Just a late jump on the inflation ~
Gaia also had two other issues that I haven't seen mentioned that I don't see happen here
1. There were people that listed an item for an exceedingly high price or bid and have a mule purchase it cycle back and repeat to drive up the avg value of an item
2. BOTS people would use bots in the chatterbox all the time just bumping with a flob extra and then instead of directly trading those funds to there main and risk being banned they would buy a cheap item and then sell it for the crazy high amount the bot had earned, and then have the bot buy the item, leaving them with the gold and the items with a wacked avg price.
Also I think the main issue here is demand, I simply don't see enough people purchasing CIs enough to go around but I think someone did already point that out
plus I think the trade down time has made people eager and willing to pay a bit more to get that thing they have been waiting forever for ~ I'm hoping things will settle down a bit after the frenzy is over :)