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Jun 27, 2008 | 1:36 am

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Originally Posted by oklAAhoma

This isn't going to work, because it's a violation of PayPal terms and conditions to charge one's own credit card. The account will likely be red flagged (and likely shut down) well before the OP even gets to $10k, let alone $1 million.

This type of scheme has been discussed numerous times on FT in the past, and the majority of the threads indicate just how it will not work reliably, given PayPal's enforcement of its own rules that don't allow it:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=675190
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=395382
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=366967
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=336156

I believe PayPal charges a flat 30 cents plus the percentage, not $30.

You are correct, it is 30 cents. I must have missed the decimal point

I don't know why Paypal would care, as long as they charged more than their costs.