recurring Gold Membership some free items
Re-occuring means your Loyalty Velocity is going up or maxed out. If that isn't happening and you don't do something to change that really soon you won't qualify for the reward. It's going to check the duration of your current subsciption and if it's 1 month long you'll get the lesser giveaway.
In theory Phathom's posts are accurate and feel free to act based on his posts.
inof
http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/posts ... _id=185840
prethread has some questions answered
http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/posts ... _id=185820