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How a tier is assigned.Strong — the statement names a tracked case or dispute and describes filing conduct of the kind the indicators document: repeat filing on the same dispute, filing after an adverse decision, or filing framed as imposing cost on the opponent. Moderate — it bears on litigation conduct or chronology in a tracked dispute, but the case link is tentative or the statement describes something other than the speaker’s own filing behaviour. Context — general commentary with no specific tracked case identified.
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If you're using Shopify as a small business, please immediately check your payouts and make sure they are not scamming you on their transaction fee percentage.
The 2026-06-08 videos are not about the 06-07 misclick at all — this is a distinct allegation that Shopify charges more than its advertised transaction-fee rate. Unlike the four 06-07 videos (an operational mishap he attributes to his own click), this is a claim against the company's conduct, of the kind that could underpin a contract or consumer claim. It is also the only claim in the burst stated with a method of proof (see next quote).
Why this classification: Advises other merchants to audit their payouts against the advertised transaction-fee rate.
it takes less than five minutes to export your payments in Excel and do an auto sum at the bottom of the transaction fee percentage. and you will find it is much higher than the advertised rate. …regardless of what rate they are telling me they charge, not one transaction is even close. It's 0.5 to 1% higher on every single
The most falsifiable claim anywhere in this research's Shopify material — it names the data source (payout export), the method (sum the fee column), the comparison (advertised rate), and the magnitude (0.5–1% higher on every transaction). Whether or not it is correct, it is the sort of claim a research-case-claims pass could actually evaluate, and it is the only quantified Shopify allegation located in this effort.
Why this classification: Sets out his method — exporting payments and summing the fee column — and the 0.5-1% gap he says it shows on every transaction.
They've changed the wording on their transaction fees. I can't even find that wording anywhere on the website anymore.
A distinct, checkable assertion about the counterparty's published terms changing. Relevant to a misrepresentation framing, and independently verifiable against archived versions of Shopify's public pricing pages. Recorded, not verified — that check is outside this skill.
Why this classification: Says the transaction-fee wording has changed and can no longer be found on the site.
A case link records a researched connection between the video and a docket record. It is not a finding that the video caused, or was caused by, any filing.
2025-04276 — Tufano v. ShopifyShopify dispute link · High · Title directly concerns Shopify; multiple Shopify cases share the same dispute grouping.