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Burning Man Tickets for 2015: Registration for individual sale opens Wed Feb 11, closes Sat Feb 14, tickets go on sale next week at noon on Wed Feb 18 - http://tickets.burningman.org/#
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If you are possibly going to attend Burning Man this year, you must register between now and Saturday at noon Pacific to be able to try to buy tickets next week when they go on sale on Wednesday at noon. Details on the page linked. - Stephen Mack
I honestly expect tickets to sell out within 5 minutes this year. - Stephen Mack
Yeah, I'm nervous. - joey - team everyone
Good luck, Joey! Have you got your preregistration code yet? - Stephen Mack
I have! I forgot to have Ben preregister, though. Gah. - joey - team everyone
Time... - Stephen Mack
...48 minutes to front of line. - Stephen Mack
This is insane. I went from 47 min to 20 to 39. I'm in a meeting with my friend (to buy tickets) and he went from 49 to 14 and then 'the line is paused'. EDIT: I just got the pause notice, too. - joey - team everyone
More than an hour :( I have a friend at 19 min. - joey - team everyone
I'm paused too. I went from 44 to 57 before that. Now it says, "more than an hour" - Stephen Mack
the suspense is killing me! :0 Seriously, good luck, you two. - MoTO Boychick Devil
Thanks, Barry! - Stephen Mack
42! But it is vacillating wildly! Thank you, Barry! <3 - joey - team everyone
24! My friend who was at 19 minutes just got his. - joey - team everyone
One of my campmates says he got his, so it is working. - Stephen Mack
Still "more than an hour" for me. - Stephen Mack
However, I should say that I did manage to get tickets already in the Directed sale, so this is just for friends and campmates. - Stephen Mack
My friend is reading the JSON to see how much progress he's actually making. This is super entertaining. - joey - team everyone
Haha, that's great! - Stephen Mack
They are doing some weird things with this site. I'm shocked. Burning Man has always been perfectly sensical with web development and server load! ;) - joey - team everyone
Well, it's all outsourced to Ticketfly, right? - Stephen Mack
Now shows "51 minutes" for me. - Stephen Mack
Yeah, this part of it is all Ticketfly. The pre-registration crashed their site, though. I'm now at 14 but I was just at 13. My friend is at 5. EDIT: downgraded to 26. - joey - team everyone
Back to more than an hour. WTF. - joey - team everyone
And now back to "more than an hour" -- this is zany. - Stephen Mack
I wonder if it's sold out now and failures are starting to occur. - joey - team everyone
My friend went from 5 min to more than an hour. - joey - team everyone
Back to 32 and 13 for us. This really is like a Windows install ;) - joey - team everyone
Still at "more than an hour." I wonder what time you would have had to click the green button to get a ticket. - Stephen Mack
I clicked it instantly and stupidly reclicked because it didn't look like it was loading. I bet people beat me by microseconds. Now I'm at 22 but it keeps switching all over. It's a personality test. - joey - team everyone
I did the same thing! Except i was manually refreshing and accidentally refreshed before clicking, costing me at least 2 seconds. - Stephen Mack
I may have done that, too. Who knows? I started in before my friend and he's now at 1m and i'm at 18m. Playa maths ;) - joey - team everyone
And it just redirected him to the main page now. No tickets. Blerg. - joey - team everyone
Vehicle passes are sold out. He got tickets, though. 8 min for me and we'll see if any tickets remain! - joey - team everyone
Gah, vehicle passes sold out? - Stephen Mack
According to my friend. - joey - team everyone
It's allegedly my turn now, but it's been over a minute redirecting me to the next step so I'll let you know. Watch them have just sold out ;) - joey - team everyone
Gooooood luck - Stephen Mack
2 tickets acquired! No vehicle passes left. It redirects multiple times and takes forever. Stay patient! - joey - team everyone
WOOOHOOOOOO - Stephen Mack
Trilo on eplaya: "I wouldn't worry too much about vehicle passes at this point. Just worry about getting through and getting tickets now, vehicle passes can be sorted later. People realize they didn't need as many as they thought and plenty turn up in the after-market, and it's also possible that Burning Man will revisit the number they make available this year." (https://eplaya.burningman.com/viewtop...) - Stephen Mack
(He's an eplaya site admin and ticket customer service liaison.) - Stephen Mack
Yeah, I'm not too worried. If we have to we'll send our gear with a Seattle camp and take the Burner Express from SF. We'd just skip Sun River to decompress on the way home that way but have the added benefit of not having to drive! - joey - team everyone
Still more than an hour for me, but a friend says she got through only to find that she can't buy any -- might be sold out - Stephen Mack
Did she try a vehicle pass? It will tell you they are sold out but it's not the entire order. Bad client side messaging ;) - joey - team everyone
...and it just flipped me to 59 minutes - Stephen Mack
It might be the vehicle pass? It did that to me and my friend. - joey - team everyone
Thanks, I let her know - Stephen Mack
FB and Eplaya now saying sold out. - Stephen Mack
Damn. Did your friend make it? - joey - team everyone
Nope. - Stephen Mack
53 minutes for me - Stephen Mack
She's still trying, but she's not able to get anywhere. The first "sold out" report on eplaya was at 1:07. - Stephen Mack
I'll keep an eye out for extra tickets out of Seattle. - joey - team everyone
Ditto. Looks like none of my campmates got any (other than in the direct sale) except for one guy got a pair. So that was about 11 out of 12 who didn't get any. - Stephen Mack
I know I didn't take more than a few seconds to click the green button. How optimistic my "5 minutes" up above was -- sell out was definitely less than five seconds. - Stephen Mack
Sell out confirmed. Two seconds. - Stephen Mack
Whoa. - joey - team everyone
http://blog.burningman.com/2015... - Stephen Mack
STEP didn't work for me at all but friends did :) - joey - team everyone
Yeah, I think STEP is a very risky option. I don't know anyone who ever managed to get any tickets in the OMG sale either. - Stephen Mack
So my campmates are pretty upset -- many claim they hit the green button INSTANTLY but still didn't get tickets. - Stephen Mack
Stubhub mf'ers selling 347 tickets starting at $949 at the minimum: http://www.stubhub.com/search... - Stephen Mack
Although on eplaya someone said some of those were posted even before today, and the seller is just betting they can find one to resell at a profit. - Stephen Mack
Good grief. That's absurd and frustrating. I swear I hit the button instantly, too, but still barely made it. It must have come down to fractions. - joey - team everyone