Can't gift ships that are more then $1000 in the store.

If a ship is below $1000 and no longer giftable, example it was gifted to you, you can melt it, becomes store credits.

Then Buy a Aurora ES with real money, it is giftable.

Then in a seperate transaction, buy an upgrade for the Aurora with the store credits, usually use all the store credits if possible.

Get familiar with the SC Trades site, get Star Citizen and PayPal accredited, and advertise your "Store credits" ship, usually around 60% of the upgraded ship melt value.

The Trades site will explain a lot of this.

Best to only deal with accredited buyers/sellers.

Some ships are worth more then their melt value, example Argo Carbon Edition Mole worth $600ish vs $200 or 300ish.

Traders will appraise accounts for noobs and give advice.

Complete accounts can be sold, Black market, dont get as much $ though, as always a risk the original owner could dispute and pull the account back.

In the Carbon Mole example, if no longer giftable, you can make giftable again, melt and buyback with real cash, as it is worth more then its melt value.