I'm pretty surprised by this as well. A decade ago (when I was in school) my internships were $16, $18 and then $20 an hour. The "staffing company" may be part of your challenge - they are probably taking a cut and the major notebook manu doesn't realize it. Have you looked for an internship through your school? That was where I found all of mine.

Having bought the DLC and run the quest - I tend to agree with you. The $5 quest that is pushed on you (Warden's Keep) results in getting your own personal castle that you can store stuff in and several vendors to sell you stuff. I'm ~12-ish hours into the game and haven't found an alternative place to store extra loot. This content is so well integrated into the game, that had it not been for the PAX pair, I wouldn't have realized that it was an extra add on. The other available DLC is so obviously tacked on that it is nearly painful (you get a stone golem...for $15). I had picked up the Warden's keep DLC while concentrating very hard on my last conference call on the day the game was released and staring intently at the Dragon Age start screen. *Cough*

More than that, their website also says "your software purchase" repeatedly. If they are actually selling a license, they should be liable for misrepresentation because nowhere does it affirm that the user is only buying a license (well, up through the part where you have to enter a credit card number - i don't actually want their software).