Re:Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation
by geofft on Thursday April 16, 2020 @11:35PM
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Why does that affect SaaS businesses specifically? I would think that's at least as much a problem (if not worse!) for businesses that do non-recurring sales and also for businesses that sell physical goods or non-scalable services. It sounds like if I pay for a steak or a haircut with SEPA, I can get a full refund eight weeks later and make it the restaurant or barber's problem to chase after me for the money, right?
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Re:Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation
by plantain on Friday April 17, 2020 @03:15AM
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That's why you can't pay for a steak or a haircut with SEPA I guess.
Re:Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation
by lis on Friday April 17, 2020 @06:03AM
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Actually you can. A few years ago, when paying with a German bank card, very often the transaction was turned into a direct debit transaction, because they used to be cheaper.
This used to be very common in supermarkets. Every time you had to sign the receipt this was happening. It's not as common nowadays as the fees are now more or less the same.