On September 13th I upgraded my account to VIP for access to everything for a while, 500 points, and the additional character slots when I retire it. I let the VIP account expire on October the 13th sadly unimpressed with the system.
I still haven't received my 500 points for paying for VIP (it's been 36 days now)
When my VIP time expired, I went back to "free" rather than "premium" (locking 2 characters for now).
It makes me wonder how many people have gone under the radar like this. Now that DDO Unlimited has been out for a while, this sort of thing is bound to turn people away if it's not prevented.