depends how you define a lot of money.
How much would this cost to receive 30k messages per month?
How much would this cost to receive 30k messages per month?
But you're operating at the wrong scale-- 30k messages to a domain can happen in an hour by a spammer doing a directory attack. The point is that this solution is extremely open to abuse that happens all day every day over SMTP. Without a fixed-cost firewall to reject messages and only allow clean messages through to this solution, you are going to have escalating costs.