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Why are chargebacks such a big concern for payment processors?

Card processors designate certain industries as "high risk" and/or will ban individual businesses because of chargeback rates over a certain threshold (typically ~1%). Adult content businesses, attorneys and even furniture stores for example have a high chargeback rate that makes it difficult for them to find processors that will work with them.Why are chargebacks such a big concern for the...

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Re:AR15.com Booted from GoDaddy on Monday January 18, 2021 @02:26PM (#25825487)
When a single "cake baker" holds nearly half of the world's market, as monopolies like AWS do, and routinely colludes with their "competitors" to not serve anyone they dislike or that starts a competing service, absolutely.