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Public statement source · YT346
Santa Cruz Snake Oil MAKES MILLIONS and says Money Doesn’t Matter 😂😂😂
Pairs "Santa Cruz snake oil" and Amazon in one grievance, roughly six months before both become co-defendants. The Amazon-exclusion grievance later pleaded against Amazon Inc.
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As if it wasn't bad enough that Santa Cruz snake oil has sold millions, probably tens of millions of dollars worth of supplements on Amazon platform I'm not even allowed to use.
The sentence yokes together a supplement seller and a marketplace platform in a single competitive grievance — and both later appear on the same defendant list. The case tracker shows C036 (Tufano v. Better Life, Lackawanna 2026-01525, filed 2026-03-09) and C068 (Tufano v. Better Life Foods Inc. et al, M.D. Pa. 3:26-cv-00939, filed 2026-04-13) naming Eat Prima / Santa Cruz Paleo Inc, Amazon Inc, Paul Saladino and Lineage Provisions LLC together. This video predates the earlier of those filings by roughly six and a half months, which makes it a pre-filing statement of the grievance rather than commentary on a pending case. It describes market conduct by others, not any filing conduct of his own, and it names no case — so it cannot reach Strong. Tier: Moderate (No filing-conduct factor)
Amazon doesn't let small business owners, legitimate small business owners, sell their products because they don't want the competition. They only let shills pretending to be small business owners actually from large billionaire corporations.
A specific, named-defendant grievance — Amazon Inc is on the C036 and C068 defendant lists — stated here in ordinary language about seven months before C036 was filed. Dating the grievance well ahead of the pleading is the value; the words describe no filing conduct.
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2026-01525 — Tufano v. Better LifeTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:09 researched as bearing on this case: Pairs "Santa Cruz snake oil" and Amazon in one grievance, roughly six months before both become co-defendants.
3:26-cv-00939 — Tufano v. Better Life Foods Inc. et alTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:09 researched as bearing on this case: Pairs "Santa Cruz snake oil" and Amazon in one grievance, roughly six months before both become co-defendants.