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I have no clue...Every thing I am questing has shot way up in price and is irking me!

I don't think the problem is with users pricing things too high. People are willing to buy them at these ridiculous prices, so it seems like there's too much gold in circulation. If everything was priced too high, people would stop buying. But they haven't, so it seems like the prices in the MP raised proportionally to the gold in the system. Meaning the average user is richer, but everything costs more.
Inflation's been rising like crazy for the past year or so. It seems to me like Gaia's spending all their time working on new cash items and features and mostly forgetting everything else. For example, aquariums pump so much gold into the system, but they make money. We have a couple gold sinks, but nothing even close to big enough to get rid of the extra gold from BG. So then that gold just stays in the system.
The only way I've been able to keep up is to try to spend my gold quickly on stuff like EI's and cash items so when those inflate in the MP, my account value still goes up.

True enough, but one of the things we are asking for is for our people to think of things we can propose to Gaia as viable gold sinks that won't make people rage.

There are other suggestions too, and like I said, we would love some more.

Personally, I think that it would be more effective to boycott all cash items and features until they prove that they are at least thinking of ways to reverse inflation, but it's really hard to make a boycott work since there's such a huge user base, many of whom won't even use the forums, so just getting a noticeable amount of people to even be aware of your cause is really hard.
The only protest of anything I'll ever seen work on Gaia was the complete s**t storm caused by users when they made all tobacco items soulbound. That was the most insane thing I've ever seen on the forums. XD

No, we are wanting to encourage pricing down. Exchange isn't off limits, but we encourage people to pay below AMP. For people who will continue to lurk the MP, we encourage to only buy when there are extraordinary deals (10% below AMP or better is the suggested), in an effort to lower the averages. We want to significantly reduce the instances of people buying for the sake of having, and make the sellers work to get people to buy. The main work will lie with the buyers by having them practice self restraint.

For the most part, we would ask people to please restrain from creating new transactions in the MP, but we can't dictate people's actions. No one is going to get stoned if they are a guildy that doesn't agree with all that we propose.

Our main goal is turning out to be creating solutions for the long haul. Our first operation, which happens to be our boycott, is just the opening statement. Hopefully, in a couple of months, we can have a comprehensive plan ironed out for people to sign a petition to. Then we will present it to the Gaian Administration. That is why we are needing support and suggestions. The more things that are thought of, the better our proposal will be.