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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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Their advertised payment processor fee of 2.6% 2.3% depending on your plan is not as advertised. … When you plug in your payouts to an Excel sheet, it will show substantially higher 3.5% 4%.
A fourth rendering of the central figure — now "3.5% 4%", which is lower than “Shopify is EVIL and “Owns” your Store!!!”'s "closer to 5%" two days earlier and lower than “Shopify THIEVES”'s 4.1–4.2%. He also reframes the harm as "one or two% on every order" here, against "several hundred thousand" on 06-08.
It's not like WordPress or when you design your own website where you own the website. When you use Shopify, they own the platform. … you are using their platform and they own your website
The clearest articulation of the platform-control theory, and the organising idea of the video's title. It is what ties the fee claim, the product takedowns and the subpoena compliance into one argument.
They will shut down your payments if you're selling a product they don't want you to sell. Absurd. you know, I was I was selling the hydroxy metitrogene on my supplement website and they just straight shut down Shopify payments and I was not able to uh collect money anymore and I didn't find out about it for a day or two.
The most concrete, checkable incident in the entire Shopify cluster — a payment-processing shutdown, self-attributed to a specific product he was selling. The auto-captioned "hydroxy metitrogene" is 7-hydroxymitragynine (a kratom alkaloid); a commenter independently identifies it as "7-OH" and notes it is restricted. This materially changes how the grievance reads: by his own account the shutdown followed his listing a controlled/restricted substance, which is a compliance explanation rather than arbitrary platform conduct. He does not engage with that reading. Recorded neutrally — the fact of the shutdown, the product, and the absence of any regulatory discussion on his part.
And that applies to legal stuff, too. If there's a court issue and they subpoena Shopify, it's not like you owning the website where you can choose not to provide the documents. Shopify will generally comply with the court order and hand them over whatever they want. Whether it's financial documents, uh the bank you're transferring money to, Shopify will go to you and say, "Hey, we got these court documents. Did you deny?" Generally, they will comply with the court order and screw you over
The fullest statement of the records-disclosure theory that “Shopify is EVIL and “Owns” your Store!!!” states in one broken sentence two days earlier, and the strongest support for linking that theory to C095 (Frank Tufano v. Shopify Inc. et al, NY Supreme 651064/2025), whose recorded disposition is that a motion to stay unrelated proceedings and quash subpoenas was denied in its entirety (2026-02-24). He describes exactly that posture — a subpoena to Shopify for financial and banking records, with the merchant unable to prevent compliance. Still inferential: he names no case, court, or subpoena, and speaks generically about "a business owner." Recorded as a strong topical match, not a confirmed link.
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2025-04276 — Tufano v. ShopifyShopify dispute link · High · Title directly concerns Shopify; multiple Shopify cases share the same dispute grouping.