It is intended and it is CCP’s newest way to screw things up and make everything worse that worked well before. They even ignored the possibility that you cannot redeem that crap in the first place because you have no skills for it, and that you are now stuck for 2 weeks with an ugly red badge.
Ah, you’d think so when you’re accepting the box at login, or when you look at the item in the redeem popup, or when you right click and show info on it, but what you actually get is a BPC.
These posts keep reminding me of those silly viral videos where the kid gets the wrong make/model/color car for their birthday and throws an ungodly tantrum, except they’re actually sincere.