The current dupe process has nothing to do with shard transfer, although the shard transfer helps the dirty bastards rinse thier ill gotten goods clean. I am also in agreement that the x-fer process remain offline until the duping matter is fixed. It's better to keep the ill gotten goods in one spot so the devs. have a better chance at tracking the stuff down.
BTW...to the OP...did you ever consider there are reasons things are the way they are? Perhaps you might try reading stratics more often so that you are informed on gamebreaking issues that result in transfers being down. You are too old to be playing the *are we there yet?* game.