[greatgib]

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.

[okthrowman283]

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

[piker]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Yeah, but PayPal is an even bigger pain.

[p0w3n3d]

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]

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

[greggsy]

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