I will too add my QQing to the thread.
This is utterly ridiculous, I've never played an MMO that required a SUBSCRIBER to pay real money to grind something. Really, if you want to "thank" the buyers of cartel packs, then just grant them ONE additional pack every 10 or 20 purchases (it doesn't even have to be pack bound, just give them extra coins when they buy CC), now it looks like you try to PUSH everyone to buy packs for real money just to grind rep and even removing items form CM just to push more (and don't give me this BS about buying pack off of GTN, they did cost around 300k, and now the prices will rocket skyhigh because of the reputation items).
As a quick solution, just give everyone the ability to buy the reputation items through GTN, it's easy thing to do and will probably satisfy most of the players in the game (well, me at least, lol).