by Guy » Fri Feb 10, 2012 1:57 pm
So, Burners, this from Larry Harvey, BMorg director on what's happening...
Larry Harvey Says:
February 10th, 2012 at 10:24 am
Greetings Burners
As the director of the board, I am here to announce some important developments. First, the BLM has agreed to a modest augmentation in our permit. A 10% increase in the population cap. This means around 5,000 more tickets will be added to the pool. Good news. We will announce via the JRS as soon as the paper work is finalize and signed by both parties.
Second, the BM LLC has hired a team to analyse the lottery data set. The team’s task was to ascertain and report to the board the ratio of known burners vs first timers, newbies or virgins as you call them. They did this by comparing lottery winner names against the existing customer names in our sales and marketing database. If you purchased a ticket in any of the last eleven years, you are in our database. The team reported only 37.2% of the lottery sales went to existing or previous year’s customers. Yes, we are dumbfounded too. We suspect a substantial portion of the 62.8% first time winners are in fact speculators with no intent on attending the event. Unfortunately, we can not recall the lottery. But with this much uncertainty, we have decided to cancel the March sale. Instead, we will do our best to see the remaining tickets make it to key volunteers of major theme camps and art installations. Without these volunteers, our beloved BRC can not be built nor operated for the week.
I sincerely hope you understand,
LH
Regards,
Guy
Keep on living, laughing, learning and loving.
