On the plus side he should have gotten a $814 thousand cash-back bonus on the transaction!

square wrote:

PayPal

There's your problem, right there.

I love PayPal.  I've made my living using them as my e-commerce provider for years.

I recently had to deal with an airline’s “customer service” in India to change a return time on an airline flight, so I can imagine what he went through.  It took a half hour of negotiation to enable a very old lady related to me to board her plane without using my credit card to check in or my obtaining a boarding pass at an airport two hours away from my home and overnighting the pass to her where she was staying.  They double charged the change fee, so rather than deal with them, I submitted my proof to Visa when I contested the charge and let them deal with the stupid “customer service” agency in India.  I’ve acted as the travel agent for all the old people in my family and I suppose I will continue to do so, but this experience was a total drag.

I am just amazed that PayPal would allow an $81 billion charge. Do they do a lot of government work? I guess it could come in handy if an aircraft carrier came up for sale on eBay and I wanted to use Buy It Now...