Originally Posted by
kalia960
This got me thinking...can someone who acquired Plat through a challenge renew it by paying $495/595? The announcement about
buying status didn't explicitly exclude challenges.
In other words, could one do a challenge only every other year, as now required, but with purchased status in the intervening years?
My apologies if this was discussed in another thread, I missed it.
Yes, this was discussed extensively around this time last year. The answer is, we don't really know, but it appears that this would work. The ban on repeat challenges was new last year, and wasn't being enforced uniformly, so it is hard to say if isolated instances of buying status were OK by that undocumented (publicly, at least) policy or not.