avios help

I know I'm probably screwed, but I thought I would post it here anyway just on the odd chance someone has any kind of work around. Got completely screwed over; I checked first to see if award travel was available for the dates I was looking at. Confirmed it was. Transferred points from credit card to avios and then of course when I went to check out, it said I couldn't use the points because I didn't have enough. I had over 200,000 (??!!). So now I'm stuck with over 200,000 points in Aer Lingus. Anybody got any words of encouragement? I know this is always the first thing that burns people, but I swear I checked several times before transferring the points. Aer Lingus customer service is useless.