[quentindanjou]

I know someone with a small business that applied for Venmo Business account (which is the main payment method in their community industry) and Venmo refused to open the account and didn't provide any reason as to why saying that they have the right to choose to refuse providing the service, which they do. But all the competitors of that business in the area do have a Venmo and take payment this way so it is basically a revenue loss for that person.

It's a bit frustrating when a company becomes a major player in an industry and can have a life and death sentence on other businesses.

There are alternative payment method but people are use to pay a certain way in that industry/area, similarly there are other browsers but people are used to Chrome.

[slenk]

Same thing with Paypal - I opened a business account, was able to do one transaction and was shut down for fraud. I tested a donation to myself. Under $10. Lifetime ban.

fuck paypal

[sithadmin]

That’s not unique to PayPal. Pretty much any payment processor that detects a proprietor paying themselves is going to throw up a red flag for circular cash flow fraud and close the account. Bank-operated payment processors are often slower to catch it, but they will also boot you for this.

[calvinmorrison]

real payment processors also you just call on the phone and they fix it. That's not a real problem. we do test orders on many go lives per year and never see this. Yes there are sandboxes, but you always gotta test real transactions by the end.

[slenk]

Ok - but maybe tell me that? They won't officially tell me anything or let me talk to a person. Form email every time.

At the time I didn't have a better way to test that my form worked.

[GoblinSlayer]

Here clown world is going strong too. My bank bans me every time I pay taxes.

[CaptainOfCoit]

My bank displays me a popup warning me to check who I'm sending money to every time I make a transfer. If I've made that same transfer before, after showing that, it's also telling me that it won't ask for 2FA for this transfer, because I've made it so many times before.

High quality or even medium quality software and UX is getting harder and harder to find.

[wpm]

I sold some camera equipment on eBay once. PayPal flagged my account as fraudulent, asked for a receipt for the equipment which I did not have (I bought it years before), so they banned my account indefinitely.

Randomly, years later, they turned it back on. Thanks, I guess?

[slenk]

They want to make money off your transactions again I guess. Must get more from Ebay

[abustamam]

Fuck PayPal.

Fwiw Venmo is run by the same thugs who run PayPal. So go figure.

[slenk]

Yup. Both bad companies IMO