Selling scepter with skeletons sold my support gems linked to the skeletons

Selling scepter with skeletons sold my support gems linked to the skeletons.

some details:

sold in 1st town, replaced magic scepter with the unique "the dark defiler",
magic scepter had +6 str on it,
dark defiler went red cause i did not have enough strength,
sold magic scepter and some other items to get gold to change 1 stat node,
dark defiler went white, traveled to act 2,
discovered that support gems are now gone,
dont know whether i could buy back since i moved to act 2 before ive seen it.

relogin did not fix the issue, support gems were last gasp and meat shield.

did you purchase the gems from the scepter?