Guild Wars 2

Was the discounted price/full price option removed from the gem store in the August 11th update? My friend was going to gift it to me but the option seems to have disappeared.

I created a guild yesterday with some of my friends yesterday, yet on default, I was given no privileges as the leader of the guild. I was able to invite my friends and I figured it was just a simple visual glitch and would fix after I log off and back on. By the time I got back on, my friends had used their influence gaining items and I was still not allowed any privileges and the Influence points they used would not show up overall. Today, I used my Tome of Influence and got the influence but the Influence points my friends used did not show up. I also created a dummy guild today, and I found that I was given privileges as leader and now I’m at a loss of what to do. Hopefully this issue could be resolved soon.