I can't complain this year. I think my shard got saturated with the stuff. Must be a lot more beggars than I'm aware of. I managed to sell 29M worth of merchandise. I trashed a load of cookies, cakes, and pies. Grim warnings quit selling early on and eventually the skulls on pikes wouldn't sell either. And yes, I did lower my prices through several stages, about every 2 days.
I would like to hear from a Dev whether non-beggars were getting last year's beggar rewards, if it was lower than GM beggars that were getting them, or neither. Reports here on Stratics were rather skimpy. I hope it was lower skilled beggars and not the masses.