[treffer]

I think there is more to it.... They will probably require a non-anonymous credit card and if things line up you are verified.

So it is probably +$8/month -75% of the cost of that feature.

"Pull out your credit card and pay" is a nice anti-spam feature and verification is a bank duty anyway. So it is pretty likely that any abuse can be pushed down to the person doing the impersonation.

Plus it is most valuable to brands (even personal brands), so $8/month isn't much.

[luckylion]

> "Pull out your credit card and pay" is a nice anti-spam feature and verification is a bank duty anyway

And if you wanted to pivot into also handling payments, you'd now have a payment method to settle with your customer, massively removing onboarding friction into the payment system.