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Public statement source · YT618
Shopify will STEAL FROM YOU!!!
In one sentence he states, of a single named opponent, that he has filed *multiple* suits ("I've filed multiple lawsuits against them") and that those suits were dismissed ("The judge just throws them out"). That is the repeat-filing-on-one-dispute core factor stated by the litigant himself, plus a self-reported volume claim and an adverse-outcome description, about a party named in the transcript rather than only in the title or the location tag. Strong test re-applied on the corrected wording: a core factor is present (Repeat filing on the same dispute) and an identified dispute is present (
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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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Glad to see that Shopify is using all that money they stole from small business owners to advertise to other potential small business owners so that they can continue to steal from them. Pretty lucrative business, huh, being a bunch of thieves? And Shopify will tell you that they're taking a certain percentage of your sales, but it will be higher when you actually put it into QuickBooks or Excel or have your accountant audit them.
States the underlying grievance against a tracked defendant in his own words, with an unusually specific mechanism — that Shopify's disclosed percentage of sales understates what it actually takes, detectable by reconciling against QuickBooks/Excel or by having "your accountant audit them." No filing, court, judge or case is mentioned in this passage, so it carries no filing-conduct factor.
Strong pattern relevanceRepeat filing on the same disputeSelf-reported filing volumeAdverse outcome described00:23
Do not use Shopify. They will steal money from you. I've filed multiple lawsuits against them. The judge just throws them out.
In one sentence he states, of a single named opponent, that he has filed *multiple* suits ("I've filed multiple lawsuits against them") and that those suits were dismissed ("The judge just throws them out"). That is the repeat-filing-on-one-dispute core factor stated by the litigant himself, plus a self-reported volume claim and an adverse-outcome description, about a party named in the transcript rather than only in the title or the location tag. Strong test re-applied on the corrected wording: a core factor is present (Repeat filing on the same dispute) and an identified dispute is present (DSP002, named in the speaker's own words), so the tier holds. The corrected en-orig wording is materially the same claim as the superseded translated rendering ("I filed many lawsuits against them. The judge simply dismisses them") — plural filings, same defendant, dismissals — so the Strong classification survives the retranslation unchanged.
I've posted several videos about them. They just get censored and shadow banned. This is uh classic example of corporate evil and these people get too much money. They just pay everyone off.
A corporate-corruption allegation — the opposing party has "too much money" and "just pay[s] everyone off." Tiered down from the superseded file's Moderate — Judicial or forum bias alleged, deliberately. In the corrected en-orig wording the bribery sentence is separated from the judicial sentence ("The judge just throws them out") by two intervening sentences about platform censorship and shadow-banning, so its nearest antecedent is the platform-suppression grievance, not the court. "Everyone" names nobody: no judge, court, official or platform is identified as the recipient. Reading it as an allegation that the forum deciding his cases was bought is *possible* — the enumerated grievances it purports to explain do include the dismissals — but it is not compelled by the words, and the contract directs tiering down and saying why. A promotion pass that takes the broader reading should re-code this row Judicial or forum bias alleged and raise it to Moderate; the call is recorded here so it is auditable rather than silent.
Do not use Shopify. Use anything else. I Maybe there's other platforms that are stealing from people, too, but Shopify is the biggest and the meanest and the worst. Do not use Shopify for your business.
A direct instruction to viewers to stop doing business with a named, tracked opposing party, repeated three times in fifteen seconds and closing the video. It is recorded because it is an *instructed* action against a party he is currently litigating against (C072 and C095 were both pending on the publication date), not because it evidences filing conduct. Per the contract's carve-out, cost imposed by publicity or boycott is not Cost imposition as stated motive — that factor needs the speaker to name litigation or a filing as the cost-imposing instrument, and he does not do so here. He never quantifies or claims a financial effect from the boycott either. The stray false start "I Maybe there's other platforms" is preserved as captioned.
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.
3:24-cv-00846 — Tufano v. Frankies Free Range Meat ConspiratorsTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:23 researched as bearing on this case: [0:23]–[0:33] — "I've filed multiple lawsuits against them. The judge just throws them out."
3:25-cv-00316 — Tufano v. Shopify (USA) Inc. et alTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:23 researched as bearing on this case: [0:23]–[0:33] — "I've filed multiple lawsuits against them. The judge just throws them out."
3:26-cv-01019 — Tufano v. Shopify (USA) Inc. et alTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:23 researched as bearing on this case: [0:23]–[0:33] — "I've filed multiple lawsuits against them. The judge just throws them out."
651064/2025 — Frank Tufano v. Shopify Inc. et alTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:23 researched as bearing on this case: [0:23]–[0:33] — "I've filed multiple lawsuits against them. The judge just throws them out."