Quote Originally Posted by HDNitehawk View Post
To qualify for gold or plantinum you have to enter your equipment in the data base. With a certain amount of points you will qualify for one or the other.
This is the Canon's criteria for a pro;

"A full-time self-employed individual or an employee of a professional imaging business who plays a direct role in the creation of moving or still images."

This is probably why broken lenses have a good resale value. A platinum member could pick this lens up for cents on the dollar and have Canon fix it for $600, turn around and sell it for $1500-$1700 and make a nice profit.
Yeah, that's what I suspected. That excludes me pretty unambiguously: I don't do this as a job. Thanks for the suggestion, though.


Clever trick with the lens-flipping. Maybe I can befriend a CPS member and get'em to send it of on my behalf.