I remember the 1st skill bonuses MA introduced, which crashed the skill market and basically ripped every participant with skills off. Than they sweared no other skill bonus events will be made. But they must have seen how effective tool it is - people go nuts for skills.
Actually Marko promised there would be more skill events but there were none. Do you realize that even during a 3x skill event players earn fewer skills then players gained before the skill nerf? In other words 3x skills is about what this game offered for 5 years and you really think a few weeks crashed the market? Is that what happened to the equipment market too? Or could it have been the economy, or the general downward trend of skills prices for the past 10 years.