Removal of Illicitly Generated Items

I never said he looted, I was just saying the only way to prove its legitimacy would be to prove it was either looted from VPQ or Gacha. Without that there's no hope in getting any form of compensation.

You are probably correct about Nexon and how they will respond, but it is nothing but unreasonable to expect players to not only watch out for the known illegitimate items, but also be prepared to loose real money just because we use the FM or trade with others. I do not need to prove that the katara itself is legitimate, only that I had no knowledge about its history. My word and their records should be more than enough.
I don't want them to say that they are sorry for doing their job, but I do expect them to treat all cases with items that are not the common dupe stat gear as separate and compensate any NX spent where it is due.
And if they based this purge on stats and not item ID god help them.