Originally Posted by arollins

OP, dont feel bad for what others have posted about their cash offers to downgrade, most likely these occur at the gate on the flight date and it was a mainline flights. It appears that in your case a change occurred ahead of time and AA wanted to remedy it. Had you said no, they would have most likely moved on and called another F passenger that would have accepted it. The moment to negotiate the deal is when the call came through.