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I'm wondering which of these came from the card networks and, most importantly, what's the actual rationale for including them? * Virtual currency that can be
by yason 13y ago
I'm wondering which of these came from the card networks and, most importantly, what's the actual rationale for including them?
* Virtual currency that can be monetized, re-sold or converted to physical or
* digital products or services or otherwise exit the virtual world
* Sexually-oriented or pornographic products or services
* Airlines
* Cruise lines
* Flea markets
* Drug paraphernalia
* Psychic services
* Prepaid phone cards, phone services or cell phones
* Telecommunications equipment and telephone sales
* Personal computer technical support
- pc 13y agoAs it happens, I posted a comment that tries to explain some of this a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6188987 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6188987.
- Killswitch 13y ago4. Sexually-oriented or pornographic products or services Would you constitute software development for the adult industry as one of those? I'm a freelance software developer.. Most of my clients are in the adult realm. I build sites for them, and software they buy from me. I'd love to use Stripe for processing their invoices (currently use PayPal) but that worries me that I'm gonna get canned because I wrote a CMS that is used on a porn site.
- nandemo 13y agoI'm not from Stripe, but I think I can answer: you're fine. Porn businesses are avoided mainly due to high fraud rates (including friendly fraud, when the cardholder buys the website services and later falsely claims their card number was stolen). It's not out of morality. After all, many brick-and-mortar shops have no problem accepting card payments for porn magazines. Your business isn't porn, and you're unlikely to get chargebacks, so you're good.
- Killswitch 13y agoJudging from previous companies I've talked to, it doesn't matter. Porn is porn. They want no association with it period. Even if it's just code.
- stephen_g 13y agoCan you explain the telecommunications equipment one? We're an electronic design company setting up Stripe (Australian Beta), and while we don't have any products in this category currently, we've been thinking of doing some networking/telecoms products... It'd be good to hear more specifically what's not allowed.
- johns 13y agoYou should probably reach out to them directly.