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The fees come from the bank and are the same on stripe so, that part is just how the game works.

I see the 'not fighting disputes' from both sides; as a vendor it sucks, but for paddle fighting them is a loose loose game, it would cost them say 50-200$ in time to handle each one and they get some of the liability for it too, also imagine paddle gets really good at fighting chargebacks - where do you think the fraudsters will go to process payments?

AFAIK fees are put by banks not the Paddle/Stripe. Stripe also 'charges' $15 for any dispute, even if won.

Agreed on the chargeback fee they really dont give a shit. I have learned to deal with their V1 API, it has a lot of weird quirks. Kinda wish they offered a better upgrade path to the new billing.

Lemonsqueezy is a lot more expensive than Paddle especially if you are EU based. Hidden fees and things like they only payout USD so you are paying exchange fees multiple times.