Shopify erroneously deletes stores and repeats billing charges
A merchant reports Shopify deleted store instances they never created and charged them again for store fees, describing the experience as a scam. This is an account-level billing and provisioning bug specific to one merchant's account rather than a documented platform-wide failure.
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