<story><title>Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?</title><url>https://medium.com/@johnsalzarulo/didn-t-homejoy-shut-down-e8d7a2dfb485</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>Your CC is probably safe on Stripe&amp;#x27;s servers.&lt;p&gt;Which makes me wonder -- does Stripe allow entire accounts to change hands willy-nilly like this?</text></item><item><author>jasonlaramburu</author><text>Aaron, I was a homejoy customer. I am frustrated and concerned that my credit card # was sold to another company without my consent. How can users opt-out of having their data sold to flymaids (or any future ventures)? The fact that flymaids&amp;#x27; site is a poorly-built clone of a competitor&amp;#x27;s site also makes me scared that my data is not being protected.</text></item><item><author>aarontcheung</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m one of the founders of Homejoy.  I&amp;#x27;m still very passionate about the home service space.  After leaving Homejoy, I started FlyMaids, where we&amp;#x27;re exploring a few different angles on the space.&lt;p&gt;We recently acquired the customer and service provider data from Homejoy.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;re a small team that has been focused on moving quickly while bootstraping.  We tried to quickly test different approaches, but we realize now that we did so in an unclear manner.  We recognize the need to use the data we acquired responsibily.  As a result, we&amp;#x27;re taking the site down, and we&amp;#x27;re going to do a better job with our testing moving forward.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noneTheHacker</author><text>Yes, Stripe makes it SUPER simple for accounts to change hands.&lt;p&gt;I bought a small business from a brokerage site.&lt;p&gt;He transferred the Stripe account to me no problem. It was as simple as me making a Stripe user account and then him adding me to the account he used for the business and then me removing him.&lt;p&gt;The entire process took minutes. It took about 3 weeks for PayPal.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.stripe.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;change-account-owner&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.stripe.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;change-account-owner&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?</title><url>https://medium.com/@johnsalzarulo/didn-t-homejoy-shut-down-e8d7a2dfb485</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>Your CC is probably safe on Stripe&amp;#x27;s servers.&lt;p&gt;Which makes me wonder -- does Stripe allow entire accounts to change hands willy-nilly like this?</text></item><item><author>jasonlaramburu</author><text>Aaron, I was a homejoy customer. I am frustrated and concerned that my credit card # was sold to another company without my consent. How can users opt-out of having their data sold to flymaids (or any future ventures)? The fact that flymaids&amp;#x27; site is a poorly-built clone of a competitor&amp;#x27;s site also makes me scared that my data is not being protected.</text></item><item><author>aarontcheung</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m one of the founders of Homejoy.  I&amp;#x27;m still very passionate about the home service space.  After leaving Homejoy, I started FlyMaids, where we&amp;#x27;re exploring a few different angles on the space.&lt;p&gt;We recently acquired the customer and service provider data from Homejoy.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;re a small team that has been focused on moving quickly while bootstraping.  We tried to quickly test different approaches, but we realize now that we did so in an unclear manner.  We recognize the need to use the data we acquired responsibily.  As a result, we&amp;#x27;re taking the site down, and we&amp;#x27;re going to do a better job with our testing moving forward.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TimSchumann</author><text>My guess is the account never changed hands. Stripe can&amp;#x27;t really prevent a legitimate owner of an account from doing something stupid with it. At least, not until after the fact.</text></comment>