Stripe shuts down my $5M wishlist platform with 90K payments and 11K users(twitter.com)
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Stripe shuts down my $5M wishlist platform with 90K payments and 11K users
https://twitter.com/wishlistpage/status/1774451638024950072
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You don’t allow refunds… your “service” exists to prey on the lonely and you charge huge fees. Shocked they would deplatform such a noble service.
It gets tiring to see time after time again that the best way to reach out to Stripe seems to be through HN. In the tech bubble, it often seems like Stripe is the only option, but Stripe has shown that it's willing to shut people out of their business and with vague explanations, short timelines and no way to reach out so someone who has decision power. Is there no competitor that we can flock to that is more trustworthy? I understand PayPal is essentially the same if not much worse.
I hope you get things straightened out with them, but it really shows that for taking payments, you absolutely should bet on many horses.
I hope you get things straightened out with them, but it really shows that for taking payments, you absolutely should bet on many horses.
The “Stripe support failures” that end up on HN always seem to be sketchy or even fraudulent businesses trying to rally public opinion to force stripe to support them even though they’re against the ToS and could get Stripe banned from Visa/Mastercard/etc.
So it goes with this one, which seems associated with sex workers and unfortunately the payment networks are prudes from the 1700s about that sort of thing.
So it goes with this one, which seems associated with sex workers and unfortunately the payment networks are prudes from the 1700s about that sort of thing.
HN isn't your personal whinging service.
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Income loss, reputation hit, possible implied contract, punative damages, interest, attorney fees, etc.
Let's see their (lack of) customer service sleep that off.