New Pricing on Mac App Store

My apologies if this is a bad place to put this, but yesterday the Mac App Store opened up with APerture 3 pricing set at $79.99. I just purchased Aperture about 1-2 weeks ago for $165. OUCH. Apple ... any relief on this for us groveling types?
"In its just-launched Mac App Store, Apple has priced a new license of Aperture 3 at US$79.99, or about US$119 less than when the same software is purchased through both online and brick-and-mortar Apple Stores in the U.S."

Hi Letynx, its good you got some money back. I purchased Apeture on 19th November from the Regent Street store in London and today I found about the price on Mac Store. I really am outraged about this as I use the product for personal use and to see the price drop so significantly in the app store version I feel genuinely ripped off. I could understand if the product was brand new and this was the initial price drop but Aperture 3 has been around for a while.
*What Ive done so far..*
1. I contacted customer services by phone who werent aware of the price on the app store. Off the record the guy who took the call said if the price has dropped as much as I was saying then he said they were going to get a lot of calls on this. After checking the price himself he talked to apple care team and they said they couldnt do anything as I had purchased it from the store. They gave me the store number and said contact them.
2. Called the store and they said they could do nothing and I had to log it on the www.apple.com/feedback site under Aperture. The lady I spoke to was confident I would get a response and that I should go through the feedback route.
3. Earlier today I logged a call www.apple.com/feedback and so far no response.
I will wait till Tuesday to see if I get anything and I know Im not alone with this issue and I urge people in the same situation to log on here and go through the feedback route and hope apple will listen.
*I really feel I have been cheated out of hard earned cash here !* Really would like to hear from other UK users in the same position.

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