I wonder how much you’re being caught by protections set up against bad actors.
Bad actors have massive incentive to try all sorts of insanely advance schemes to ensure their cash flow (I saw this both at MP3.com and Zynga early days). As a company, Stripe has massive incentive to stop them. If you stop 95% of bad actors and cause .01% of good actors to get caught up in the enforcement, that’s a net win for the company. If I was running Stripe, you’d be an acceptable casualty.
Of course to you, you’re not an acceptable casualty and this is a shitty situation. The advice in this thread about having multiple processors you can switch between is a technical and financial headache for you to implement, but it’s really your best bet.
I’m sorry you’re going through this, I hope it works out, but the tough love call here is you are an acceptable casualty and need to plan accordingly.
Bad actors have massive incentive to try all sorts of insanely advance schemes to ensure their cash flow (I saw this both at MP3.com and Zynga early days). As a company, Stripe has massive incentive to stop them. If you stop 95% of bad actors and cause .01% of good actors to get caught up in the enforcement, that’s a net win for the company. If I was running Stripe, you’d be an acceptable casualty.
Of course to you, you’re not an acceptable casualty and this is a shitty situation. The advice in this thread about having multiple processors you can switch between is a technical and financial headache for you to implement, but it’s really your best bet.
I’m sorry you’re going through this, I hope it works out, but the tough love call here is you are an acceptable casualty and need to plan accordingly.