This sucks. I paid $25 for my play console account to monetize my extension two days ago - just to find out they deprecate web store payments entirely.
And if it turns out that there's a pattern of a _lot_ of developers who all recently signed up for first-time Google Play Developer accounts just to monetize Chrome apps, I'd be maybe a little surprised, but more than happy to have helped identify an unexpected trend.
I'd also be curious what happens if people ask the normal channels for the refund, of course.
They'll ask for proof, just put you paid for a service that will no longer exist and include screenshots of the deprecation page.
Alternatively, simply wait 12-18 months and the same feature will be relaunched under a slightly different name by a different team
Stripe is a processor with more generous chargeback terms than many out there, but merchants with small payments still suffer from them very much.
Similarly, until I weaned myself off using Amazon for majority of shopping, I had minor anxiety over other Amazon stuff. Like my return rate and I had 2 incidents of being sent junk instead of the couple hundred dollar electronic. I’m sure they log how often it happens to a customer and it’s possible to not be stealing but still get booted if it happens too much.