If you’ve spent any reasonable amount of time on ticketmaster.com you’ve noticed the multitude of American Express Gold Card presales. Ticketmaster has a partnership in place with American Express where they offer presale tickets to Amex gold level cardholders for many popular events. This is a great perk for Amex gold card members, however, the catch is that American Express charges a fee of about $125 per year for the gold card (if you can even qualify). Fortunately, there’s a simple way to get American Express Gold Card presale tickets without even needing to have an Amex gold credit card.

The only two things you need are the following:

1. The presale code for the Amex gold card presales. This is always the customer service phone number on the back of the gold card. Here is one number that has always worked for me, just copy and paste it into the presale code box on ticketmaster.com when the presale starts: 8006391202

2. Any American Express credit card. It does not have to be a gold card, ANY Amex card will do. Ticketmaster only checks to verify that the ticket order is being made using an American Express card; they have no way of verifying whether or not it’s a gold card.

Another great tip for staying on top of the Amex gold card ticket presales is to sign-up for their weekly event email updates. I am signed-up for all the major cities (New York, Boston, San Francisco, etc) and they send out weekly updates with upcoming presale information which is very useful.

If you don’t have an American Express card, you can easily sign-up for one. I personally love my American Express cards for their member rewards and their customer service, so it’s great to have one both for the gold card ticket presales, and just in general.

I have ordered literally hundreds of tickets using American Express gold card presales using the above method with 100% success.