Fleet purple DOFF bound to char but found on exchange... what the heck?

alexsanderita

Hi all,


I was surfing the exchange and found that Fleet Personnel Duty Officer Very Rare Quality were sold for millions.

Having an old char with plenty of fleet credits that I didn't know how to use and wanting EC, I bought six from my fleet.

Then I discovered they were bound to character. Double checked the exchange and the very same item were still sold.


Explanation? Refund? I dumped 120,000 Fleet Credit for the wrong information I got from the Exchange.

gazurtoid

It used to be possible to unbind them. People abused that mechanic publically during an event and they fixed it, so they can't be unbound any more. This explains higher price on exchange (as only legacy ones can be sold).

Just open and use/sell the doffs that you get.

And you didn't get wrong information from the exchange. You saw something on there, made an assumption about it, and took a risk on the basis of that assumption. Unfortunately it didn't pay off. Hopefully you get a couple of nice doffs (Technician, Res Lab, etc) to offset those losses.

crm14916

Yes, like gazurtoid said, the boxes are bound to character, but the Doffs themselves are not... If you open the box, the Doffs can then be sold on the exchange. But beware, they may not sell for what you want them to...

I would say you learned a lesson, if nothing else. Stuff like that happened to me too when I first started playing. I can't tell you how many valuable items I deleted from the mail system not understanding I needed to be at a kiosk to re-collect them...

Cheers!
CM

alexsanderita

Thanks everyone for the kind and precise answers!

I guess I'll keep them.

markhawkman

If you really want personnel you can sell, you can take them to the academy and exchange for blues, or go to the alpha quadrant and look for an officer exchange.