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Louis CK selling tickets to latest tour exclusively on his site

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Re: Louis CK selling tickets to latest tour exclusively on his site

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Post by excuse-me »

ryanwhitney wrote: post #17

"Also, you'll see that if you try to sell the ticket anywhere for anything above the original price, we have the right to cancel your ticket (and refund your money). this is something I intend to enforce." I thought this was great at first, but I wonder how this will work. Won't canceling the ticket hurt the person who buys it from a scalper? I don't see a way for him to stop scalpers from selling them, and after it'…

Knowing that might not be allowed in reduces the chance that you will buy a scalped ticket, which increases the risk for the scalper, which decreases their profit margin - which means they will pre-buy fewer tickets.

Otherwise it's going to be instantly sold out by scripted bots.

Re: Louis CK selling tickets to latest tour exclusively on his site

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Post by ryanwhitney »

roc wrote: post #30
ryanwhitney wrote: post #17

"Also, you'll see that if you try to sell the ticket anywhere for anything above the original price, we have the right to cancel your ticket (and refund your money). this is something I intend to enforce." I thought this was great at first, but I wonder how this will work. Won't canceling the ticket hurt the person who buys it from a scalper? I don't see a way for him to stop scalpers from selling them, and after it'…

Possibly. But I think the key difference is that Ticketmaster, et al. aren't promoting this. So no-one is likely to even realize these events are occurring unless they've gone to, or were directed to, louisck.net. So that leaves, most likely but not by no means certainly, only people who buy scalped tickets who should've known better. And I can't imagine they'll find any sympathetic ears, or amount to a notable conti…

"only people who buy scalped tickets who should've known better"

I'm under the impression that you can still resell tickets, but not for over face value. So people are still going to see tickets for sale on sites other than louisck.net. And those who check his site and see SOLD OUT will probably head out pretty quickly instead of sitting around to read the terms of sale.

A consumer seeing tickets on a third party site, checking Louie's site and seeing "sold out" then search again on third party sites seems very plausible.

Surely some transactions will get through on third party sites before his people can get it taken down. And a no-sympathy approach towards those buyers would be a terrible move.

Re: Louis CK selling tickets to latest tour exclusively on his site

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Post by lftl »

pud wrote: post #13

Part of me is happy that he's getting rid of scalpers. The other part of me likes knowing that I can always get tickets for sold out shows from Stubhub. Unrelated- He's using eTix.com and I think he killed them. Trying to buy tickets for SF show and getting "Please wait while accessing the system...." from eTix.com.

I think he would have been really savvy to sell a large percentage of the tickets up front for the standard price, and then auction the remaining bit off as the time for the event nears. Cut out the scalpers, give a fair shake to the people who love you and will jump in line day 1, and get a good bonus from the few who prefer the convenience at the expense of cost.

Re: Louis CK selling tickets to latest tour exclusively on his site

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Post by alan_cx »

brunorsini wrote: post #3

Not only he is one of the sharpest comedians on earth, he's also quickly becoming our lead crusader against exploitative middle men. Louie, you are our century's Montaigne.

Couldn't agree more.

However, there is a slight snag to that: its unlikely he could have pulled this off with out first getting a huge following from the traditional media and all those middle men.

Don't get me wrong, what he is doing is brilliant. And Im so glad that it is Louis CK doing this who I was already a fan of. That down load of his gig for $5 was the perfect example of what we want, an artist in control selling his art of a damn reasonable price, and making good money too. Plenty of people did pirate it, but more than enough bought it. But what we need to see work is people working their way to a similar position, making the same sort of money, but with out having traditional media putting them there first.

What Louis CK is doing is brilliant, but it needs to grow and spread. Im rather hoping that somewhere in the back ground he is passing what he has learned on to fellow artists and this thing can grow.

Re: Louis CK selling tickets to latest tour exclusively on his site

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Post by goatforce5 »

stoic wrote: post #21
drzaiusapelord wrote: post #5

I wonder if he's having issues with being denied access to certain venues. The reason why ticketmaster and the rest can get away with those fees is because they give a kickback to the venue owner. The venue owner can tell acts to get lost if they don't go through the ticket vendor that gives them $5 per ticket for nothing. Obviously CK is a huge act and you can't blacklist him, but you may need his level of star powe…

I only checked the Texas shows, but the Magnolia Theatre in Dallas is a pretty "classic" theatre that has hosted plenty of top-tier comedians, and ACL Live in Austin books all kinds of heavy-hitting musical acts in addition to the stuff you see on the Austin City Limits television show. Not exactly comedy-specific clubs, but probably more appropriate than the places run by Ticketbastard/AEG Live. They're certainly st…

I'm curious... I went through to the buy page and there was a big notice saying that the tickets might become Will Call tickets.

Do you have a ticket you can print out now, or are they telling you to turn up on the night of the show with ID?

(I'm seeing him during September in Toronto - tickets available exclusively through Ticketmaster! http://jfl42.com/ )

Re: Louis CK selling tickets to latest tour exclusively on his site

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Post by roc »

forrestthewoods wrote: post #22

I fully understand the hatred of scalpers but I also kinda like knowing they're an option. I've bought a few overpriced tickets to events I really wanted to attend. I like that I can attend most events I'm interested in so long as I'm willing to pay for it. Is it worth $150 for a $50 ticket? Not usually, but sometimes.

There are plenty of systems that give those willing to pay more a better chance at securing tickets.

But what it really comes down to, is that it's hard to square any of those systems with many artists' desire to keep ticket prices as affordable as possible, so that their 'true' fans aren't priced out by profiteers, suits or yuppie douchebags.

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