Virgin Burner hoping for ticket assistance PLEASE?

[Questyning]

Yes, this is me... begging. :)

I've wanted to attend for a dozen years, but having 4 kids has made it hard.

THIS YEAR I CAN MAKE IT, but am hoping to find a ticket for around $200 (or less?), since a $300 ticket isn't workable for me.

If anyone has a ticket they're unable to use, I'd be grateful for the help in making this year amazing.

Thanks, all!

[goathead]

no begging on first post, go up and introduce yourself first then come back

[haolegolucky]

Yes, this is me... begging.

I've wanted to attend for a dozen years, but having 4 kids has made it hard.

THIS YEAR I CAN MAKE IT, but am hoping to find a ticket for around $200 (or less?), since a $300 ticket isn't workable for me.

If anyone has a ticket they're unable to use, I'd be grateful for the help in making this year amazing.

Thanks, all!

No offense, but if a $100 difference in ticket price will make or break you, can you even afford to go at all? Tickets are the least of your worries. Transportation, gas, food, shelter all factor in here.

You got 100 plus days. Check your pockets and look into vending machines for change. Have a garage sale. Use the kids and do a car wash. Use craigslist and sell off belongings you don't need or use anymore.

Good luck.

[Questyning]

Yes, really, that $100 is make or break. My budget is VERY tight if I'm to be able to make it, given all the other expenses of the event. It's a "can do" but I have to work within the budget I have or it becomes a "can't do."

Thanks, though.

[Minxy]

With a trip this costly and time/planning intensive I've got to wonder...why in the world wouldn't you have applied for a scholarship or low income ticket in the first place if that $100 is such a big deal? What if gas prices go up? What if you need additional camping gear? A trip of this complexity has a lot of unknowns built in; especially if you've never gone. If $100 is the difference between you affording to go or not, I'd just go ahead now and pick NOT and wait until you're more financially stable.

I applied for a low income ticket (I'm unemployed and injured at the moment) and my daughter applied for a scholarship ticket (unemployed full-time university student) and we were both accepted. If we weren't, I would have made the extra money happen with PLENTY of advance time to get it over the year. Selling off stuff, garage sales, babysitting, ANYTHING...

Generally speaking, people who apply for those tickets actually NEED them and are planning in advance. I don't understand people that expect others to make up the monetary difference for them when they haven't been proactive to get things done on their own. Really baffles me.

[Questyning]

I never expected anyone to monetarily compensate for my lack of planning. At the time those tickets were available, and the application processes were still open, there was no way I had availability to attend.

In recent weeks things have drastically changed, and opportunity presented itself, and I'm able to go. The short notice is a large part of the reason for the financial hardship, in fact. Had I been able to plan far enough ahead, this never would have been an issue.

Glad you and your daughter were able to get the reduced-cost/free tickets you sought and needed. Just hoping someone has one in a price range that will work for me, not asking anyone to take a loss.

[Minxy]

I hear ya.

Just as an example, here is what I did. I wanted to go for years, but didn't have lots of availability/lots of money. However I REALLY wanted to go.

Every year I logged in on ticket day and bought a first tier ticket (financially I didn't feel I qualified for a low income ticket at that time). When it was confirmed that there was no way I could make it (again) that year I sold it at cost to a friend/someone local.

Sure, you "might" get lucky like that. But if you've wanted to go for TWELVE years, one would think you might be a little more proactive?

[BBadger]

I'm sorry, but if $100 is the supposed difference between going and not going, the probability that you actually will go is very low given the far greater costs outside the ticket price. It would be a better use of a $200 ticket to put it up for public sale for those who want to snatch up cheap tickets for some added trip flexibility.

Spend that $200 on something more worthy of your financial situation, or save the money for next year.

[Questyning]

Ya know, when I came here asking for a ticket someone might have to sell not at a loss but at their cost, I didn't realize so many would take it upon themselves to offer advice on my financial situation when they know virtually nothing of it.

Thanks for passing judgment! Love that! :)

[Dr. Pyro]

You're welcome. Anything else you need help with?

[Minxy]

Lol.

I wasn't passing judgement on your financial situation as you're right...I don't know anything about it except for what you've shared. You stated $100 will make or break your first Burning Man trip.

Firstly the crowd here (and I believe the general consensus of Burners, altho this is my personal speculation as I can't speak for others) believes that you should be radically self-reliant about your trip. If you're cutting it so close that $100 will make or break you most people will agree you shouldn't go.

Secondly, what if your car breaks down and you need to get something fixed? What if your cooler breaks and you need more food/water? There are a million "what ifs" that could occur to you on this adventure and if you've never been you're less prepared than an experienced Burner. With four kids at home, I'd think you'd want to be comfortably prepared for emergencies not getting by on the skin of your teeth.

No offense being given by me, anyway, but from what you've shared, you're not ready to go. IMO. I'd say save for next year and be able to afford your trip without begging or cutting things so close!

Oh and additionally, in requesting a ticket for $200 (or less) you're basically asking for a low income ticket. The scholarship tix can't be resold as they are held at Will Call for the person that was granted the ticket to pick it up with ID present (so they can't be resold).

Low income tix are the only ones that fit in your price range and there were only 1000 of them (I think).

First tier was $210 (plus ticketing fees and shipping) and people sat all day in line for those tickets. IF a person was to give up one of these precious tickets what do you think the odds are they are going to sell it to someone who is woefully unprepared (intimated by the information you've shared so far) instead of a friend?

[jerroc]

As the event gets closer people will be selling their ticket check out craigslist and eplaya. expect to pay a minimum of $240.

[C.f.M.]

Ya know, when I came here asking for a ticket someone might have to sell not at a loss but at their cost, I didn't realize so many would take it upon themselves to offer advice on my financial situation when they know virtually nothing of it.

Thanks for passing judgment! Love that!

If all you were asking for was a ticket at-cost, why add in the sob story?

There's always loads of tickets for sale closer and closer to the event going
for cost.

[BBadger]

Ya know, when I came here asking for a ticket someone might have to sell not at a loss but at their cost, I didn't realize so many would take it upon themselves to offer advice on my financial situation when they know virtually nothing of it.

What you conveyed said more than enough.

Thanks for passing judgment! Love that! :)

I am ready to cast the first stone.

[changoloco]

This person just needs to go read the ten principles, here, I will make that easy for you since, it doesn't seem that you are capable of practicing them.

http://www.burningman.com/whatisburning ... iples.html

Now go learn radical self-reliance. You sound like the kind of person that would pass out drunk in the sun in my camp without first introducing yourself. I don't want you at the burn.

[goathead]

Now go learn radical self-reliance. You sound like the kind of person that would pass out drunk in the sun in my camp without first introducing yourself. I don't want you at the burn.

But that is the time to break out the sharpies...

[CapSmashy]

But that is the time to break out the sharpies...

Yes, as covered under radical self expression.