[pergadad]

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.

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.