A Surrey, B.C., woman who posted a Craigslist ad seeking a rock band to "pay back" her noisy neighbours says the incident has been resolved without anyone getting thumped with a subwoofer.

Michelle Harlington said her email inbox is being overwhelmed with responses after she posted the ad titled "Need bass to annoy my neighbours."

"The two young kids beside me blast their subwoofer 24/7," Harlington wrote in her post.

Living in her townhome was like "living next door to a nightclub," she told CBC News.

Harlington said she was having a nervous breakdown after putting her life savings into the Morgan Creek townhouse.

So earlier this week the 39-year-old posted an ad on Craigslist looking for a three-piece band to play at her house.

"I'll buy the beer and your cab ride to and from Vancouver plus $200 to play from 4-10 p.m.," she wrote.

More than 40 bands and dozens of people with similar stories and frustrations responded to her ad, leaving Harlington unable to keep up with responses.

"Maybe I was a little bit serious. I think I was just at the end of my rope at that point," she told CBC.

Subwoofer disconnected

But it sounds like Harlington won't need the concert in the end. She believes her neighbours found out about the ad as the husband has since come over to make peace.

"[He] said that they've unplugged the subwoofer and it's now in the garage … so yeah!"

But Danette Sheehan, one of the noisy neighbours, said the situation could have been handled better.

"I'm pretty shocked ... that they'd handle it in a way that is obviously not going to get to any sort of adult resolution," she told CBC News.

Sheehan said that once she went into Harlington's home and heard the effect the subwoofer had, she felt terrible. Still, she said, the situation did not need to be taken to such lengths.

"Fighting conflict with conflict just seems ... I would expect that from a child not from an adult."

Harlington said she'd like to see a ban on the use of stereo equipment like subwoofers, which she thinks are just too loud for townhomes and apartments.

"I feel that it really resonates with people because we all have that story, we all have that experience of noise from neighbours," she said.

But she admits there could have been other ways she could have handled the incident.

"In all fairness to my neighbours, they didn't know that it was so bad coming through my walls, but I kind of put up with it for longer than maybe I should have."