Ultimately a tale of persistence in contacting support. Someone less confident or desperate or aware of their rights and associated costs of the issue would probably have not followed through.

Ultimately also a sign that Stripe's fraud prevention and support are pretty bad. Not Google-Level bad But certainly if it takes an active g tech literate merchant a day to resolve such an issue this is 100% on stripe and the author should not have gone through this pain.

Gah, interesting story.

But terrible presentation.

Hundreds of paragraphs.

Of just 1 or 2 sentences.

Maybe some like reading that stuff.

But I was just scrolling.

Trying to find the meat.

Authors, learn to be more concise.