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Re: Stripe acquires Lemon Squeezy

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Post by danielmarkbruce »

nailer wrote: post #205
danielmarkbruce wrote: post #199

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ACH costs zero and some retailers accept it and more and more now with FedNow. International remittance - atlantic money does $3 or something flat. By the time you get your cash into a crypto exchange and out, you are hosed for more than $3. If you can be bothered to open an account with someone like Interactive Brokers (yes, a traditional online stock brokerage) you can do it for about zero - you get wholesale FX pr…

> By the time you get your cash into a crypto exchange Why would you do that?

Then, go ahead and explain, in some detail end to end, with costs, how to do the things you brought up. You aren't going to beat the underlying cost structure.

Re: Stripe acquires Lemon Squeezy

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Post by galdosdi »

carlosjobim wrote: post #118
galdosdi wrote: post #100

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LOL. Being able to reverse transactions and freeze funds is a feature not a bug. With crypto you have no recourse when a criminal does criminal things or you make a mistake. Ransomware only started being a thing thanks to crypto, but governments could easily ban it (serious governments like US, China, Germany, that is) Crypto is useless for anyone but criminals. If you can't use the real, state controlled financial s…

How does your comment read if you replace "crypto" with "foreign currency"?

You are probably unaware of this, but most foreign countries also have governments that enforce laws. It's not just an American thing, believe it or not.

Hope this helps. Take care now.

Re: Stripe acquires Lemon Squeezy

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Post by jen729w »

Silhouette wrote: post #184
localfirst wrote: post #180

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often problems that impact a small segment is blown out of proportion and this is a classic marketing strategy. throw in anonymous social media handles and boom you created the illusion a need for a problem you dont have or likely have but the reality is if you dont have 1M ARR from EU there really isn't enough on the table to matter. So you owe 1k in Hungary or UAE, they are not getting INTERPOL to bust down your do…

I don't consider failing to meet legal and tax obligations to be merely a "problem that impacts a small segment". It's true that realistically SMEs have a degree of shielding from the consequences because there are plenty of large enterprises to go after first and they have bigger wallets for the tax man and his limited resources to chase. But those enterprises also have armies of lawyers and accountants to defend th…

> The argument people are making against mine here is essentially that it's OK not to do your taxes if you can get away with it.

For clarity, this is not the argument that I am making.

My argument is that it is obviously impossible for me, a solopreneur, to meet my global tax ‘obligations’.

As in, literally impossible. It’s not that I’m just choosing not to. It would be impossible for me to run a business while registering for and remitting tax to all of the global authorities who, since I sold a $20 PDF to someone in their country, believe that I owe them taxes.

And so if that’s against the law, well so be it. Let them come. There’s nothing I can do short of shutting down my business.

Because whose law, by the way? Serbia’s tax law? I’ll tell you now, sitting in my kitchen in Australia, Serbia’s tax law is not high on the list of things that I fear.

Re: Stripe acquires Lemon Squeezy

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Post by devwastaken »

danielmarkbruce wrote: post #210
devwastaken wrote: post #209

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The same way it's good for you to push them to do better.

Nope, I'm not a fraudster, or a porn guy or drug guy or whatever other things currently banned. I'm quite happy with the status quo here. As are most of society.

Deflecting. You live in a society of powers. You're not an individual free of them and their consequences just because they didn't target you this time. If you were truly comfortable you would have good reasons to support their decision other than "it wasn't me this time!". Most of society is not happy with the status quo, why do you think they're so unhappy?

Re: Stripe acquires Lemon Squeezy

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Post by [deleted] »

wilg wrote: post #142

Currently using Paddle, and would love to switch to Stripe. I'm concerned about the additional hidden fees mentioned elsewhere in this thread, as well as lack of B2B invoicing features. Though Paddle's invoicing features are pretty barebones (like you can't easily send someone an estimate/pricing before a purchase, only an invoice after one.)

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Re: Stripe acquires Lemon Squeezy

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Post by nxnfufunezn »

wilg wrote: post #142

Currently using Paddle, and would love to switch to Stripe. I'm concerned about the additional hidden fees mentioned elsewhere in this thread, as well as lack of B2B invoicing features. Though Paddle's invoicing features are pretty barebones (like you can't easily send someone an estimate/pricing before a purchase, only an invoice after one.)

Paddle does offers a way of creating draft invoices, allowing you to work through changes with your customers before issuing them. https://developer.paddle.com/build/invoices/create-issue-inv...

Re: Stripe acquires Lemon Squeezy

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Post by danielmarkbruce »

devwastaken wrote: post #214
danielmarkbruce wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope, I'm not a fraudster, or a porn guy or drug guy or whatever other things currently banned. I'm quite happy with the status quo here. As are most of society.

Deflecting. You live in a society of powers. You're not an individual free of them and their consequences just because they didn't target you this time. If you were truly comfortable you would have good reasons to support their decision other than "it wasn't me this time!". Most of society is not happy with the status quo, why do you think they're so unhappy?

Lol, you seemed to miss the implication - I'm happy it's difficult for them to do business.

Re: Stripe acquires Lemon Squeezy

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Post by thelittleone »

danielmarkbruce wrote: post #172
devwastaken wrote: post #152

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Stripe is not at any risk of having services cut by payment processors. They can leverage an excellent case against them if so. It's time they and the others get together and dunk on Mastercard before they decide to eat the whole pie.

Go work in payments a while and get a clue. They are constantly at risk from the card networks, banks, regulators.

Have worked in payments for over 25 years. Yes it's complex. But with the charge rates and volume they absolutely can do better. And no my business not violate the ToS. It was considered high risk due to high value of transactions despite exceptional contracts, client signoff forms etc.

Re: Stripe acquires Lemon Squeezy

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Post by danielmarkbruce »

thelittleone wrote: post #218
danielmarkbruce wrote: post #172

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Go work in payments a while and get a clue. They are constantly at risk from the card networks, banks, regulators.

Have worked in payments for over 25 years. Yes it's complex. But with the charge rates and volume they absolutely can do better. And no my business not violate the ToS. It was considered high risk due to high value of transactions despite exceptional contracts, client signoff forms etc.

High risk is explicitly covered in the TOS.

Re: Stripe acquires Lemon Squeezy

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Post by carlosjobim »

galdosdi wrote: post #212
carlosjobim wrote: post #118

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How does your comment read if you replace "crypto" with "foreign currency"?

You are probably unaware of this, but most foreign countries also have governments that enforce laws. It's not just an American thing, believe it or not. Hope this helps. Take care now.

I found it curious that many uses and abuses of crypto is the same as with foreign currency. But you seem to have killed your curiosity.
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