This story is short and concerns my worst experience to sign up and complete the registration process to become a user of stripe.com. I just finished writing a review of my nightmares with Stripe whose staff have no good support nor even understand the importance of simple “customer service”. Here is the link to my review on trustpilot.com. I don’t know why medium does not want to use PayPal, my best and preferred payment processor and will give it 5 stars rating any day due to its support and help anytime of the day. PayPal does not operate faceless platform and provides many ways by which users can lodge complaints, resolve issues quickly and much more.

A second issue that I have was that medium decided to keep silence on this occasion why Stripe is the preferred payment option for its partner program. I had started the registration process on the 19th of December 2022 and had success completing the processes on Christmas day (25/12/22) with help and assistance from both my bank and telephone provider. For me, stripe became compulsory because “medium” will not accept other payment methods like PayPal.

To make matter worse, I decided to check the reviews left by users of medium, guess what, medium.com has 72% 1-star rating, 1.9% with the highest rating of 2-star with no responses to at least clear the issues on the aggrieved users. I find this hard to believe and will really appreciate if the community and the new owner can investigate this. This is not acceptable to me by all standards.

The new year will end in a few hours’ time, and we will be in a new year 2023. I hope you have written your new year resolutions, draw your plans of action to guide you, otherwise, new year resolutions without actions, plans, goals, and missions gets discarded within the 1st 3 days of the new year (January 2023), hence, you continue with the usual norm — “comfort zone”.

Comfort Zone — yes, you will never be discovered and have succeeded in helping others to find their “footprints”.

Remember, if you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

Let us make the “world” a better place for “us all”. Everyone will bow out when the “Owner” comes calling, and no one knows!

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People — 2 things “stood-out” for “me” — “Begin with the end in mind” (2) “Win-win”, not “win-lose”, or “lose-lose”, etc.

Please make sure you read some of my previous articles, here is the link

Here is the link to some of my recommended books, platforms — though most are still in the early stages — always think “win-win”.

Here is the link on the article that I wrote and posted on LinkedIn.

See you all in the new year 2023! If I did not have time to reply to your comments, inquiries, questions, follow-back, I will do it beginning January 2023.

Disclaimer: Some of the recommended books contain “affiliate links”. If you decide to make a purchase, I will earn little commission(s). Thank you.