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TELL HN: Stripe STOLE OUR $159k

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Re: TELL HN: Stripe STOLE OUR $159k

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Yeah, it sucks that people have to come here for short-circuit support. I just hate to have this flagged for not being a true "show"

Maybe change title to Tell HN, that's what these normally are, I think.

I just did but they flagged it. Stripe stole my funds and HN just silenced our voice

Re: TELL HN: Stripe STOLE OUR $159k

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Stripe has a lot of “restricted businesses” for which they don’t want to process payments. https://stripe.com/legal/restricted-businesses This one jumps out to me as a possible reason, if your business is helping new businesses acquire customers: > Sales of online traffic or engagement It could be any of those though, it’s hard to say. Basically Stripe is trying to protect themselves from being hit by a bunch of char…

We are not selling traffic, we advertise for them and it is supportable business model as we had a discussion with their team. They can refund to original but original is in connected accounts not us, we are using direct charges. Even they refund they can't use our funds as I explained, Platform is not responsible for refunds of connected accounts if platform is using Stripe Standard Connect and direct charges

Re: TELL HN: Stripe STOLE OUR $159k

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One bit of advice for your post: Talk a bit more about your business model - where the funds are coming from etc. It is coming for your customers (other businesses) or their customers (the shoppers)?

I understand Stripe is keeping money you believe should be released to you. But hard to form an opinion over something with very little context.

"Unauthorized charges" seems to imply that Stripe believes you've not commnunicated to your customers what you will be charging, and charged them anyway. Did you?

What exactly is in the "Unauthorized charges" email?

Re: TELL HN: Stripe STOLE OUR $159k

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Edwin from Stripe here. I’d like to dig more into what happened — could you email me at edwin@stripe.com?

Hello Edwin Our team did from support@bringshopper.com 2 days ago. Subject is "Urgent not getting paid"

Did you find it?

Our account id is acct_1K7t9JC4s1I9dR5f

Re: TELL HN: Stripe STOLE OUR $159k

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Several red flags and this is nothing against you.

* New domain * no phone contact * lack of information * No seo data, inbound links or domain score

merchant companies will hate this kind of stuff and quite honestly 159k in charges in 3 ish months probably set off red flags too

if i understand your marketing materials it sounds like you run a browser plug-in

all very sus to be honest

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