What r/ecommerce keeps coming back to
Complaints raised here by more than one person. One-off posts are not included.
50 recurring problems · 135 threads read · read since September 2026 · Reddit
Raised more than once here
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- 53HubSpot is down and timing out right now“from past 5-6 months meta outages are killing my sales and m numb now..”
- 25How do I know if I can DIY a repair or need a pro?“Totally new to ecommerce, and wondering if I have to have a Chinese sourcing agent.”
- 19Why does fixing AI mistakes take longer than doing it myself?“Gemini is defaming and lying about my business. How do you even combat this?”
- 18How to stop fraudulent chargebacks on online stores“Random chargebacks.”
- 16How to get Etsy traffic and sales for a niche store“Need feedback on what I can do to fix this. Currently working to reach restaurants on Instagram since I am doing free delivery in Broward, miami bade and palm beach but nothing i do seems to be working .”
- 15Why does Etsy automatically refund buyers without seller approval?“Pretty simple: how do you guys handle customers who have emailed claiming they didn’t receive items in their order, or that the wrong items were sent?”
- 12Why are clients suddenly ghosting contracts and sales slowing down?“Sometimes i have good days like 6K-8K other 2K-3K how to maintain a stable income maybe and expand and scale it more”
- 12How to stop copycats from stealing my designs and photos“After recently restocking months later and restarting Facebook ads, I began seeing comments on my new ads calling the product a “scam” or saying it was missing its core feature.”
- 11Why is this community full of sales pitches and spam?“It feels like only one in five posts lately is from someone with a real ecommerce problem. The rest are thinly disguised dev research, AI-tool validation, agency lead-gen, or startup people fishing for merchant pain points.”
- 11Why does social media traffic never convert to sales?“I ran ads on tiktok for 24 hours with a $40 budget.”
- 10Why do purchased reviews disappear and drop my ranking?“why do trustpilot reviews feel like a kick in the b*lls every time!”
- 10Why am I paying extra customs fees on international packages?“With the US, since this mess started it’s ridiculous how many people are rejecting parcels. Even when they are warned before hand, and i personally let them know before hand before i ship.”
- 9How to figure out what product to sell online“Do you know what youre going to sell?”
- 7How to start an online store with no money“Now I want to start again, but this time I'm basically starting with $0 and I want to do things the right way.”
- 7How to tell if an international online marketplace seller is a scam“Spent almost a month talking to a supplier who had clean photos, reasonable MOQs, and kept insisting they owned the production line.”
- 7Why does my store and brand name disappear in AI search?“Has been seeing AI not finding their store (by name) or the products you named (not a national brand, but like the products you named) come up when GPT or AI Overviews returns an answer.”
- 6Should I use WordPress or Wix for a new business website?“I’m looking to start an online coaching business but don’t know where to host/build my website. Should I use squarespace, wix some other site?”
- 5How do I stop my business from depending entirely on me?“The challenge is all the unsexy stuff - Inventory, Creative, Ads Mgmt and also back of the mind worries about competition and cashflow.”
- 5Why does running an online store require paying for so many apps?“Half the posts here lately are some version of "I'm paying for 12 apps and I've barely launched" or "I've got 9 tabs open every morning just to figure out how yesterday went."”
- 4Commercial landlord wants a 40 percent rent increase“My business is in an industry where 90% of products are made in China and the rollercoaster of tariffs have taken a huge toll on my mental health and my financial well-being.”
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