I am perpetually confused by these threads. If I was facing withheld cashflow in the tens of thousands, I'd have a lawyer ready to go. But here you are, like the other threads, posting on HN about it.
You also appear —as other threads have— to have carried on pushing money into this black hole long after the initial problems. If a payment processor doesn't start giving me my money, I stop using them.
As others have said, stop double-counting your losses. If you send out stock that cost you $100k, expecting $150k, your loss isn't $250k. You have lost $100k and some marketing. You might argue that you've lost potential sales too but if you try to write those off in your accounts, I can't imagine a tax authority that isn't going to audit you back to the stone-age for that sort of stunt.
Honestly the more throwaways I see making these accusations of Stripe, the less I believe them. If nothing else, you're an idiot for not limiting them damage earlier.
You also appear —as other threads have— to have carried on pushing money into this black hole long after the initial problems. If a payment processor doesn't start giving me my money, I stop using them.
As others have said, stop double-counting your losses. If you send out stock that cost you $100k, expecting $150k, your loss isn't $250k. You have lost $100k and some marketing. You might argue that you've lost potential sales too but if you try to write those off in your accounts, I can't imagine a tax authority that isn't going to audit you back to the stone-age for that sort of stunt.
Honestly the more throwaways I see making these accusations of Stripe, the less I believe them. If nothing else, you're an idiot for not limiting them damage earlier.