Shot in the dark entirely, but it's no way possible to have another delete option that just makes the account available in the system when it's deleted? I mean following the 'manual' renames, but like maybe a script where the name gets renamed to example have an underscore before it? like mezzanotte becomes _mezzanotte and thus leaves the name mezzanotte up for grabs? The flipside of this is basically it renders the need to purchase renames absolutely useless.

But so far littlefingering's suggestions seem pretty solid. I think a lot of the reluctance to pay for renames is in the fact it costs as much as paid time. So between shelling out cash for some paid and just simply making a new journal and getting two months for the same price.