[csomar]

The sad part is that you gave your information and kept trying to give them money despite all of this hassle? What is exactly you are looking for? If it's email, there is tons of providers out there who will be happy to take your money.

[matt_heimer]

It was more that for past reasons they already have all my information so I'd rather avoid giving to out to other companies.

And their spam filtering is hard to beat.

Ended up narrowing my alternatives to fastmail and Microsoft. And since one of those already also had my info I went with the existing relationship.

[throwaway290]

As a Russian, maybe they are trying to make sure you're not a Russian.

It used to be that if I pay I am ok, now if I pay you go to jail. so you better make sure i'm not the wrong type of guy to accept money from

[Slothrop99]

And there are many tons more providers who will be happy to take your money while promising to spam google. TFA prob ain't exactly legit, eh?

[bryanrasmussen]

the only thing I can think that would make it imperative that you get a gmail instead of other email provider is that google provides the ecosystem of apps and google apps script to automate them, if you have built up a lot of tooling for automating things it can be a pretty sweet platform to do things in.