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well personally it all depends on how the gaians carry it out...
if everyone would stop hikin up prices it would b easier but other than that i dont c wat da big deal is.
even gaia has to get its funds from somewhere n im pretty sure that their profit margin has gone way up.
besides, u still cannot trade wit gaiacash. u would have to buy somethin wit it and sell that or trade wit someone in order to receive a past item that has been removed from stores.
and its cuz of this that more often than not u can tell the noobs from the older members even if they have a bunch of stuff...
then again i think anybody thats spendin like fifty dollars a month on this really need somethin better to do...
most of my cash items i bought off the marketplace when they first came out n some i got as gifts from others. but i have a job so i just set aside 5 dollars per check for this so i can get 2 monthly collectables n i open one n save the other to sell later. it doesnt seem like much but it adds up to ten dollars a month that's put aside for gaia n i can spend it or i can save it for a month when i might not make enough to save (for instance i was out of work for over a week two weeks ago cuz i was sick n my check was a third of its usual size, so i just used my extra to get da monthly collectables)
i can c ur point on how it can mess us up in da long run but i still cant get mad at gaia for wantin to make money......
have u seen gas prices l8ly?!?!?! jk rofl

u no none of the stores near me have the cash cards so i just use my paypal account.
if u dont have a credit card, you can use ur home phone or mail it in wit snail-mail (that's how i use to do it xp )