That's the risk you take with any kind of gambling.
Absolutely, not a problem at all.
I just hope that the Developers have a long term plan here for ultima Online.
That is, first the lottery to drain gold out of the game (though I think I recall reading posts mentioning it was not intended as a gold sink even though Atlantic was drained of about 10 billions from what I can read....), then finally give to players a global search for vendors regardless where they are to promote competition and therefore fight inflation in the game.
That is, that all that we are seeing belongs to a Master Plan to fight inflation in the game.
Step 1 - Reduce existing gold
Step 2 - Improve Vendors' searchability with a Global Search for Vendors which would necessarily enhance competition and thus reduce inflation.
I guess we need to see if all we are seeing belongs to a Greater Master Plan to address the curse of this game, inflation, which so much hurts the ability of the game to conquer new subscriptions from new or returning players, or whether these are all disconnected things happening at random.
We'll see, I guess......