News: The iTunes Pre-Sale - What We Know

We’ve been getting a lot of questions about the iTunes/Ticketmaster pre-sale promotions. Most of the questions being asked have been addressed at one point or another over the past week but details like that can easily get lost in the torrent of news, articles, reviews that get posted on the site so here’s a quick summary of what we know that will, hopefully, clear some things up for those with questions:

• According to the pre-sale page on iTunes (no longer available), US pre-sale passwords should be sent out on Monday, May 25th.
• UK pre-sale passwords, we’re told, will be sent on Friday, May 22nd.
• According to Live Daily, the US pre-sales are scheduled to start on Thursday, May 28th. UK pre-sales appear to be scheduled for Saturday, May 23rd.
• Pre-sale passwords are not included with the receipt of your purchase from iTunes. They will be sent separately.
• Pre-sale passwords will be sent from iTunes. Still, it wouldn’t hurt to make sure iTunes, apple.com, ToriAmos.com, and ticketmaster.com/.co.uk are not blocked by any spam filters so that the delivery of your password is not delayed.

With all that said, we hasten to point out that we are not the authority on this stuff. Ultimately, that would be some combination of Tori’s management, iTunes and Ticketmaster. We know iTunes and Ticketmaster have been playing a game of pass-the-buck when folks have been calling them so it is frustrating to find anything concrete out about this. Nevertheless, we’re pretty sure that the points above are, to the best of our knowledge, accurate.

And rest assured: soon as we hear that the pre-sale passwords have started to arrive, we’ll be sure alert the troops…