Wow. My wrong I.D. of a fish sure got out of hand. It's kind of funny some of the people here are so concerned on what I paid for it. It's my money,and I paid what I thought it was worth for where I live. I had planned on paying to have one shipped to me,and because I found one locally,it was much cheaper than having a silver or black shipped. It's a great fish. It loves to eat,and cruise at the top of the tank. I could not be happier with it.
Also, none of your prices are accurate, maybe for your area, but I have seen these fish go for MUCH different prices and you also didn't account size into this.
As long as you are happy with your new aro, who cares what you paid, I very rarely actually take the initial price into consideration, I consider whether I can afford to feed and take care of another monster.
nice silver...you will be more then thrilled with it...just don't mix bad tankmates with it...i have had some bad luck this spring with silvers...5 eatten, 2 jumpped to there death, 8 killed each other...now i have 1...