Quote Originally Posted by Kairaven View Post
From what I understand, You trade those in at the new legacy vendors at Droman Kass (for imperials, Coruscant for republic I guess). Also you can get other legacy kits from Fleet Commendation trad-ins vendor. (possibly other sources, but that was one that I saw for myself)

edit: ninja'd
supposedly legacy weapons and items are "bind to account", so I guess you can sent it to any of your characters by mail.
Though you can only exchange such a kit for the base-gear item of the class you're trading it in on, apparently - you can't get a lightsaber as an Agent, or at least I couldn't