Much better! They are most likely alerted and are now probably looking into the situation since we got an official response. However, shutting down the whole thing could lead to a potential.. Rollback. I know everyone would rather not have that, so, take this as a grain of salt. I've experienced a lot of MMOs that take their time to resolve issues like this and usually have a solution up once they are ready. MMOs that react quickly though, usually end up with rollbacks to the servers and this throws people for a loop. So I say, "take your time SE."
It's more or less probably caused by the way the Mog Station may have been coded. They probably couldn't see how to allow two people to receive the bands unless they both bought it. So, they went ahead and decided to allow your partner to gift you the item by making it tradeable if you could not afford it. Again, most likely because of the way the Mog Station handles individual accounts. If otherwise, they could have delayed the Eternal Bond system so they could figure out a better solution.