(I WILL SUE) Hey shopify community. I am in serious duress right now and my financial life is in a serious risk because of shopify. I built my own store and used my own money (over $5000) to make test orders because of statistical status. That’s how I run all of my business and build connections. …

Wait what? You placed orders on your own shop? Why would you do that?

Am I not allowed to order from my own store? Because I have money to spare for statistical status. It’s how I run all of my business across all dropshipping platforms. It’s not against company policy to do that. They gave me no reason.

I bought the products that I wanted to be at the top of the website. Because they were going to be the best selling products. Shopify doesn’t seem to understand or respect my form of marketing. Instead they see it as an opportunity to pocket people’s investments.

Well look.. you already had a shop shut down for shady behavior.. and now you built another shop that got closed for more shady behavior. Maybe it’s time to start trying to do things legit? Your putting a lot of energy (and money) into gaming the system when you could just do things honestly. Not t…

why are you trying so hard to miss the point. I AM ALLOWED TO ORDER FROM MY OWN STORE. I have marketing strategies that you obviously don’t understand. None of my orders were flagged. Why You keep acting like im doing something incorrect when I’m doing everything by the book. You keep talking about …

Why is shopify trying to steal $5000 from me?

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dtkiley February 8, 2023, 2:26pm 4

What do you mean by “statistical status”?.. It’s pretty strange behavior to order from yourself..it might have triggered some red flags.

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Why is shopify trying to steal $5000 from me?

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