I've seen that sort of thing done, depending on who the decision makers are there's a good chance of convincing them. In the past we've greatly reduced the strictness of automated checks because once they are in the door it's a lot easier to help them. Better that than have them struggle to get in the door and you don't know about it.

And the one I'm doing at the moment I'm pushing for no verification at all. It sounds crazy to people when we first say it, but we do backoffice checks once they start trying to pay for stuff so the account itself doesn't need those checks (we repeat the checks every order). That sounds similar to what you want, and I haven't had issues convincing anyone.