The excitement generated by the Smashing Pumpkins’ surprise show announcement at the 9:30 Club has expired, just like the tiny gray countdown clock that has been taunting us for past hour. We didn’t get tickets. Unlike Ticketmaster, Tickets.com sends the user into a virtual waiting room that refreshes every 30 seconds automatically. This eliminates the need for incessant clicking of the refresh button, but with it goes any seemingly active role the user has in succeeding.

A mere 20 minutes after the sale officially started at 10 a.m., resale posts began to appear on Craigslist. While starting bids tease you in with amount closer to the original cost of the tickets (or in some cases, a preposterous $1 offer), don’t expect to pay what you see on the screen. We have heard stories of offers of at least $125 per ticket and as much as $530.

Did you manage to get tickets to the show? How did you do it? And more importantly, how much do you want for them?