Burning Man tickets posted for $1 million

More than 40,000 people that registered for Burning Man tickets did not get them, but would any one of them be willing to pay $1 million to get in to the annual desert bash?

We'll see.

Two tickets are posted for $1 million each on the website, StubHub.com, one of which is actually $1 million and an added 90 cents for kicks.

Tickets up for grabs during the individual sale were scooped up in less than an hour Wednesday last week. About 21,500 people bought 40,000 tickets.

Minutes after the sale closed, tickets appeared for sale at wildly inflated prices on a number of distribution sites, including StubHub, Ebay, TheTicketBucket and VividSeats. Craigslist also had a few.

StubHub has the most available tickets of most sites -- more than 500 on Monday -- with tickets starting at more than $1,000, that's $610 more than the original price.

In fact, the pricetags on Ebay and TheTicketBucket could not compare to those listed on StubHub.

Ebay's priciest listing including a package of two tickets and one vehicle pass for $3,999.95. TheTicketBucket had two tickets collectively for sale for $1,691.66.

The scalping of tickets is nothing new, according to Burning Man spokeswoman Megan Miller.

"It happens every year," Miller said last week.

Some of those exorbitantly priced tickets already have been posted as "sold" much to the dismay of Burning Man, which founds itself on 10 principles. Two of those principles include decommodification and radical inclusion, both of which seem to be blatantly violated by such examples of scalping.

"It's antithetical to our community's ethos, but it's also the reality of supply and demand," a statement from Burning Man said on its website Thursday.

The organization encouraged Burners to use its own ticket exchange system as a safe, fail-proof alternative, and also encouraged them to contact distribution websites to report marked up ticket sales.

Last week was not the last opportunity to get a ticket, as the OMG sale and the low-income sale remain, but the bulk of the tickets have been sold by now.

The big question now is: Did most of them go to Burners, or scalpers?