Buying tickets for a concert at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre @ Encore Park is simple in theory. However, there are actually a number of different options available for purchasing tickets, some of which can yield a cheaper ticket price than others. Here are your options:

Date	On-Sale: TicketMaster	On-Sale: TicketMaster	Re-Sale: StubHub	Covered Seating Prices $	Lawn $	Premier Parking
Jul 30	Steve Miller Band	TicketMaster	Find Tickets	$76, $59, $49	$39	Available
Aug 5	SugarLand	TicketMaster	Find Tickets	$70.50, $60.50	$34	Available
Aug 7	ASO: Disney in Concert	TicketMaster		$59, $51, $48, $37, $27	$27
Aug 9	Green Day	TicketMaster	Find Tickets	$85	$35	Available
Aug 11	Arcade Fire w/ Spoon	TicketMaster	Find Tickets	$46	$36
Aug 14	ASO: The Wizard of OZ	TicketMaster		$59, $51, $48, $37, $27	$27
Aug 15	O.A.R. with Citizen Cope	TicketMaster	Find Tickets	$37.50	$37.50	Available
Aug 19	Sheryl Crow	TicketMaster	Find Tickets	$69, $59, $54, $39	$28	Available
Aug 21	Maroon 5, Kris Allen, VV Brown	TicketMaster	Find Tickets	$54	$29
Aug 26	Dukes of September	TicketMaster	Find Tickets	$89, $69	$25	Available
Aug 28	STS9 with the Disco Biscuits	TicketMaster	Find Tickets	$39.50	$25	Available
Sep 24	Widespread Panic	TicketMaster	Find Tickets	$47	$47	Available
Sep 25	Widespread Panic	TicketMaster	Find Tickets	$47	$47	Available
Sep 29	RUSH	TicketMaster	Find Tickets	$89, $69	$40	Available
Oct 2	Michael W. Smith, Third Day, Toby Mac	TicketMaster	Find Tickets	$76, $47, $33, $31	$23	Available
Oct 3	Project 961 Family Reunion	TicketMaster		$59, $49, $9.61	$39

Encore Park has a Box Office that is supposed to be open every day; if you are in the Alpharetta area and can stop by the Amphitheatre you have a good chance at getting the best deal by buying directly at the box office. The Box office sells tickets for a flat $5 fee per ticket ($3 per ticket for ASO concerts) and no per-order surcharge (unlike TicketMaster).

A parking pass is included with your purchase. Except for the occasional cheapest tickets (such as $9.71 ticketmaster online-only special promotions), buying tickets at the box office is almost always cheaper than buying online due to the lower surcharges.

Box Office Hours:

• M-F: NOON to 4pm
• SAT: 10am to 2pm
• Day of Event: Closes 30 minutes after headliner takes the stage

Box Office Location:

The reseller market for tickets is enormous, with seemingly everyone trying to get a cut on ticket markup. Before you consider purchasing tickets on the reseller market (see Option 4 below), be sure to read Smart Money's article:

• 10 Things your Ticket Broker isn't telling you

There are more resellers than actual tickets that go on sale for any given concert. None of these resellers would be in business if you would have gotten your act together and gotten the tickets when they went on sale and/or you would realize that sitting in the pit is a want instead of a need. However, if you still have to get your tickets "now" irregardless of the markup, here are a few of the more notorious popular ticket resellers:

It happens; someone gets called out of town a week before they were going to the concert and just need to get rid of the tickets. The best place with the highest probability of finding reasonably priced tickets, many times at or below face value, is craigslist.

• Encore Park Listings @ Craigs List

In addition, many times for sold-out concerts, tickets are released within the last few days of the show, or even just at the box office the night of the show. Check the ticketmaster.com links above the last few days up to the day of the show to see if more tickets have been released.