If you've made it to the end of this long tome I thank you for reading my venting.
OP your complaining and ranting to various redcoats sounds entitled and whiny and gives FF's a bad name. You know how the game is played. You negotiated and you accepted. We have all been screwed in the VDB game...and we have all won in the VDB game. Such is life.
As someone else said, if you negotiated a price on an item, felt happy and accepted it, then went home and found your neighbor got a better deal...would you go back and expect them to give you more?