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louis c.k. Louis C.K. Now Selling Tickets Straight to Fans 
  
 Selling his last stand-up comedy special straight to fans for $5 through PayPal was a million-dollar success, and now Louis C.K. is personally selling tickets to his live dates. He'll hit a ton of spots from October through February (including five NYC dates), all for $45 apiece, no matter where the seat. In a blast to his mailing list, C.K. writes: "Making my shows affordable has always been my goal but two things have always worked against that. High ticket charges and ticket re-sellers marking up the prices. Some ticketing services charge more than 40% over the ticket price and, ironically, the lower I've made my ticket prices, the more scalpers have bought them up, so the more fans have paid for a lot of my tickets. By selling the tickets exclusively on my site, I've cut the ticket charges way down and absorbed them into the ticket price." 
  
 Depending on what lens $45 is viewed through, it can look like a lot or not so much. Considered in tandem with the fact that C.K. is one of the most massive comics working today, it's not too shabby. According to C.K.'s e-mail, the price is "less than anyone has actually paid to see me (after ticket charges) in about two years and in most cases it's about half of what you paid last year." 
  
 The subversion of typical promotional companies has necessitated new venues for much of C.K.'s next new comedy hour (and it will be new: for the uninitiated, C.K. scraps all his material each year and presses reset) — a Masonic Temple in Detroit, the David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa, and a slew of mega-conglomerate-free theater titles. C.K.'s folks will also cancel tickets scalped for anything other than the original price, as well ("this is something I intend to enforce," he writes). 
  
 "Doing things this way means I'm making less than I would have made if I did a standard tour, using the usual very excellent but expensive ticketing service. ... But I like doing more shows and about a year ago I reached a place where I realized I am making enough money doing comedy so the next thing that interested me is bringing your price down," C.K. says. "Either way, I still make a whole lot more than my grandfather who taught math and raised chickens in Michigan." ||||| Based on the success he found with selling his special online, CK emailed his fans to let them know about the upcoming tour and unilateral pricing. Again, he cuts out the middle man to put the fans in direct business with the artist. 
  
 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 the price of tickets down and make them easier and less 
  
 complicated to buy. We figured out a way. 
  
  
  
 Making my shows affordable has always been my goal but two things 
  
 have always worked against that. High ticket charges and ticket 
  
 re-sellers marking up the prices. Some ticketing services charge 
  
 more than 40% over the ticket price and, ironically, the lower 
  
 I’ve made my ticket prices, the more scalpers have bought them 
  
 up, so the more fans have paid for a lot of my tickets. 
  
  
  
 By selling the tickets exclusively on my site, I’ve cut the 
  
 ticket charges way down and absorbed them into the ticket price. 
  
 To buy a ticket, you join NOTHING. Just use your credit card and 
  
 buy the damn thing. opt in to the email list if you want, and 
  
 you’ll only get emails from me. 
  
  
  
 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. There are some other rules you may find annoying but 
  
 they are meant to prevent someone who has no intention of seeing 
  
 the show from buying the ticket and just flipping it for twice 
  
 the price from a thousand miles away. 
  
  
  
 Some of these rules may be a pain in your ass, but please be 
  
 patient. My goal here is that people coming to see my shows are 
  
 able to pay a fair price and that they be paying just for a 
  
 ticket. Not also paying an exhorbanant fee for the privalege of 
  
 buying a ticket. 
  
  
  
 Tickets across the board, everywhere, are 45 dollars. That’s 
  
 what you’ll actually pay. In every case, that will be less than 
  
 anyone has actually paid to see me (after ticket charges) in 
  
 about two years and in most cases it’s about half of what you 
  
 paid last year. 
  
  
  
 The benifit for me is that I won’t get angry emails from anyone 
  
 who paid a ton of money to see me due to circumstances out of my 
  
 control. That makes me VERY happy. The 45 dollars also includes 
  
 sales tax, which I’m paying for you. So I’m making more or less 
  
 depending on the state. 
  
  
  
 Another benifit to me is also one to you. I get your email 
  
 address (if you opt in) when you opt in. You don’t have to join 
  
 ANYTHING to buy these tickets and if you opt in, youll only hear 
  
 from me once in an old man’s jizz-cycle. 
  
  
  
 Obviously none of this means anything if the shows aren’t good. 
  
 So that’s up to me. As I do every year, I’ll be performing a 
  
 brand new hour (or more) on all of these shows. 
  
  
  
 Lastly, 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. 
  
  
  
 Setting up this tour has been fascinating and difficult. this 
  
 ticketing service is a brand new thing and I really fucking hope 
  
 it works and that there aren’t any problems. If anything comes 
  
 up, please be patient. 
  
  
  
 Doing things this way means I”m making less than I would have 
  
 made if I did a standard tour, using the usual very excellent but 
  
 expensive ticketing service. In some cities I’ve had to play 
  
 smaller venues and do more shows. But I like doing more shows 
  
 and about a year ago I reached a place where I realized I am 
  
 making enough money doing comedy so the next thing that 
  
 interested me is bringing your price down. Either way, I still 
  
 make a whole lot more than my grandfather who taught math and 
  
 raised chickens in Michigan. 
  
  
  
 alright, that’s it, folks. I’ll be sending this message out to 
  
 folks on the opt-in list and sending a separate email that lays 
  
 it out much more simply with the proper links. I am doing this 
  
 because when I emailed you about LIVE AT CARNEGIE HALL, (which is 
  
 still on sale for 5 dollars!) about half of the people who got 
  
 the email really enjoyed the long, verbose, unedited message. 
  
 The other half HATED it and would have preffered a price, a link, 
  
 and me shutting the fuck up. 
  
  
  
 This way, you can read this if you like, or your can just see the 
  
 massive shit-ball of text and throw it in the garbage, and focus 
  
 on the simple email. 
  
  
  
 I hope to see you all on the road. 
  
  
  
 regards, 
  
  
  
 Louis C.K. 
  
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Louis CK did very, very well when he decided to sell his self-produced comedy album directly to fans, so now he's using that same model to sell tickets to his upcoming tour. Rather than going through a ticketing service—notorious for adding on ridiculous charges—the comedian is selling the tickets only on his website, for $45 apiece, which he says is about half of what most people paid to see him last year. And the implied "eff you" is not just to ticketing services but to re-sellers as well: Anyone who attempts to sell a ticket for more than the original price will find that ticket canceled and refunded. "Doing things this way means I'm making less than I would have made if I did a standard tour," CK writes in an email reprinted by Pop Culture Brain. "But I like doing more shows and about a year ago I reached a place where I realized I am making enough money doing comedy so the next thing that interested me is bringing your price down. Either way, I still make a whole lot more than my grandfather who taught math and raised chickens in Michigan." Vulture takes a look at the tour schedule and notes that "the dates are spaced so the most publicly filthy single dad of all time can properly care for his daughters half of each week," writes Zach Dionne. "Helluva guy, all around."