Viral business owner defiant about debts, says ‘liquidation’ helps people ‘rebuild’

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A small business crusader who received more than $60,000 from sympathetic Australians after her heartfelt video of lockdown desperation went viral has been accused of being already broke before the pandemic.

But Carly Soderstrom, who counts friends and acquaintances among people owed a total of $380,000 after her business dissolved, has defiantly stated that “liquidation exists so people can rebuild”.

Ms Soderstrom, 35, who operated her photography and fashion design business as a sole trader in Torquay, 100km southwest of Melbourne, claimed she had been abandoned by governments because of her circumstances. Records of Ms Soderstrom’s business 21, 15, Nine from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission showed it was placed into administration in January 2020.

A teary Carly Soderstrom in her video, which she now says it was not her intention that it went viral.In the statement, Ms Soderstrom said it wasn’t her fault the video went viral and that the liquidation of her business meant the debts would disappear. “Please understand … the people who lost money are not ‘my debtors’. Yes they lost money. We all did.

Apart from emphasising she was single and a sole trader in her viral video, Ms Soderstrom had also complained that government assistance had deemed neither “being able to feed myself … nor being able to pay for the roof over my head” as essential.

 

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Fktard scammer

Another digital beggar cons another few thousand people. Gofundme and others like it should be made illegal to protect the stupid

soupercocky So how many times has she gone broke, once or twice?

Obviously one of the protesters😎

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