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Collective suppliers remove retailers with no warning

Merchants lose live listings and pending orders when suppliers remove them from Shopify Collective instantly, with no notice or reason.

Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.

5 public reports · first reported 18 August 2025 · last reported 28 January 2026

Idea report · $19 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Merchants reselling through Shopify Collective report that suppliers can end the connection at any moment, with no warning, no stated reason and no notice.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 5 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.