Up until recently, my business partner and I have loved using the Shopify platform. My partner and I come from a background of eCom and Fashion, launching a company together via Shopify a few months ago. But just when all is going well, sales growing and buzz trending, Shopify’s “Risk” team hit our …

They screwed me too..asked for a bunch of documents and held my businesses money hostage for 4 months saying I needed to provide ridiculous proof of this and that and then atfter a dozen emails I sent pissed off about this they messaged me back saying they redacted their request for the documents an…

What about a group sue? The guy is a billionaire, after all… It this the way he became one? Scamming common people who are struggling to start small businesses? An insideout Robin Hood It seems to me it’s more than time for Shopify to start paying us back!

Same has happened to my store, they’re risk team have held our payments because we dropship some of our products and because we had two chargebacks which come from the same address we are now high risk which I don’t understand but it’s like talking to a brick wall. Coming back with the same response…

The same happened to my store where they shut it down with no warning due to “high risk” and is hard to contact them back. They hold over $2,000 In my store that I can’t get to and as a small start up business, that’s a lot of money. And shutting the store down around the time I had buying reviewing…

The exact thing happened to me yesterday. I spent nine months designing and building the site. I have spent over $60k on the site. They completely blocked my site. I cannot accessing my assets and information to rebuild the site on a different platform. I just had one sale, and they froze it for thr…

They did it to me today. I have a brick and mortar toy store and an online store. I was notified at 4:32 today (first contact), with a full store full of people, that I was being shut down due to copywriting infringement. Everyone’s credit cards were then declined and nobody had cash so I had to shu…

They are absolutely fixated on Disney for some reason. It took almost two years to sort out and in the end we removed all references to it. Why are you using Shopify for card payments in a f2f store??

Because I also have a website and it has been easier to have everything processed together …

I would be happy to start a class action lawsuit against them with you Chris. BEWARE of using shopify balance account - I had $6,000 in my shopify BANK account (not from the payouts) funds that i added from other bank accounts, Shopify randomly flagged my store for being high risk and they TOOK my …

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Derekbusiness January 24, 2024, 4:31pm 30

Email me when you have found a lawyer. Im looking for one too. derekdinbusiness@gmail.com

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