As an aside, it's genuinely interesting that the OP has still not returned.
Is it interesting? I'd call it unremarkable. If they dare to not return within a day or so, "oh its a one-post-wonder" has been a nasty call-out by some for as long as I've been on AFF. Regular AFFers seem to assume that newbies have the same need to get daily or hourly fixes of AFF - for the most part, they don't. We hope that may get into the swing of it, but sometimes, having been sneered at as "one post wonders", they don't bother returning, and who could blame them.
There was one well-known case where the OP was really 'taken down' by multiple members for being a 'one post wonder', but yes, they came back, after a week, excusing the fact of not returning sooner because, IIRC, their wife just had a baby.
I try to maintain a 'be nice to newbies' policy and give them the benefit of the doubt. If they don't return - who cares? If they stay and stir, well, there are ways to deal with that.
Personally, from what I've seen here (and thanks to the OP for raising the issue
), there doesn't seem like much gouging going on, except for last minute fares, but then so what else is new?