Apparently many ConstitutionDAO participants have been screwed because in order to get their money back they've had to pay transaction fees which exceed 200$. Quite the racket.
To this day, it still trades for ~10X its initial value on Uniswap: https://info.uniswap.org/#/tokens/0x7a58c0be72be218b41c608b7...
Anyone who bought more than ~$50 of DAO tokens before the auction could stand to make a profit on the aftermarket even accounting for gas fees.
In case it needs to be said: this all seems crazy to me, but it is what it is.
this isnt like a ticketmaster convenience fee, everything on that network costs that much
Anyone using ETH would presumably have been aware about the enormous fees involved.