Sad to hear that; but I've always suspected that most stores will 'jack up' the regular price to have a sale on it, so that it appears to we unsuspecting consumers that we're getting a great deal when instead of say 50 percent off it's probably only 10-25 percent and the store might not get as much profit but they sure aren't giving a real 50 percent off the price before they jacked it up. I usually just shop at my LQS but have so much I can shop in my own stash - as probably many of us can - unless I need something specific. And if i need it quickly, I'll go to Amazon cause my LQS it like 60 miles away; and I don't go that way very often, so is totally out of my way. Our 'hobby' is expensive enough without people adding to it by overpricing their items when they have a sale so they think they can 'fool' us that we're getting this great deal (not).