He probably means exchange it to Zen and then (on another character) change it back again, though you would of course lose a little on the market value.

Still, on topic, I would agree that these things being bound is idiotic at best. I've over 150 of them. That's 150 days worth of playing. We can only refine 8,000 a day, so why can't we just use all the claims up in a single day too? It's not like we're going to be able to get the ore any quicker. It's a similar issue to the officer reports mission, what does it matter if the mission takes two minutes (out of the currently required 15) if there is a cooldown on the mission anyway? It's ludicrous.

These Dilithium Claims are, quite simply, the reason I'm refusing to open any more lock boxes. They're going to be lingering in my inventory for quite some time. Then I've got to travel all the way to that Asteroid on a daily basis when I could be doing other things.