We’re pleased to introduce a free, simple ticket website that helps you determine everything that is going on sale for a given day: freeonsaledates.com.

Free Onsale Dates aggregates Ticketmaster and Livenation listings allowing you to easily view onsale ticket event information sorted by the time of sale and date. Additionally, using the search located in the upper right corner, you can search all available onsales.

Currently, Livenation and Ticketmaster do not offer this information, and many of the other sites that do charge for it. The basic service will always be free and depending upon demand, we may charge for premium features in the future.

If you have any feedback, feature requests or questions please email us at feedback [at] ticketstumbler [dot] com.

For those of you that missed it on our company blog, TicketStumbler introduced theatre tickets last week. This means we now have over $1 billion worth of sports, concert and theatre tickets. The following are the top five most popular theatre events for the week ending March 17, 2009. Not surprisingly, Wicked is at the very top. As one theatre ticket provider told me “Wicked makes our business”.

1. Wicked

2. Jersey Boys

3. Jeff Dunham

4. Phantom of the Opera

5. Billy Elliot

TicketStumbler is on twitter. For those you that don’t know what twitter is, watch this video. Give it a try – even Shaq is.

News.Ticketstumbler.com, found by clicking the news button in the menu bar is a socially powered ticket news site. News.TS feature sports, concert and theater ticket related news in addition to presale passwords. Go there and click on one of the arrows to see how it works.

Here’s a few recent highlights from News.TS:

-Ticketmaster to Power Live Music Ticket Sales On Billboard.com

-Five arrests made in UK over festival and Olympics tickets scandal

-Star-studded festival is Vintage reggae

-Album Chart: Beyonce logs her third straight #1 Album

-Thanksgiving Ticket Bullets

News.TicketStumbler.com is a user powered social ticket news site created to aggregate sports, concert, theater and ticket industry related news as well as presale password information. By copying the code below, we’ve added the ability to include the http://news.ticketstumbler.com widget on your blog or website.

Examples of the widget in use are on this blog (left sidebar) at news.ts (right side) and at Show Sanctuary. To add the code to your blog or website, please copy & paste the following code:

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What’s the Purpose of Presale Passwords?

For most concerts and events, tickets are released in batches.  Generally speaking, the best tickets go first to industry insiders, the artists and players themselves and friends of the artists and players. After that the fan club receives the next batch.  Finally, the remaining tickets are released to the general public. Although this isn’t always the case, if you want to go to an event, it’s usually worth having the presale password. This can not only help you get a better seat, but also improves your odds of landing tickets altogether.

Help! I Can’t Find the Presale Password Anywhere.

Lucky for you teams, artists and venues often use the same password over and over again. Below is a table with common presale passwords. Additionally, if you know the password for an artist or tour at one location, try the same password at other locations – it’s often the same one. If you can’t find it anywhere, the password could be a unique presale password.

What’s the Difference Between Unique Presale Passwords and Generic Presale Passwords?

Unique presale passwords can only be used once and are usually a combination of letters and numbers that do not form a word (e.g. 38FB6bLt19, Kj53aL, 73815B). A generic password can be used many times indefinitely and is usually a word, phrase or initials (e.g. ENERGY, TMDEAL, HOB). All presale passwords posted on our blog are generic passwords.

What’s the Advantage of Unique Presale Passwords?

Unique passwords directly limit the number of people who can purchase the batch of tickets as unique presale password expires after one use. Unique presale passwords are normally reserved and seen as perks for exclusive fan clubs and season ticket holders.

What’s the Advantage of Generic Passwords?

Although generic passwords only indirectly limit the amount of people who can buy tickets, they can temporarily create artificial demand and reward fans who sign up for email notifications from the team or artist. Generic passwords are usually for more open fans clubs and friends of season ticket holders.

How Can I Get a Unique Password?

The TicketStumbler Blog does not feature unique passwords for obvious reasons. We recommend joining the bands’ fan club. Or you could try Ebay, but we wouldn’t recommend it.

What is a CITI/VISA/AMEX presale? 

These presales are ones sponsored by CITI, VISA or AMEX. They usually require you to enter the first digits of the credit card or a phone number from the back of the card. Although we list some examples of what these passwords might be in our Common Presale Passwords table above, they do vary and some of these presales also require the actual purchase be made by the respective card.

None of the Above Worked. What Should I do as a Last Resort?

This is a little bit of a stretch, but I have had it work before. Try using different combinations of an artist’s name, tour, quick description, song etc (e.g. OAR, FUNNY, SEINFELD, NIN). Good luck!

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