I'm glad its still popular after all these years. ;D

My theory behind the whole phantom character is that they're basing some of the login info after an old save right before the servers went offline. Because I'm pretty sure I didn't log out as a Botanist. If they are basing the forum information off of characters used to log in during phase 4, it'd make sense for me at least that it'd only show my main, and a deleted character, as I never got a chance to log into my spare. Not that I remember doing so anyway.

The old character from P4 that I deleted IS connected to my main service account (it says logged into phase 3, phase 4, and has my garlond goggles which I know did show up in my inventory during P4) so I'm thinking that all the servers are doing is drawing the most recent data.
Since the Goggles in the past spread to any character on the same service account, even if your main characters aren't showing up right now they should still be in your service history.
Not to mention I did log in with this account and its still active with my old pre order items from 1.0
This is what I'm putting all my chips on as I already made the plunge. |: If I'm wrong, I'm so sorry for suggesting that everyone just go ahead and trust that the items will be available on all phase 4 or 1.0 characters. < A>