Exactly. These exploits were reported countless times and are still working. Server economy is destroyed because of this. Imagine how much gold some of these people are just quietly sitting on. If you could accomplish that in 1.5 days, imagine what you could do in one month.
Everyone knew those who had an epic mount the first week exploited to get it. It took players weeks or months on fully populated realms with booming economies to get their epic mounts, and yet these people did it all alone with no economy in less than a week?