Farfetch,
The fees seem quite a bit out if line with what I have seen, something seems amiss. There is a lot of discussion on this topic as you know but in general you are simply posting a bond that means that you will be returning the bike back to it's home country and you get the bond back. Why there is a discrepancy between the amount returned on discharge and your original bond is unclear to me, when I dealt with the CAA last year there was no such discrepancy.
If they are actually charging you that much for some reason, and you can't do any better, you are welcome to see if it is possible to transfer my carnet over to you and I'll charge you a big, fat zero. Then you can spend the rest of the money on more important things like gas and 
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