Louis CK selling tickets to latest tour exclusively on his site

Post by prawn » Tue, Jun 26, 2012, 8:40 AM UTC

tomflack wrote: post #106

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I'm from South Australia, so when I'm near exceptionally popular restaurants, it's usually while travelling so I have a fixed window and won't usually have locked that window in until a week or two beforehand. And the reason I hate calling is that I imagine I'm one of a string of no-chance hopefuls just being a nuisance. And the staff are on the other end thinking "Doesn't this guy know who we are?! You're two months…

> And the reason I hate calling is that I imagine I'm one of a string of no-chance hopefuls just being a nuisance. And the staff are on the other end thinking "Doesn't this guy know who we are?! You're two months late, bozo." Speaking from personal experience, once you get past barriers in yourself like that, life opens up to you. Using the internet as a crutch to avoid social interaction with a possibility of embarr…

Post by b1daly » Tue, Jun 26, 2012, 10:34 AM UTC

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"If you're selling tickets at a flat rate and a sellout happens in a few minutes that means your tickets were too cheap." Not necessarily. I see nothing wrong with attempting to control the entire end to end experience, including ticket price. If he's selling at $45 because that's what he wants, there's nothing wrong with that. Or should cancer or diabetes pills be $1000 per pill because the manufacturer will find en…

But it's inefficient: at an artificially low price (let's stipulate that's what $45 is for Louis C.K.), the show attracts more buyers, a larger proportion of whom aren't dedicated fans. Meanwhile, dedicated fans (not heartless rich people) might be perfectly happy to pay $46, $48, or $54 dollars; they can't, though, because they've been locked out by a flood of superficial fans. This is to say nothing of the deadweig…

Post by Samuel_Michon » Tue, Jun 26, 2012, 1:15 PM UTC

geekfactor wrote: post #2

The site is down, but here is the text: hello folks! I'm going on tour this year from October through Feb. I'll be all over the goddamn place. This year, I'm trying something new, building on the fun, success and fan-benifit of selling my content online. We are selling tickets to this tour exclusively here on louisck.com. I only wanted to do this if there was a way, like with LIVE AT THE BEACON, that it could bring t…

Post by glanch » Tue, Jun 26, 2012, 2:30 PM UTC

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"...It was a real challenge to find venues around the country that could work with our exclusive ticketing service under these perameters. It means I'm playing in very new places. I really appreciate all of these theaters that are letting us give this a try."

We did a charity concert at one of those venues. Between ticketmaster's cut, and their $$$ mail you a ticket charge or the $$ print your own ticket fee and the tax that somehow we don't get back because we aren't a big enough charity It would have been better to make it free and pass a hat around

Post by jeffool » Tue, Jun 26, 2012, 4:06 PM UTC

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The fans would know about the discount, so I'm sure they'd be more than happy to give their name and show a driver's license at the door.

Let's also have some backscatter imagers to make sure nobody brings weapons into the venue. Emulating the airlines is a business model guaranteed to succeed!