In the meantime, Tixel removed the LET fee… in apparent response to my emailing them about it!!<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Tixel-Checkout-2025-05-27-120x101.jpg\")
<\/a>The checkout screen from yesterday<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>The checkout screen today<\/p><\/div>\n
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In a related issue, they were charging the 9% Nevada Live Entertainment Tax on the entire $895 listing price even though that $895 includes several fees that are not part of the ticket price. The ticket cost me $750 + $30 delivery fee + $135 Nevada Live Entertainment Tax + $67 credit card processing. Those fees aren’t supposed to get double-taxed-again on the second resell. So that’s got to get figured out.<\/p>\n
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Do you want to buy my Burning Man Tickets? Buy them on Tixel here<\/a> or message me and we’ll figure out to trust one another on the internet and save <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I’m happy I get to update my original listing for my ticket!<\/p>\n Selling 2 $750 tickets at our cost.<\/p>\n In our panic to get tickets, my wife and I both bought tickets to that thing in the desert. Please buy our extras. 2 tickets at the $750 level, selling for what we paid, $870.48 each. No car pass, sorry.<\/p>\n PM me. We can figure out how to trust one another on the phone to save My GoConfirm code: L72T<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Michael Geier’s post on the topic<\/a><\/p>\n “…Important Update for Burning Man Ticket Buyers via Tixel \/ STEP ????<\/p>\n It looks like Tixel has quietly removed the 9% Nevada Live Entertainment Tax (LET) from current Burning Man ticket resales….”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Screenshot<\/p><\/div>\n and my response on FB:<\/p>\n Holy shit! That was me! I’ve been talking to them over the last few days about being double-taxed with the Nevada Live Entertainment Tax! They didn’t reach out to me specifically about removing the LET but my messages, apparently, got them thinking! I’m trying to get rid of 2 extra tickets I have for Burning Man. I was trying to sell them using the official Burning Man reseller program called STEP and I noticed the fees charged by the middleman, Tixel.com were quite steep. Most notably, Tixel was adding an $80 Nevada Live Entertainment Tax (LET) to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11145"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11157,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11145\/revisions\/11157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}$214<\/del> $130 per ticket.<\/p>\n
\nHere’s my Tixel listing but don’t buy from those bastards! The listing shows how I listed at $895.68 (I aimed for us to split the Tixel $50 listing fee) but a few clicks later you’ll be paying $1084.81 for the ticket <\/del>https:\/\/tixel.com\/u\/3693633 . Screw those guys!<\/del><\/p>\n$214<\/del> $130 per ticket.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-28-300x231.jpg\")
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\nI’m continuing to research it right now and I’m gonna tell you, reading the existing and proposed law is hard and MIND NUMBING (and not in a good way!) My first thought is that it’s important to not be too harsh on Tixel, but we’ve got to figure out the law together. As I’ve been reading the current and proposed law this morning, I’ve flip-flopped several times, alternately thinking that the current law says that any reseller is required to charge the excise tax (which is an insane, state mandated double-tax), or maybe not.
\nIt would be great if a Burner legislative lawyer-type could look over this and offer guidance! Here’s a proposed bill that has the text of the current law baked into it: https:\/\/www.leg.state.nv.us\/Session\/83rd2025\/Bills\/SB\/SB431_R1.pdf<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"