Am I getting taken advantage of or is this a pretty good deal?

I'm wondering why you didn't PM the OP to ask, instead of resurrecting an old, dead thread.

Phew, thank goodness it's an old thread, I was getting very depressed at the comment 'going into winter' we have only had 2 weeks of nice spring summer weather yet, and only a day here and there, not 2 weeks in a row