kenmck

It speaks very badly of eBay that such a cultish and abusive group was allowed to exist.

There are many. Their feature sets vary a lot.

That's a really odd statement since Stitch's main feature is multi-channel inventory synchronization and Square doesn't do that at all.

Yes it looks like somebody a: copied unencrypted backups to S3 and b: set the s3 bucket to be publicly accessible

BIG oops.

Sounds like they pulled a credit check. I got the same kind of questions when I applied for regular merchant (credit card processing) account.

Why is it that people think that they can open a payment account, transfer thousands of dollars into it as their first transaction and no one will ask any questions or be the least bit suspicious?

What utter nonsense.

Agreed. Actually there is a Sivers book, it's called "Anything you want"

Thanks for the clarification Patrick. I was too busy fuming to explain.

Exactly. I can and will be moving elsewhere. My three puny sites can hardly be making their servers tick over the most active only gets ~2000 uniques on a good month.

I switched to the Solaris hosting some time ago as well.

Some people seem to think that they're entitled to hitch a ride on the huge network effect craigslist has acquired through years of patient effort. The folks are shocked,shocked that craigslist isn't thrilled to let them do so.