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Duck and Quail Eggs BACK! Fresh Meat and Blood! Organic Cereal!?
Chargebacks and "harassment every week", immediately followed by a discount offered for positive Google reviews. Shadowbanning as the reason his business ideas do not pay.
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still dealing with few chargebacks harassment happens every week but I I don't want that to be the focus of this video you guys have been supporting me and if you can just uh leave a positive review on Google for any of the businesses I'll link them down below we'll give you $10 off your next order so leave a Google review send me an email and we'll discount the order $10
two things sit in one breath. The first half dates the chargeback-and-harassment grievance to 51 days before C040 was filed. The second half is a viewer instruction with a material incentive — $10 off an order in exchange for a positive Google review — and it is recorded because the archive already holds instructed-action findings of a much sharper kind (viewers directed to review-bomb a named attorney, to mass-report a competitor's one-star reviews with wording supplied). This is the benign sibling of that pattern and is deliberately classified as neither instructed nor ambient harassment: no person is named, no competitor is targeted, and the action requested is a positive review of his own businesses. It is logged so the taxonomy stays honest in both directions.
but guys I have I I don't even know at this point how many like genius business ideas that would make anyone a millionaire but um you know when you're not in the club and when you're Shadow band and censored uh they don't let you make the amount of money that your idea is worth
the platform-suppression grievance in its undifferentiated form — "they", "the club" — with no platform, person, court or case named, 98 days before C043 (TikTok) and C044 (Reddit) were filed on 2024-07-08. Its value is as a dated attestation that the theory was fully formed and being stated publicly well before any platform action existed on a docket.
uh you know I've constantly been dealing with chargebacks and harassment uh as as a legitimate small business uh this week was um was a lot of like chargebacks on the foods website and and to explain that briefly you know people order $300 worth of stuff they receive it and then they file a charge back and the bank sides with them so you know it's hard uh it's hard how everything from the payment provider to the website host to the banks they all you know they just push the cost of the small business and then at the end of the day I'm the one that I guess the short end of the stick but uh it just means like you know if one person does that you know like the amount of orders I have to do to make up for that stolen money is is insane it's just it's insane
The clearest pre-filing articulation of the Shopify / business-platform dispute's structure in this stretch of the record. C040 (Tufano v. Frankies Free Range Meat Conspirators, M.D. Pa. 3:24-cv-00846, filed 2024-05-22 — 51 days after this video) pleads that Shopify (USA) Inc. and more than a hundred other named defendants conspired to interfere with his internet business under 18 U.S.C. § 241. Here, 51 days earlier, he names the same architecture by role rather than by name: "the payment provider… the website host… the banks" — that is, the chargeback processor, Shopify's function, and the issuing banks — as a chain that collectively "pushes the cost" onto him. He describes no filing, no threatened filing and no lawyer; the factor records that absence. "Stolen money" is his characterisation, not a court's.
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2026-00262 — Tufano v. GoogleTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:33 researched as bearing on this case: Chargebacks and "harassment every week", immediately followed by a discount offered for positive Google reviews.
3:24-cv-00846 — Tufano v. Frankies Free Range Meat ConspiratorsTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:33 researched as bearing on this case: Chargebacks and "harassment every week", immediately followed by a discount offered for positive Google reviews.