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Ripped off--cheated.
A tourist complained to me that a local merjchant cheater her. I asked how he did that and she had bought a sourvenir for $2 and right down the street a store had the same thing for $1.50. I responded, "So you fail to comparison shop and blame the merchant." It's not unusual I see a Kindle book on a site being offered from free and six months ago I paid $2 for it. Do I feel ripped off? No, I laugh and think, "Isn't that always the way?" Actually it isn't but it can feel that way.
The only time I feel ripped off or cheated is when I buy something that simply doesn't perform as advertised. I bought an RCA television that said on the front, "Stereo" and I couldn't get the sound right through my amplifier. Then I learned that it wasn't stereo. I felt cheated and ripped off.
Items go on sale. That's life. Kindle could have dropped the price on PW2 to, oh, $99 so they could deplete their stock and then come out with the new PW3 that had been in production for 60 days. I find that an offensive marketing strategy but I still wouldn't feel cheated or ripped off. I specifically waited to buy a camera I wanted until the new model came out and the older model dropped to half the previous price. It's a great camera.
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