What to do with 1800 points?

My bad luck story: broke hand beginning of August so let sub-lapse on 26th August as I could not use a mouse. Had no idea CoH was closing until trying to re-sub in September... if I've got this right I missed perma-VIP by 5 days?

Now I have only 1 spare global slot and 40 characters to choose from along with 1800 points. I'd like to use more of my chars, but I also want to use my IOs so need to buy that licence.

So is there anyway of getting VIP status back on the cards? For premiums or those willing to spend points/cash? Or do I have to work out the best IO/global slot combo with my points? Can I even spend points?

You cannot purchase VIP time or more points. NCSoft is no longer accepting cash for anything CoH related.

You CAN still spend the points you already have.

There are mixed reports from people trying to use boxed sets to reactivate their accounts - some are succeeding and reattaining VIP status, others are reporting that they're getting an error stating that the code "is valid, but cannot be used to create a new account, and cannot be applied to any of your accounts." It's possible that some of these are due to people trying to use NA codes on EU accounts, or vice-versa. It's also possible that people are trying to use Box Codes that they already have - You can't add a Good vs Evil code to your account if you've already used one.
If you check places like Amazon.com, you might find an unused Box Set Code for cheap. If you consider it worth the gamble, you can buy one and try it. Other than that, there is no way to reattain VIP Status.

Note that Global Slots aren't used to unlock characters, they're used to unlock empty slots on servers. Those empty Server Slots are used to create new characters or unlock existing ones. Check the character slots after your listed characters s any labelled "Create a Character" are available Server Slots. You may unlock one character (on the same server) for each of those.
To unlock a character, just double-click that character, or select it and click "Enter Game". A pop-up asking if you want to unlock the character will appear; agreeing will unlock the character and reduce your available Server Slots by 1.

I have a similar problem. I still have about 6000 PP left.

My subscription originally lapsed at the end of July, and I would have resubscribed then, but then I got a friend to upgrade to VIP status and my account got an extra month until August 20.

As I was on holiday during that time, I had planned to resubscribe in early September...

I have ordered some boxes from Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com doesn't ship to The Netherlands. They will probably be EU codes, I hope I can apply them to my account, I think I might have a NA client, as I only joined after NA/EU were merged.
They should start arriving around September 22-28.

In the mean time most of my characters are locked, as nearly all are Rogues. (Everything over level 20).

I'm wondering if spending 1200 points on unlocking Going Rogue would allow me to enable them or that I should wait for one of my boxes from Amazon to arrive. I probably would need an invention licence and some other stuff, like the SSA, as well.

I'm a bit hesitant to spend a lot of my PP on stuff that I can hopefully get as soon as the stuff I ordered from Amazon arrives. I don't know if this would have an effect on a potential refund.

I then have the problem that I'll be out of the country for work for most of October, so maybe I should wait until November. But then things might not even still be online, even though the rumour is that the servers will continue until the end of that month.

I don't know what choices to make, so for now I'm just playing on the Beta server.