I'll repeat what Zeus posted earlier, as you may have missed it. Zeus, who may be in the top 5% of the game with regards to wealth, couldn't care less about the 10M for the gold vanity sink. What I think needs to be addressed is that even if you add a sink, those players with 100M+ gold and 50m+ in items can merch several million a day. With 100M, you can merch all the arlor vanities you want, as well as arcane weapons and the new mythics.
I think a safe assumption is that 75% of those with that much money play over 6 hours a day, so merching those items would make, for argument's sake, 5M a day. Way more if they don't use auction. A 50M gold sink? Just over a weeks work.
Maybe the numbers are off, but the core concept remains. It's even echoed in the common advice given to new players: "As you make money, you can begin to merch more expensive items, and make more money with each trade." I can't think of a solution at the moment, but I don't think adding expensive gold sinks will make much of a difference to the players this thread is centred around. It'll just become more of a nuisance for them, having to buy that "dumb new arcane pet" (to have everything), and work to get the money back.
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