I am not kidding you g_leyser! I am dead serious.

And it is a major lunacy, as I even offered them to pay the credit card penalty which is permissible for Australian CCs - hence removing all possible cost factors for UA - but they would not bite.

Last year I bought an Asiana ticket for which I had to do a reroute. I could pay all charges on the phone with a Korean agent. Foreign card, no local address (I mean UA knows my card and address for 10+ years), agent hardly spoke English ... no problem.
But when talking to a 1K agent ... no way .

If PayPal, Amazon, and so many other merchants can take it .. why not UA???