[igordebatur]

I read an another thread where there were questions about legitimacy of the app. And here we are: we have 25k+ positive ratings, the app is unique, it provides value for tens of thousands of active users.

The full disclosure is: we've closed our previous bank account to open a new one. Google tried to send a payment to our previous bank account, it has returned, they instantly locked our payments profile and that's it, the whole story.

[mathrawka]

Sounds like what I experienced last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26918013

There were issues with getting our Mercury account validated with Google Pay.

[vmception]

OP just switched to Mercury

[mathrawka]

Yep, that is the timing we had our Google Pay account suspended

[stirlo]

> we've closed our previous bank account to open a new one. Google tried to send a payment to our previous bank account, it has returned, they instantly locked our payments profile and that's it, the whole story.

Was you previous account Russian based? When was it closed?

If you changed it after the war began I can see how Google would notice a Russian associated company (Whitescape) moving to a new bank account just before/during the sanctions and see it as an attempt to evade them which should obviously be blocked.

It seems this is a lesson to move your company to a more stable country (Canada) as soon as you can. Not to wait until the the leader does something the whole world condemns.

[igordebatur]

This previous bank account was also in the US: Bank of America. And then, the issue lasts for 2 months+.

[didntknowya]

yea there's plenty of details that could've been disclosed before presenting a one sided story

[igordebatur]

The problem is, Google hasn't disclosed their side of story: there's no official reason given. That's the problem: their algorithms did something and that's it. I tried to provide as much data points as I could and answered every question in the thread.

[soraminazuki]

There are plenty of comments one could’ve read before jumping to conclusions too.

[vmception]

believe it or not, jail!

(the substantive nature of this comment is that Google acts like an autocrat and hopefully this provides introspection for relevant stakeholders that can eventually influence Google to be more collaborative)

[vsviridov]

We have the best Play store customers... because of jail.