Ultimately a tale of persistence in contacting support. Someone less confident or desperate or aware of their rights and associated costs of the issue would probably have not followed through.<p>Ultimately also a sign that Stripe's fraud prevention and support are pretty bad. Not Google-Level bad But certainly if it takes an active g tech literate merchant a day to resolve such an issue this is 100% on stripe and the author should not have gone through this pain.
Gah, interesting story.<p>But terrible presentation.<p>Hundreds of paragraphs.<p>Of just 1 or 2 sentences.<p>Maybe some like reading that stuff.<p>But I was just scrolling.<p>Trying to find the meat.<p>Authors, learn to be more concise.