Stripe shuts down my $5M wishlist platform with 90K payments and 11K users
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Re: Stripe shuts down my $5M wishlist platform with 90K payments and 11K users
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I'd bet a lot of your users are OnlyFans girls or similar, unlike your competitors.
That would be a problem out of Stripe's control and public pressure won't solve that.
Just go straight for a payment provider which is set up to work with that kind of stuff.
Re: Stripe shuts down my $5M wishlist platform with 90K payments and 11K users
#4It 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.
Re: Stripe shuts down my $5M wishlist platform with 90K payments and 11K users
#5Always wondered why anyone use this instead of link to paypal or donation service like streamers do.
Re: Stripe shuts down my $5M wishlist platform with 90K payments and 11K users
#6Always wondered why anyone use this instead of link to paypal or donation service like streamers do.
I mean to send money through some random shady website, where owner can grab as much money as he wants and say to creator nobody sent you money.
This can be easily scam.
Re: Stripe shuts down my $5M wishlist platform with 90K payments and 11K users
#7With your kind of income, you hire a big lawyer with a big fucking stick.
Income loss, reputation hit, possible implied contract, punative damages, interest, attorney fees, etc.
Let's see their (lack of) customer service sleep that off.
Re: Stripe shuts down my $5M wishlist platform with 90K payments and 11K users
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I'd bet a lot of your users are OnlyFans girls or similar, unlike your competitors. That would be a problem out of Stripe's control and public pressure won't solve that. Just go straight for a payment provider which is set up to work with that kind of stuff.
> I'd bet a lot of your users are OnlyFans girls or similar, unlike your competitors.
Pretty sure that would not be unlike the listed competitors, particularly Throne.
Re: Stripe shuts down my $5M wishlist platform with 90K payments and 11K users
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I'd bet a lot of your users are OnlyFans girls or similar, unlike your competitors. That would be a problem out of Stripe's control and public pressure won't solve that. Just go straight for a payment provider which is set up to work with that kind of stuff.
> I'd bet a lot of your users are OnlyFans girls or similar, unlike your competitors. Pretty sure that would not be unlike the listed competitors, particularly Throne.
Maybe, but Throne at least does a better job of obscuring it.
A quick look at Throne shows no link to sex workers (their entire Twitter following is Twitch streamers), while OP's service follows exclusively "brats", "dominatrixes", "findoms", etc.
Not attacking OP's service though.
Re: Stripe shuts down my $5M wishlist platform with 90K payments and 11K users
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I'd bet a lot of your users are OnlyFans girls or similar, unlike your competitors. Pretty sure that would not be unlike the listed competitors, particularly Throne.
Maybe, but Throne at least does a better job of obscuring it. A quick look at Throne shows no link to sex workers (their entire Twitter following is Twitch streamers), while OP's service follows exclusively "brats", "dominatrixes", "findoms", etc. Not attacking OP's service though.
> A quick look at Throne shows no link to sex workers (their entire Twitter following is Twitch streamers)
It doesn't take much clicking through of the linktree/beacons/etc. links in their profiles to find that many of them are sex workers; “Twitch streamers” and “sex workers” are not exactly disjoint sets.
But, yes, it looks like wishlistpage directly links on Twitter to accounts that are more in-your-face about being s/w accounts.
And lazy targeting of services used largely by sex workers might be a viable explanation of the treatment seen.