What just happened to accepting Paypal?? looks like they are trying to drive us away

I made my first purchase on Audiogon today and was and still am confused and bothered by the transaction. I wrongly assumed I could use PayPal for the purchase, but there wasn’t any option to do that. I saw that I had to pay by credit card, I had no problem with that. I provided my credit card information on the AG web site and the sale went through. Now I find out that some company by the name of Stripe has my credit card and personal information. I was not made aware of that. Also, AG is claiming I paid the seller directly. I did not. The only company that received my info was Audiogon. AG is getting a financial incentive to drive this business to Stripe in my opinion. 

So in the case of @jdt1 can we assume Stripe was the credit card processor for the seller?  Odd that information wouldn't have been disclosed.  I would hope that Stripe would be authorized to keep @jd1's "credit card and personal information" on-file, unless he actually signed up for a Stripe account.    
I recently made three rather large transactions as a seller on USAM and all three were excellent.  In two of the transactions, I was thankful to be able to arrange hand-delivery of the equipment and especially my two very heavy (95 lb) monoblock amplifiers.  In the other case, payment as usual through PayPal went very smooth.  Reminded me of how things used to be here.

Mitch
I too have recently made usam transactions, 5 in total both sales and purchase.
All went very smoothly with PayPal being no hassle in any.

Making me wonder what is truly going  on with Agon.......

eBay still accepts PayPal. If you’re required to use your ID #, it’s under your account. AG support says that Stripe processed the payment, not them. I sent AG a screenshot of the payment made to them. They still state that I paid the seller. I don’t care about the size of stripe or anything else. If a third party is going to handle payment, I want to be taken to their site just as I am when I use PayPal. I didn’t sign up to use stripe and was never given the opportunity to use another payment method. Why not?

in these days of heightened awareness of online privacy and security, I want to know who gets my info. And whether or not I want them to have it.