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Burners Make Mad Dash For Tickets

Tickets have sold out to the annual Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert.

About 30,000 tickets were released Wednesday, selling at a price of $390 each. They were gone within half an hour, according to the Reno Gazette-Journal. The online sale started at noon for those pre-registered.

Reno resident Lorri Nielsen said she got stuck in a virtual "queue" after logging into the system.

“And it says there’s no need to refresh this page, they’ll automatically advance me to the next step when it’s my turn," Nielsen says. "So I’m just waiting for it to be my turn.” 

Snapshot from Reno resident Lorri Nielsen as she's waiting in the "queue" to find out if she's one of the lucky ones to score a Burning Man ticket. Photo courtesy of Lorri Nielsen.

Nielsen says a couple of years ago she came up empty-handed after waiting online for almost an hour.  But, she says, her family are longtime Burners and have always manage to get tickets through other sellers.

Last year the week-long festival attracted almost 70,000 people. This year’s event takes place Aug. 28 through Sept. 5. 

Anh Gray is a former contributing editor at KUNR Public Radio.
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