This event certainly is annoying. I was up to ten ear hats this morning, so since I have like 8,000 time skips because I find them generally pointless, I spent about 600 of them trying to get an ear hat. I got zero. What a scam those time skips are in that regard - I have it in my head they intentionally lower the chances of getting an item if using time skips. I finally got to 11 the normal collection way, and then spent I think 30 gems for the last one. I have tons of gems too, so don't really care about that, but what nonsense they have made this not-even-final character to be to welcome. But, this is also why I refuse to give them money anymore the last couple years; they just keep doing more and more crap like this.