Back in my very first virtual world, Dreamscape, at one point I had one of the rarest items in existence. I think I won it in a trivia contest one day, and a GM just handed it to me - the original Paper Bag head piece. It was undyeable, but only THREE existed. I wore that thing for several years.

And then one day, they added in a dyable version that could be purchased from a vendor.

Did I feel mad about it? Naw, not really. In that case, it definitely wasn't a reward I'd worked my ass off to get, I just happened to get lucky at trivia being a category that I knew that day.