Update: Stripe is holding over $400k of mine with no explanation

Re:Update: Stripe is holding over $400k of mine with no expl... by neilv on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @11:57AM (#34234095)

If this extortion practice isn't a common curse of Etsy stores with her scale of revenue, I wonder whether it might actually be a competitor (who gets the sales and customers whenever her store is down).

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Re:Update: Stripe is holding over $400k of mine with no expl... by hex4def6 on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @12:19PM (#34234415)

That seems unlikely. The legal risk you put yourself in doing that would be easy higher than any gains you could hope to make.

This is likely some callcenter-adjacent scam. They're probably doing this to hundreds of shops, and occasionally get one cave in and pay.

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Re:Update: Stripe is holding over $400k of mine with no expl... by m-ee on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @12:46PM (#34234913)

It happens on Amazon, there was a post on here about it. I’m not sure they’d want to double dip and demand the hush money in that case, but it seems possible it happens on Etsy too.

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Re:Update: Stripe is holding over $400k of mine with no expl... by ceejayoz on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @12:47PM (#34234923)

What legal risk? You're a fly-by-night vendor outside Etsy's jurisdiction who can close up shop and have twelve new corporate entities by tomorrow morning.

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