Clarification here: Players have been gathering not 45k or 55k, there was a player that gathered 5 million just by doing this. others created guilds or starting buying pets from the merchants and sold them in the EM. Of course the crone numbers aren't serious right now because we were able to monitor the crone in every character and verify how they obtained it. Once the maintenance is over that exploit will be fixed.
Edit: Players even tried sealing the pets and deleting the characters thinking it wouldn't leave a trace, but...it does