How i see it u should beg them to implement the Coin Shop so u can spam/beg those BIS people to carry u in instances so u get to the end game raiding, which is actualy more fun, faster.
The truth is that everyone will get carried in BGs and in Raids, eather by people with higher skill level or higher item level, or both.
Crying how someone can get gear by paying with irl money is ******ed, considering we are talking about private server. Again, server has to earn some money in order to keep itself alive. Some people can only expirience end game PvP/PvE if they donate. And most importantly: More people donating, better server.
So yea, lets stop QQing about the Coin Shop cos u will play it with or without that coin shop, but those who cant farm items duo to IRL obligations wont be able to. Perfect example is population diference btwn Icecrown and Lordaeron. U can say that u dont want to play on Lordaeron cos they buffed bosses, but belive me, in TBC all bosses are hard enough even without those buffs, so yea, how i see it, making a 1x TBC realm without any kind of Shop would actualy doom it.