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greatgib | 5 days ago

Stripe is a pain in the ass as a buyer, so I really hope they won't be able to acquire competitors and become a de facto monopoly.

For example, when you're traveling abroad and can't buy a service online with your card, you can be 95% sure that Stripe is the payment processor.

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okthrowman283|5 days ago

Maybe true but I’ve never had a worse experience than I have with PayPal, truly an awful company

piker|5 days ago

Well for an expats, it's really a gamechanger not having to play three card monte selecting the correct card to use for each transaction. You would be surprised how many transactions are (accidentally?) geofenced based on where your card is issued from, and Paypal pretty much solves these.

dataflow|5 days ago

I know everyone here hates PayPal but I don't recall hearing anyone I know IRL complaining about it, for whatever that's worth.

pjmlp|4 days ago

Well here in DACH space, it is one of the US providers that works best, then again maybe we should move away from them.

hsbauauvhabzb|5 days ago

Stripe is also sending me emails with an unsubscribe button that requires me to authenticate. So they’re a pain as a user as well.

chillfox|5 days ago

Yeah, but PayPal is an even bigger pain.

p0w3n3d|4 days ago

Similar same happened to me, but in my country. I got a virtual stripe card to pay for the conference I was supposed to attend to and the fixing of problems took like five business days

nodesocket|4 days ago

You clearly didn’t have to use Authorize.net before Stripe came along. It was unspeakably bad.

greggsy|5 days ago

Except in Australia, where it barely had 30% saturation, compared to Square’s 60%?