Unfair Student Upgrde Policy - CS5.5 to CS6

I spent months saving to get the £250 to buy Photoshop CS5.5 and Lightroom 4 using my Student status. I am also disabled, on a fixed income.
When CS6 was launched I was thrilled as I had tried the beta and loved it. BUT I was told that I had ordered SIX DAYS too early and couldn't get the free upgrade. What is more, there is no upgrade price for Students, you have to pay the full £190 AGAIN.
This has to be wrong, it's certainly unfair. It's like taking someones £1000 for the full priced product but then saying that you have to pay the £1000 again to upgrade when your product is less than two month old.
Thanks Adobe, I am GUTTED
I had even come up with a Faux IR in CS6 with doesn't work in CS5.5!!

How dare you judge me, you know nothing about me, so here you are I’ll tell you.
I am not a Spotty Teenager, I am 56 years old, and am disabled due in part to a brain tumour. I am taking a home study Professional Photography course just to feel I am archiving something, as I am not capable of attending a college.
I only came on here at the suggestion of Adobe Support, I don’t do forums as I have never got any real help from any in the past. I did do some research as to when CS6 was going to be released, but found nothing concrete. As I was using a grey copy, I wanted to buy a legal copy as soon as I could afford it, SO I DID.
Yes I am peeved about not getting the Free Upgrade, for the sake of six days, but I do strongly feel that the 80% discount should be applied for Student Upgrades, this would provide a more even pricing policy. If I am still alive when CS7 arrives, I will count myself as very lucky, but I will not have student status by then and there is no way I will ever be able to afford the full product, short of winning the lottery.
As far as not having the time to learn the product features properly, you couldn't bre more wrong. I find out what I need when I need it. How do you think I devised the Faux IR work round in CS6. I could not find one I thought close enough to the real thing in CS5.5, so I playend in CS6 Beta and devised my own way of doing it, and it doesn't work in othe versions, I've tried it.
It seems to me by most of the comments on here that, they are born out of having to pay the full retail, and not liking someone getting a good deal, “Sour Grapes” just about covers it. A forum is supposed to be of help to people, if you can’t say anything constructive the don’t say anything at all!!

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