Don’t use Stripe. I am trying to save you from my mistake
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#4I feel like we saw this exact story before. IIRC the guy sold a company truck or van.
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#6The core complaint about Stripe getting back to you is patently false -- it's simple enough to request a callback and a human from Stripe will call you. Typically within minutes.
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#7I feel like we saw this exact story before. IIRC the guy sold a company truck or van.
It does sound exactly like that. Guy sold a van, but his business codes we completely unrelated to that type of transaction so it got flagged. It wouldn't surprise me if that was a common Stripe issue considering how easy and contact free it is to get started.
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Now imagine if you didn't live in SF.
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#9The linked reddit post is a word for word copy of an earlier reddit post by another user: https://www.reddit.com/r/stripe/comments/wa1zd6/run_from_str...
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#10 > I used Stripe for about a year to run a small cell phone store in Denver
> [...] All of a sudden, we run a charge for $3300 because our primary
> processor in my business was down,
During the discussion it came out that this cell phone store used their Stripe account to sell a used vehicle[0], which is the sort of unusual activity that makes every regulated financial services company sit up and pay attention. A common risk mitigation is for the payment processor to hold the money in escrow until after the dispute period.