We wouldn't have actually gotten to my house until probably around 12:30AM, and someone would have had to come get me at the airport (or wait, after meeting someone else arriving at 11PM or worse go home and come back). Taking $400 each with no tangible loss in my mind (what would I have been doing at my house from 12:30 AM to like 9, when I would have woken up vs. getting in around 11AM from the airport)...but yeah, I can see what you were saying. The flights before that one were overbooked but we were not confirmed on them. Therefore we could not volunteer our seats any sooner.