This is starting to get hilarious. I'd be willing to bet that I could get you to believe that your OP was the worst idea ever, if I just quoted it and posted a +1.
The baby: Letting the face control the merchant prices.
The bath water: A "gimmicky" system that allows you to get rich quick.
The irony: Posting that this gimmicky system is problematic and then claiming that removing it is "throwing the baby out with the bath water"...
Aaand you are missing the point and focusing on the irrelevant thing again.
The baby you are throwing away is the bartering system, the "bathwater" (or toxic waste, more properly) is the manipulation of attitude with gifts, which is the real problem.
Also, not sure how pointing that you repeated basically one of the suggestions I made before would equate to "claiming my own suggestion is the worst idea ever".
P.S. And yeah, it IS getting hilarious (and somewhat sad at the same time), but not for the reasons you seem to think.
