Removal of Illicitly Generated Items

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.

They should at least consider this. Flat out wiping every equip even if it has close to no link to that DotzCurrency guy only makes people paranoid and coupled with how perfecting an equip is both luck-based and expensive the message you don't want to send out is "Hey, so I heard you got a clean item and then you made it good but now we're going to wipe it because it looks too much like a duped item even though we keep making sales to encourage you to get those stats!"