well this just plain doesn't make sense then...
by this business model, no one would ever be able to sell tickets using paypal. if selling a ticket requires confirmation of the event, what would stop someone from buying a ticket with paypal, and then just not confirming the event after the fact and keeping their money? I mean, I'm 90% sure that some people out there use paypal to handle ticket purchasing, how would this be any different?
I'm not really trying to bust your balls here or anything, I just really want to see Genesis run smoothly and I don't think that's gonna happen unless pre-payment happens and what you're saying that paypal is saying just plain doesn't make sense.
if they really require some sort of confirmation from the buyer, couldn't you just have people confirm once there status on the pre-reg website gets updated to "paid" or something? or like, mail out some half-***** tickets or something... there's gotta be a way around whatever grief they're giving you.