^^ I would agree - that transfer number makes about no sense to me at all - about anyone with account can log in at night-time - enter required information and some computer, somewhere, spits out a number - not like a human being approved that, or did any "checks" to what that computer did. And, is absolutely no correlation to whether or not a sale actually occurred - it might have or it might not have. Some "thing" may have changed hands, or maybe it did not. By itself, that "transfer number" is simply saying that the PAL number is valid - I thought that is what I had already paid for when I got the thing - that my "PAL" was going to be taken from me, if I went off-side. Logging in to the RCMP website, I see there are a number of "transfer numbers" assigned to me that are still valid - so if my PAL is suspended, Seller still has that "valid" transfer number - is no need or law to verify that the transfer number is still valid, once issued. Coming from an old dude that used to buy and own guns before there was PAL, before there was FAC. I do not consider the current state to be "normal" times, at all, although there are likely many that think something is being accomplished.