Waist items gone, where's the gil I spent on them?

[PastelPirate]

I just finally noticed that my very expensive waist items, are GONE. Hundreds of thousands of gil just vanished, and yet.. I get no compensation for the removal of a highly expensive piece of equipment? Not just one, but across all my characters and classes? I've a lvl 80 character that had all exarch gear, and the waist pieces are gone. That's a LOT of gil for SE to just vanish at some whim of theirs.

So.. are we to get any compensation for these things, or are we simply ripped off of hard earned equipment and gil for same? because frankly, if that's SE's intent, I'll go find another game to play. I'm not ok with my time and effort being ripped off w/o some compensation for it.

*edit* Sorry folks, my bad. I've already stated further in the thread that this lack of knowledge was my mistake, and why I reacted so, well, abysmally for the first few of my posts in this thread. My apologies, and I hope those reading this will read further (around page 4ish and up). Thanks for understanding (if you read further as suggested).

~Elain