I know you’re all on pins and needles right now, so I thought I’d give you a quick update about what I know about ticket sales.
According to The Jack Rabbit, requests for tickets were wildly beyond expectations. Apparently, so many people were worried that they wouldn’t get tickets, that they requested 2 tickets, even though they only needed 1 for themselves. The idea was that if one of their friends didn’t get a ticket, they’d be able to help out, and visa versa. All this accomplished was a huge spike in ticket sales.
So, NOT everyone who registered will get a ticket. But they have put some new policies in place to help facilitate the reselling of tickets, as well as refunds for those who bought more than they needed.
From Sunburn Sarah’s newsletter:
Here is the deal straight from the ticketing team.
If you registered for the lottery, watch your email on Tuesday and Wednesday. You will get an email telling you if you got tickets. If you did not, the email will tell you how to register for STEP (secure ticket exchange program)
People who end up with more tickets than then need have the option before the tickets are ever mailed, to sell them back to Burning Man.
They get a refund.
Burning Man will take those tickets sold back and redistribute them on a first come first served basis among people who opt in to STEP. You must opt in, it is not automatic.
This way tickets people don’t want/need stay out of scalpers hands and people looking for tickets need not meet some stranger in a parking lot with hundreds of dollars in cash. The STEP program will operate up until physical tickets are mailed out this summer.
Then there is still the secondary sale in March with 10K tickets sold the old fashioned way, first come first served.
So, there you have it – you’ll know Tuesday or Wednesday if you got your tickets for Burning Man 2012! And if not, don’t worry – STEP quickly and you’ll surely find a ticket.