To be fair, most of the stripe whiners I see on here are trying to do shady shit... like that guy last week who didn't think we'd connect the dots from his last shady stripe scheme.

Got a link? Curious what he was doing!

Actually, my mistake... it was almost 3 weeks ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34383720

https://web.archive.org/web/20230114202232/https://news.ycom...

Ah damn, all it says is "I was advised to remove this post" and what was there before is not in archive.is

It’s somewhere in there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34384172

The OP got saved in the wayback, I edited my earlier post with the link.

"Shady shit", aka nothing illegal. If it was illegal, there'd be police, not account closure.

Companies dealing with money often have AML obligations which means shutting down the shady shit before police or regulators get involved.

There's been a few stories of stores running on Stripe for months, before hitting it big and being shut down. AML would shut this shit down immediately, not after months.

I haven't even used Stripe yet but I'm wary of ever relying on it from all the horror stories. It's almost become common sense to use two payment provides, and just rotate between them. More work but when one goes wrong, it's only half your income gone not all of it.