I just got done paying for a month of station access to be able to see the suddenly GONE, 5 characters on my acct (which was very upsetting as I had just paid for anotmal month 3 days before that, so sony converted that month to 13 days of station acces then aded the other 30 days so i lost half a month of time and had to also pay double on a month..)..
anyway..
a friend let me move 4 characters of things to his account, where we made 4 new characters to hold all my things. I had to empty market, home vault, bank, inventory, and also house items in half the chars (a couple i left, one was in a mansion just too much to empty)..
took a LOT of time, i wasn't feeling well and then ended up doing it all last minute, not much sleep for a couple days 
so now that everything is off my characters, Sony is 'letting us' pay them 10$ each slot, to see our characters again.. when before, for the last 5 years or so, we could do a /camp char_name (whatever the name is) and it would let us login any of the unseen chars anyway.. so, sure did take ME by surprise when i couldn't get access, and 3 of those that I had used longest ago were very very 'main' types (like my Lysandra char).. just not fun!!
I am not sure I wanna give Sony all that money just yet, am a little upset now, and I can't easily move everything back again off my friends account
/frown
[and yes, I know it's a great thing for people that didn't know about the /camp name way for the last 5 years, and for those that can afford to pay, but it's not so great for others...]
but anyway, have a great day, be well!