it'll feel like we saved over 5,500 bucks, not lost a little less than 500

Quite a story, at some point, you get angry, and then some times, you laugh at yourself. It will heal in a week 😀. I have gone through few like this - I prefer to buy many things offline after those incidences. Quoting a very recent example of buying an AC, the very reputed brand's site quoted me a price with discount, which was 20 % more than the price that a nearby trader offered. Had I not talked to the offline guy, I would have never realized.