How do I downgrade back to Lion and get a refund?

Purchased Mountain Lion yesterday to try and use the latest newest features. I do not own any iOS devices (prefer Android over iOS) so several of the updates do not even apply to me (such as iCloud).
Notifications does not work in all my apps (however Growl still works with almost all of them)
Messages is just as bad as Messages Beta for Lion was so I still am using Adium
Airport Mirroring is lagged so I can't use it as a second monitor (still have to run a long HDMI cable accross the livingroom)
Safari updates don't matter as I feel Safari is good for one thing, downloading Chrome.
I do not use ANY of the features of the new Mountain Lion. I would like to downgrade back to Lion and get a refund. Is there a way to do this?

killhippie wrote:
Try doing a clean install from the hidden partition if you have one.
Just an FYI.... After Mountain Lion is installed, the Recovery HD is updated to Recovery HD-10.8. This means if I want to reinstall OS X from the Recovery HD, I will be reinstalling Mountain Lion not Lion. I would need to have the Lion Recovery HD on a USB thumb drive, use Internet Recovery (Lion pre-installed systems) or some other means to be able to reinstall Lion.

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