I would pay up to 150 USD to have my character transferred tomorrow...

Yeah, honestly, I'd love to know the actual number of legitimately new Aussie customers, I'm willing to bet it'd be a laughably low figure incapable of populating these existing three servers to anything more than "Light" during peak times. The vast majority of us have 50s, bottom line. This is a slap in the face.

Rather than a reason, I would hope that this backlash would light a fire under their ***** to get this done within the next 2 weeks, which would actually be a reasonable timeframe.

Hell, I'll have a new 50 by late April...

From the newly-updated Asia/Pacific FAQ: ...late April? That's kind of... ridiculous.

As somebody hinted at previously in this thread, the idea that the criteria for free-transferring characters to AUS servers is based entirely around your chosen country when originally registering your SWTOR account is absolutely inane, to say the least. As already stated, many of us (some for differing reasons: most thinking they'd be more likely to play beta; myself being an American in Sydney, who cares which I selected) listed our country as USA and later swapped it over to Australia once it was revealed they were inviting Oceanic players to beta. Newsflash: A credit card billing address would be exactly the sort of hard info you'd need to determine whether or not someone actually lives in the targeted region. Why are you making this more difficult and convoluted than it needs to be? It's almost like BW and/or EA is incapable of doing anything right at this point, and is actually searching for ways to create confusion and manufacture difficulty. (If the description of the free-transfer criteria is poorly-worded and they actually do mean your current, listed country of residence prior to the deadline of Feb 28, then of course, everything's a-ok.)