Pricing Rules: Pre-sale and virtual memberships

We trying to work through the steps and changes that may be needed to use the new Pricing Rules and  two questions within Development seem to take us in circles

1) Virtual memberships -- memberships start the first of the next month so a person becoming a new member would be given a constituency that begins the first of the next month (true too for upgrades when constituencies change).  

The rules says the constituency must be active  -- based on the above the virtual membership will not work since membership/constituency will not be active until the next month.

TRUE or FALSE?

2)  Pre-sales  -- rather than discounts we tend to do more pre-sale for members.   Since by definition prior to public sales -- it is possible to set a pricing rule that allows members to login and buy ahead of public sales.   

TRUE or FALSE?

Thanks for settling these debates!