Just to confirm if I wanna pay for the transfer of a char I should right click on the plex and choose "return to redeem items"?

Why are Private Sales being listed? That makes no sense to me.

Can we use paypal to do the character transfer itself, or is that only applicable through a credit card?

I've seen it so many times now where me/others are bidding on a toon and folks even offer the B/O price listed in the OP. Then all of a sudden the seller drops in a message:

'XXX ISK B/O agreed in-game'

Then the in-game buyer will usually follow up a message confirming the agreement. They will not always state the price either.

This is happening quite a lot recently and it's starting to annoy me a little. Is this not an auction? Why can't these mysterious agreements take place within the auction to give everyone else a fair chance?

I offered to pay the asking B/O price on a toon and that was trumped with an in-game deal. If someone is willing to pay more than the asking B/O then fine, but where is my option to offer even more again?

I don't see any rules on it so wondering if some clarity could be offered.

EDIT: Link for example:

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&find=unread&t=102865

Here's a question I haven't seen covered yet (although I skimmed most of this thread):

I've returned to EVE from a five-year absence. Before I left, I transferred my main character to another player. I kept track for a while, and know he trained her up for a year after I left, but then I lost track of everything related to the game.

Now that I've returned, it seems that the owner of my old main left the game a couple of years ago. When I look her up, her avatar is the blank silhouette of a toon who hasn't been updated to the new format. A mutual acquaintance confirms that the player left some time ago, and he lost track of him as well.

So... my question is, if I can't locate the owner of the inactive account where my old main currently resides, is there any way for me to get her back? Game records should confirm that she was originally on my account. If the other player were still using her actively, I'd have no problem letting him keep her, but it's a shame to see a toon with over 60 million SP sitting idle.

Alternatively, is there any way for the GMs to help me locate the player who owns her?

Is it possible for me to put up a sale of my Alts, get the ISK from the buyer and buy PLEX from that money (for the transfer fee) and then begin transferring the character?

I just wanna make sure if that's possible and within CCP rules (As I have no ISK currently to pay for the transfer fee via PLEX).

CCP Spitfire

The character being sold must be in an NPC corporation.

Just out of curiosity, Does this rule apply when the character is up for sale or when a sale is agreed?
Just wondering as i have sold many and have had most of them up for sale while in a corp....

Glad im not the only one noticing those threads getting locked today...

When you create sell offer (being in player owned corporation) it is possible that this will throw additional 24 hours (it is time you need to drop corp roles) of waiting (in addition to 10 hours character transfer delay) from buyer to complete bargain.

As result, buyer can start to be nervous and will write petition on you about possible scam, because the buyer expects only a 10-hour delay as it is described in rules.

To Clarify, You locked posts BECAUSE PEOPLE MAY POSSIBLY WRITE A PETITION ABOUT IT, ******* PRE-CRIME!

This is utter shenanigans, its not like CCP lets people scam here anyways, it would only get your char banned. Thus making it useless.

If you're nervous about buying a toon from me, because i'm not in an NPC corp even though my roles are dropped, don't do it chances are I don't want to deal with you anyways.

When you create sell offer (being in player owned corporation) it is possible that this will throw additional 24 hours (it is time you need to drop corp roles) of waiting (in addition to 10 hours character transfer delay) from buyer to complete bargain.

As result, buyer can start to be nervous and will write petition on you about possible scam, because the buyer expects only a 10-hour delay as it is described in rules.

9. The character being sold must be in an NPC corporation.
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13. Prior to leaving a corporation, the character to be sold MUST send a corp-wide EVE mail stating that they are going to be sold and will be leaving for an NPC corporation.

Issues with character transfers

We have noticed issues with character transfers today, June 27, and have temporarily disabled this option until further notice. The resonsible developer team is working on restoring this service again, a solution can be expected on Thursday, June 28.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

P.S: I cleaned up the thread a tiny bit. Let's try and keep it constructive, ok?