Yes, that's exactly what I was saying and as a former regular air traveler, I used to go on standby pretty regularly with success and I have to think the airlines loved that because the seat I was giving up was on a more "prime time" flight. Same thing was happening in this case. They made it as if I was simply buying the ticket all over again, so that was a non-option. I just waited it out and actually had trouble finding two seats together. They could've used that extra space to resell twice while I was on an earlier train. Strange economics.