By implementing a trade system, they actually wouldn't lose any money at all in the longrun. If anything they'd be saving the game from inevitable premature death, seeing as the population has gone down by half just in the past 6 months that I was absent. That, and I'd probably personally charge more seeing as I'd feel more comfortable about my investment as if I were to ever say, quit, I would be able to pass on anything I have put my cash into to those who may want it.
Watch this, might help explain why them adding a trade system could be one of the better things they could do for CB.
http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/microtransactions
Too bad all CS cares about is instant gratification through whoring out their players by giving those who spend on their game overly imbalanced items and leaving those who play for free to sit there and gawk at big spenders, or alternatively, just quit the game (like 95% of the people who I have introduced to the game have done, all for the same two reasons: "No trade system, impossible to get anything good" and "pay2win", both which are pretty accurate for CB seeing as UC players are at a major disadvantage, and arguing with that fact would just make one look like a fool, when comparing it to other games who use microtransactions much more effectively at least. CB is probably up there in the top 5 worst pay2win MMOs of the decade), rather than investing anything into their game longrun.
Oh yeah, I should add: Tempura's reasoning for removing gifting, "To stop credit card fraud", is easily the biggest load of shit I have heard in my life. Being admins of the game server, it is their responsibility to stop certain problematic users from doing such things, monitoring logs, and doing their damn job. Every other MMO company that deals with microtransactions does it, so why would CS not have to? However, instead of doing this, they punish their game community and blame them for the reason of not including the feature by showing obvious distrust in the community (blantantly stating the reason they have not added it is credit card fraud, doesn't say a whole lot about CS' stance on their non-japanese community, does it?) Nice business skills there, CS.