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Re: Don't Use Stripe

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Post by dotancohen »

vacillator wrote: post #77

Not sure if it's by the same person, but this looks suspiciously similar to this post on Reddit from 5 months ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/wa230m/tifu_by_using_... .

Almost a perfect match. Nice find. Googling some of the phrases leads to tens of other near-similar posts.

Is this some anti-Stripe targetting?

Re: Don't Use Stripe

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Post by 15155 »

eecc wrote: post #37
ur-whale wrote: post #30

You're a business. Any reason why you didn't sue them?

Cost? It just happened and they’re still mourning for the loss?

A demand letter that will be processed by a human and probably resolve the issue is practically free.

Re: Don't Use Stripe

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Post by lamontcg »

vacillator wrote: post #77

Not sure if it's by the same person, but this looks suspiciously similar to this post on Reddit from 5 months ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/wa230m/tifu_by_using_... .

"It is one thing to say this is a red flag, fine... I hear you... no problem. a transaction multiple times the size... sure. I get it."

Re: Don't Use Stripe

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Post by quelltext »

noduerme wrote: post #75

I'm not a fan of HN becoming the Oprah show that the clueless internet turns to in hopes of godlike intervention to resolve customer service issues with faceless tech companies. But then again, I'm not above upvoting anything that hurts Stripe. [edit] my main point here wasn't about Stripe, shitheads though they may be, it was that it's unhealthy to cultivate either (A) an external image that we can intervene (re: "I…

> But then again, I'm not above upvoting anything that hurts Stripe.

Why? What did they do to you?

Re: Don't Use Stripe

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Post by bagels »

docflabby wrote: post #65

Most small business I've found don't accept credit/debit cards for large transactions and instead want direct (cash) bank transfers because they fear the money going missing or getting a chargeback. This has its only issues as its slow and not very customer friendly. If only there was some kind of virtual cash that could be sent from one party to another almost instantly without an intermediary

My customers are not going to pay in Bitcoin.

Re: Don't Use Stripe

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Post by jmillikin » 

  mainly talking about coding in PERL. It's a little sus.
This line stood out to me because I've seen it before. There's someone (or a group of someones) who repeatedly posts this same rant about Stripe on both Reddit and HN, slightly modifying the claimed business. For example, one iteration was a cell phone store in Denver that had their funds held after using their Stripe account to sell a used vehicle:

Four months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32261868

The Reddit post linked to by ^^: https://old.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/wa230m/tifu_by_using_...

60 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33254485

Note how the following paragraph appears word-for-word the same in all three posts (select, ctrl+c, ctrl+f to verify):

  If you do a little bit of research about this topic,
  [...]
  mainly talking about coding in PERL. It's a little sus.

Re: Don't Use Stripe

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Post by markus92 »

alephu5 wrote: post #70
docflabby wrote: post #65

Most small business I've found don't accept credit/debit cards for large transactions and instead want direct (cash) bank transfers because they fear the money going missing or getting a chargeback. This has its only issues as its slow and not very customer friendly. If only there was some kind of virtual cash that could be sent from one party to another almost instantly without an intermediary

The EU are working on something like this, it's like USDC but backed and exchanged by the European Central Bank. https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/digital_euro/html/index.en.ht...

Irrelevant but EU has SEPA Instant Payments which basically resolves GPs issues with bank transfers.

Re: Don't Use Stripe

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Post by noduerme »

quelltext wrote: post #85
noduerme wrote: post #75

I'm not a fan of HN becoming the Oprah show that the clueless internet turns to in hopes of godlike intervention to resolve customer service issues with faceless tech companies. But then again, I'm not above upvoting anything that hurts Stripe. [edit] my main point here wasn't about Stripe, shitheads though they may be, it was that it's unhealthy to cultivate either (A) an external image that we can intervene (re: "I…

> But then again, I'm not above upvoting anything that hurts Stripe. Why? What did they do to you?

Nothing. I've never been foolish enough to use them or direct a small business client towards using them. If I had been, based on this and a vast array of other similar complaints on this board and based on their business model that bundles transactions and balances merchant risk for gateways, I suppose that would be my own fault. But I do find them to be scummy as fuck, so I'm fine with them being taken down among the tech savvy - that is, people reading this board who may be in a position to recommend against clients using them as a processor.

Re: Don't Use Stripe

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Post by hakanderyal »

vacillator wrote: post #77

Not sure if it's by the same person, but this looks suspiciously similar to this post on Reddit from 5 months ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/wa230m/tifu_by_using_... .

Isn't this the story that turned out they had sold a company van using stripe, which was against the TOS?
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