Whelp, that put a damper on my Thanksgiving break

Bought the championship Thresh figure and had it sent to my house in Florida as Riot doesn't ship to PO boxes. Flew down from Pennsylvania, opened up the box, and... saw that the free skin expired 10 days earlier. I was really disappointed as the deciding factor on whether or not to get the statue was the free (and badass) skin that came with it. Given how much of the League population is made of college students, I'm really surprised this sort of thing happened. Anyone else feel sorta screwed over?