luck

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By: Blaze

Blaze — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 09:23:53 +0000

As soon as we make them non-transferable, there has to be some sort of system to track it and check ID – cumbersome PIA for our staff, complexity and loss of flexibility for participants, and a loss of anonymity in a world where there is less and less of that comfort. Many of my volunteers insist on it, I prefer it.

… and canceling of suspected scalped tickets = huge effort to be punitive on our community. Someone always gets hurt. The Bandit Class has always existed, always will. Resist it in positive ways, encourage it to participate rightfully. The rest …. our gift to the dregs of society, a nod to chaos that always nips at our heels. Stop chasing it with bad energy.

Thanks for all of your efforts, but sometimes less is more.

Low income and regular price, first come first serve. Resist scalpers using positive social pressure, ultimately a better use of our energy.

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By: Silver Fox

Silver Fox — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 03:21:22 +0000

After many a burn I find the reading here lacking in only one thing. Who shall commit. We all are ready for the go and the first come first serve is #1. There are those that do not carry an ID for they are off the grid and yet still go, and maybe they need a little help with gifting. Gifting is how I take my tribe as I pay the way for them through the love we share on the playa. We are all smart in our own way and I’m sure that 2013 shall be less nerve racking as we didn’t get our tickets 2012 till three weeks out and had to make such changes in the last minute that makes for an undue stressfullness I never care to feel again.

It was with great elation to get the tickets, but a sad way to feel for months knowing I wasn’t going, till those last weeks.

I am a burner all year long but need my community for that window of time to rebirth. Please make it simple.

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By: Mama Bear

Mama Bear — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 20:38:36 +0000

Please just go back to individual ticket sales. Y’all didn’t even sell out in 2011 till July. If you can’t get your shit together by July then you obviously aren’t a key leader for a camp or art project (most likely). Last year was a total shit show and I really hope you don’t do that awful lottery again. I trust and love y’all so I have faith that you will resolve this so no deserving burner is left in the dark.. )’( see ya in 2013

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By: Trevor

Trevor — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 19:36:18 +0000

also if you have applied for Placement as a Theme Camp, you should be able to request Pre-Sale Tickets for your Group. Maybe a Lot of 10,000 set aside for that.
or maybe a top tier price that IS transferrable, and a lower tier price that is non-transferrable.

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By: Trevor

Trevor — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 19:25:59 +0000

2 ticket limit. 1st come, NO TIERS. NON-Transferrable – except through a STEP, or STEP – like exchange program.
Simple enough?

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By: Spira

Spira — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 22:10:25 +0000

I would like the BMORG (and others) to seriously think about the 2 ticket limit. This limit last year required my family to consider not going. We needed three tickets and only got two (because we only have one debit card to make purchases), luckily we got the third on Craigslist and were able to all go. This next year we will need four total. We don’t have multiple credit cards to make multiple 2 ticket purchases. I am sure this is true for a lot of families/groups that need more than two tickets.

How about group sales, where you can purchase more that two tickets. Camps/groups/families could purchase tickets in bulk. This would be separate from the individual sales with special rules, like a name assigned to the ticket, etc.

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By: cynic

cynic — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 05:10:46 +0000

The only sure thing is that as long as the event sells out, you will have a certain contingent crying and moaning about whatever ticketing method you choose…

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