How to Get Presale Concert Tickets

During the week of October 23, 2006, many of the young people listening to KROQ in Los Angeles hoped to get tickets to the concert by My Chemical Romance at the House of Blues in Hollywood. KROQ was one of a number of radio stations that regularly sponsored ticket presales. As a sponsor of such presales, KROQ would often give away some of the concert tickets before they were released to the general public. 

How could a listener get one of those concert tickets? Many times for radio contests, the DJ would invite people to call in to the station. He would promise a ticket to a certain caller, giving that caller a number. Let’s say that that number was 20. Then the station would start to number the calls to the station, and the 20th caller would get the free concert tickets. 

Other ticket presales take place online, and they typically begin a few days before the tickets go on sale to the general public. The online tickets are provided to those with a password. The password holder types the password into the designated space and submits it to the web site office. That office then sends the password holder the concert tickets. 

So how does anybody get hold of one of those passwords? Sometimes the performing group will distribute the password to selected individuals, such as fan club members. Sometimes the group’s promoter will arrange for distribution of the password. Additionally, many individuals who have access to the presale password will sell it online. Ebay has many listings of auctions for presale concert ticket passwords. Also, there are websites, such as Presale Password and Presale Now that exclusively handle the selling of presale concert passwords.