There is a difference between what you are saying, and what is being done. There is no accurate comparison between these two subjects. People are buying the things to do Skirmish, without doing Skirmish, instead, they simply go inside of Skirmish, run around to find the Bayld giving rift, and then exit. This avoids doing the real event for its purpose and instead is abusing the fact it gives a large amount of Bayld. It would be like if popping a VWNM is all you had to do in order to get the XP & Cruor rewards, but drops were only gotten when killing the NM. People could go out and pop Ig-Alima, get tons of cruor, but then run away, soon as he depops, go back, pop again, tada, super Cruor gain. The difference with that even is that Voidstones are replenished constantly even if someone drains the AH of them, Skirmish pieces are not, and Skirmish pieces are harder to get while also being more rare.