{"id":11163,"date":"2025-05-29T17:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T00:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=11163"},"modified":"2025-05-30T10:48:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T17:48:59","slug":"burning-man-reselling-ticket-prices-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/29\/burning-man-reselling-ticket-prices-fixed\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning Man Reselling Ticket Prices Fixed!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Woo hoo, I did that!\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

(previously<\/a>)<\/p>\n

In the San Francisco Standard
\nBurning Man ticket resale overcharging issue has buyers irate<\/a>
\nThe event\u2019s official platform overcharged buyers, sparking fury and an eventual refund.<\/p>\n

…When STEP opened in mid-May, Tixel\u2019s resale fees included a 9% \u201cLive Entertainment\u201d tax required by the state of Nevada. For tickets originally purchased for $750 with fees, that amounted to nearly $70. However, the original ticket sale also charged the 9%, meaning a buyer was being taxed twice.<\/p>\n

After inquiries from The Standard, the Burning Man organization confirmed that Tixel had \u201caccidentally charged\u201d the tax and \u201cis in the process of refunding\u201d it to buyers….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Woo hoo, I did that! (previously) In the San Francisco Standard Burning Man ticket resale overcharging issue has buyers irate The event\u2019s official platform overcharged buyers, sparking fury and an eventual refund. …When STEP opened in mid-May, Tixel\u2019s resale fees included a 9% \u201cLive Entertainment\u201d tax required by the state of Nevada. For tickets originally […]<\/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-11163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11163","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=11163"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11175,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11163\/revisions\/11175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}