So, your beef here is that you paid $10 for a worthless piece of HAMSTER, and have just discovered that it's an even bigger worthless piece of HAMSTER. Either way, Cryptic still gets your support... This sort of thing happens all the time, with both real and virtual products. You can blow thousands of dollars on a computer…
I'm puzzled as to why people are panicking so much over this. Inflation works both ways. Sure, it means that items will cost more in the AH, but it also means that items you find will sell for more. Since many in-game items sell for a fixed amount of AD in NPC shops, you may very well find it easier to obtain that mount…