The fair seemed to be on a power trip.
They used all of their power to prevent a mutually agreed reversal of the transaction, and then stepped all over other rules that they didn't want to follow.
I generally cannot comprehend why this happen - it doesn't even benefit the fair even if this went unreported and under the radar. It's being evil for evil's sake and things that I thought made Marvel movies unwatchable because the bad guys don't make sense doing what they did.