I just lost a bunch of gear - any ways to fix?

[Lamprey]

I'm an 18 Cleric on Green (name is Piast) who decided to switch to warrior. I spent most of my cash (~200pp) on a set of banded armor, bronze bp/helm, and an obsidian scimitar. I tried to transfer to the alt by dropping the bags on the ground and logging in the alt - this used to work back when I played - but the gear all disappeared.

No idea what happened. Maybe some stole it (it was in an out of the way area but who knows?), maybe it poofed. Anyways, now I have no cash, AND no gear lol.

Any good advice on coming back from this? It's really demoralizing. Maybe there's a good way to make cash quickly as a cleric, or a quest of some sort I'm not thinking about? I don't expect the GMs will do anything to help; I did petition in game and on the forums but so far no reply.