> The situation sucks but Google's action seems reasonable? Like they can't just let people create new accounts to evade bans.
It seems like the opposite of reasonable to me. You hit the nail on the head for _why_ this happened but this person now has _zero_ recourse for correcting their mistake.
Yes, they screwed up. They shouldn't have let them do it through their account. But now, because they screwed up, you're fine with the action that they can literally never be on the Google Play store ever again? The largest mobile store with the largest share of phones and you can't be on the store because of this?
> ... they can literally never be on the Google Play store ever again
question: is Google really that good at detecting the relationship between an account they banned, and some other new account created under a different name with someone else's credit card?
i mean couldn't this small business get another credit card under a different name and then create a totally new developer account under a different name -- and keep that all totally isolated from the previously banned account?
is that just not practically possible? if it worked at least initially -- what would they have to lose?
It seems like the opposite of reasonable to me. You hit the nail on the head for _why_ this happened but this person now has _zero_ recourse for correcting their mistake.
Yes, they screwed up. They shouldn't have let them do it through their account. But now, because they screwed up, you're fine with the action that they can literally never be on the Google Play store ever again? The largest mobile store with the largest share of phones and you can't be on the store because of this?
Absolutely unacceptable.