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Payouts for a high end airbnb property. They fairly wanted additional proof of incorporatiin which was duly provided.... Many months ago.

It seems almost like insurance companies. Deny first , make claimant jump through hoop after hoop hope they give up.

What happens to the money then? This is very interesting because if they can profit from this we all the more disturbing.

I set up an auto-sweep in PayPal to deposit my entire balance to the business bank account every day. I don't trust them.

Me neither. I find myself struggling to trust any large company. Older and wiser or just jaded I don't know which. These organisations entrench themselves in our lives that even when we dislike then intensely we sometimes don't have easy alternatives.

Size seems to corrupt. Any examples if shining, upstanding, beneficent megacorps?

Not sure about megacorp status, but Stripe never gave me any problems and always works.

Good example, thank you. I wish they had operations in Indonesia.

I've experienced this with $5k buy-in poker games settled via Venmo... I'm sure there's other good reasons.