I've never bought a character and never intend to, and do dislike the obvious "eBayed" players in game, but a lot of them are just bad players using dad's main or whatever.
A friend got 200kpp for $80 doing direct business with some player on our server. Damned fool spent it all and twinked some other friend before he paid me back the 40k he owed me!
Honestly, there's very little for sale in the Bazaar regardless of price I'd buy these days. Most of the things I want are ND from places I lack flags for and what have you.
IMHO, find a good, strong, fair guild (maybe with DKP). Participate and help them, they'll pay you dividends... some of the ND loot you want, your epic 2.0, some of your high-end spells... Shelling out cash just so some data bits get manipulated on SOE's hard drive with your character record is still pretty ludicrous to me. (Even so, we do it every time we buy an expansion.)
- Zornecro Mancer, Retired EQ1 Veeshan
- Unktehila, Redtigre, Twinaxe, EQ2 Crushbone