Presale Passwords FAQs

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.

How Can I Get a Generic Password?

This blog is a solid place to start :). Also try searching at news.ticketstumbler.com.

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!