How ship gifting works

RSI lets a pledge owner send a giftable item to any e-mail address. The recipient gets a link, clicks accept, and the pledge moves into their account — ships, CCUs, packages, paints. That is the entire delivery mechanism of the secondary market: no account sharing, no credentials, just an official gift to your RSI account e-mail.

The golden rule: a pledge can only be gifted once. After it has been received, it can never be gifted again. That is why "giftable" matters so much in listings — and why StarPlace only allows giftable items to be sold.

Buying from other players gets you discontinued ships, limited CCUs and prices below the store — that is why the market exists. What you do need to watch for is scams: they are real on every marketplace, and that is exactly what escrow answers. On StarPlace the buyer's money is held by PayPal until the gift is delivered and confirmed, so a seller who never delivers never gets paid.

The classic scams are painfully simple: a "seller" who takes payment and disappears; a "buyer" who receives the gift and charges the payment back; a fake middleman who was never going to forward anything. All of them share one root cause — someone handed over money or goods with nothing holding the other side accountable.

On StarPlace the order of operations protects both sides: the buyer pays first, but the money is held in escrow — the seller never sees it yet. The seller then sends the official RSI gift to the buyer's account e-mail. Only after the buyer confirms the item arrived does the payment release to the seller. No confirmation, no payout — and disputes are reviewed by a human.

Use the exact e-mail of your RSI account at checkout — the gift goes there and nowhere else. Keep the conversation and the payment on the platform. Confirm receipt only after the item is actually in your hangar. And if a deal looks too good to be true, it usually is.

Ready to look around? Browse the verified listings or read how StarPlace works end to end.