Hey everyone, I’m looking for honest feedback because I’m stuck.

I run a small Shopify store selling indoor golf putting gear, and I dropship through CJdropshipping. I’m running Meta ads at about $10/day on a sales campaign.

The traffic part seems to be working. People land on the site, add to cart, and actually get to the checkout page. Then they drop off.

Setting up Shopify Payments, it makes you enter a phone number that goes on the customer’s credit card statement. PayPal has the same “customer service phone” field. Shopify’s reasoning is that if a customer doesn’t recognize the charge, they call you instead of their bank (= fewer chargebacks).

I’m in a different time zone than most of my customers, so a 3am call from someone asking “what is this charge” isn’t something I can answer. Trying to figure out what people actually do here.

Would love to hear from other store owners:

What number did you put there — personal cell, Google Voice, a VoIP number, or something else?

Roughly how many calls does it get per month? (Zero is a valid answer, that’s what I’m trying to find out.)

When someone does call, what’s it usually about — “I don’t recognize this charge”, where’s my order, returns, something else?

Do you answer it, let it go to voicemail, or just ignore it?

Has not answering ever cost you anything (chargeback, PayPal dispute)?

just trying to understand if this is a real problem or if everyone’s just putting a dead number in there and moving on.

Do choice aliexpress choice packaging when it comes to short term dropshipping. Will customers chargeback because of this reason?

Today, I took one of my clients to visit our warehouse in China, where they got to see the entire fulfillment process of their own products - from production and quality inspection to packaging and shipping.
As a Chinese private supplier, I believe that sourcing is not just about finding the right products at the right prices. It's also about building trust and giving clients a clearer picture of what happens behind the scenes.
There's something special about seeing the products you sell online being handled in real life, isn't there?
If you had the chance to visit your supplier's factory or warehouse and see your own products being prepared for shipment, how would you feel? Would it give you more confidence in your business? •

Hey everyone, These are my results from August 8 to September 15 on my most recent dropshipping store. I’m stuck in a frustrating loop and need some brutal advice from anyone who has scaled past at least 1k/day or more. I can get initial sales easily during the testing phase. My highest revenue day ever was $700, but I completely hit a wall whenever I try to scale budget or volume. I always break even or watch my ROAS plummet. I advertise on meta ads.

I am also completely fluent in French, so if anyone feels more comfortable replying or sharing advice in French, please feel free to do so.

I resell brand name overstock online.

I posted an ad and it got rejected for “counterfeit”

How do I get past this? My ad had the logo and name in it.

Should I request a review? Looking for advice

I’m a beginner in dropshipping, and I’m super excited to share that I’ve just successfully processed my very first order on my Shopify store! 🎉

It might be just one order, but it feels like a huge milestone for me. I’m really happy that everything went smoothly, and I want to say a big thank you to everyone who gave me advice and support in my previous posts. I really appreciate it!

Now that I’ve gotten my first order out of the way, I’m curious about how other dropshippers handle order fulfillment.

Do you guys use apps or automation tools to process orders, or do you prefer doing everything manually? If you use any tools, are there any you’d recommend for someone just starting out?

Hello I am seriously learning dropshipping in the big 2026. I’ve been watching hella case studies and every YouTube videos I need for making ads, finding a product, how meta ads work etc etc. I’m looking for a mentor or even someone to connect with who could give me advices. I just don’t have the luxury to make bunch of mistakes although I know that there are risks that I need to take I believe with a mentor I can minimize my mistakes which would hopefully minimize the risk lol. Thank you! I’m locked in guys not fooling around lol

I'm getting more orders on avg now, my current fulfillment setup is starting to become a hassle. Orders are still going out but spending too much time checking their status and dealing with delays. Poor communication is pmo somedays.

I'm looking to switch to something that's better for higher order volumes more reliably. If you do have orders on the higher end would you rec what you use and do they have good communication?

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Hey everyone,

I've spent a lot of time poking around Shopify stores, and the pattern I kept running into wasn't "is this store slow" — it was "nobody actually knows." You run Lighthouse, get a score, and it tells you basically nothing about what a real customer on a real phone with real network conditions just experienced on your actual checkout.

I'd see stores "pass" every synthetic speed test and still have customers bailing at checkout. And I'd see the opposite too — stores panicking over a bad Lighthouse score that had nothing to do with how real traffic behaved.

The problem is synthetic tests measure a lab run once, from one location, on one connection. They're not measuring your store. They're measuring a simulation of your store.

So I built Tilltrace. It tracks real load/response behavior on your actual Product, Cart, and Checkout pages, from your actual traffic — not a simulated run. It breaks it down by device, so you can catch things like mobile checkout quietly being worse than desktop. And it shows a confidence level tied to how much real traffic you've actually gotten, so you're not making decisions off 3 sessions and calling it data.

It's free and in open beta right now, and I'm genuinely looking for feedback — what's confusing, what's missing, what you'd want to see next.

Where do people usually run into this — do you find yourself trusting Lighthouse/PageSpeed scores, or have you already learned to ignore them?

(Link in comments if anyone wants to check it out.)

Ever tried generating fashion photos with AI, only to get the same boring camera angle every time?

Sometimes the problem isn’t your prompt. It’s just that you’re not being specific enough about the camera perspective.

I put together this little cheat sheet showing 9 camera angles using the same model, outfit, and setting.

Instead of just writing “fashion editorial photo,” try adding terms like “worm’s-eye view,” “three-quarter view,” or “high-angle shot” to your prompts.

Small changes in wording can make a huge difference in composition.

Hope this helps anyone experimenting with AI fashion photography or creating visuals for clothing brands!

Hi everyone!

I’m looking for an experienced entrepreneur or e-commerce business owner who would be open to mentoring someone at the very beginning of their business journey.

I didn’t study business and don’t have direct experience running an e-commerce business yet, but I’m genuinely interested in learning and would love to gain practical, hands-on experience. I do have experience working 5 years in Saas sales, though.

I’m particularly interested in e-commerce and entrepreneurship, and I’d love to learn how to take a business idea from concept to execution. This includes market research, business strategy, sourcing, marketing, and the practicalities of setting up and running a business in the Netherlands/EU, especially Dutch and EU regulations, taxes, VAT, and legal requirements.

What I’m looking for:
● Someone with real-world entrepreneurial or e-commerce experience who can guide me step by step.
● Practical advice on what I need to learn, where to start, and how to avoid common beginner mistakes.
● The opportunity to gain hands-on experience and learn by doing, rather than relying solely on theory.

I’m also very open to helping out with your existing business or personal project for free in exchange for the opportunity to learn and gain practical experience. I’d be happy to contribute my time, take on tasks, and get involved in the work while learning from your experience. Ideally, I’d love to build a mutually beneficial arrangement where I can add value while developing my own entrepreneurial skills.

Location-wise, I’m preferably looking for someone based in Amsterdam or elsewhere in North Holland, as I’d love to meet in person initially, then perhaps do more calls as time goes.

Ideally, we could start with a coffee to get to know each other, discuss our interests and goals, and see if it’s a good fit. From there, we can figure out what working together might look like.

I’m motivated, curious, and willing to put in the work. I’m not looking for someone to build a business for me — I’m looking for someone who can help me learn how to do it myself.

If this sounds like something you’d be open to, or if you know someone who might be a good fit, please feel free to reach out!

Thanks! 😊

Hey everyone, I'm planning to start a dropshipping store in India and looking for a payment gateway that works without GST registration or a registered business.

Has anyone started dropshipping as an individual without these registrations? Which payment gateway are you using, and what documents did you need to get approved?

I'd appreciate any advice from people with actual experience. Thanks!

Am interested about the products in these stores and tried many websites that discover shopify store apps but cannot see any dropshipping app

Can anyone help me to discover who is the dropship supplier?

https://juneadel.com/

https://theclothingloft.net/

Is this normal?? Nearly 200k views on tiktok , 100 sessions 0 sales (2 abandoned checkouts being test orders 💀)

Issue could be TikTok they hve to write the link (name).com bcs of the 1k followers minimum.
Audience is fine , mainly Europe. 30% other. Beauty niche. On TikTok bcs I don’t have 1k followers, I just wrote the (name).com. (No not the full url just name.com) Wondering if the link is such a huge issue?

Every week there's another post here from someone about to send money to a supplier they found on Alibaba or through WhatsApp, asking if it's safe. So instead of answering the same way every time: what's your personal checklist before you trust a supplier with a deposit?

I'll start: I always check how long the actual registered company has existed vs. how long the store claims to have been around. Caught a "9 years in business" store running on a company registered in 2023 once.

What's yours?

Hello I’m just starting dropping but I would love to know ,how you can find winning product and also for the advertising what it’s the best way so people will want to buy it ?

I've had a few orders so far with customer text and photo.

For every order I check the name or photo they sent, open my design, put the text or photo in, export the file, then upload it to my print provider (Printify for me) and place the order by hand, because every design is different. If a name looks weird or a photo is blurry I message the customer and wait, sometimes a whole day, for a reply.

If a few orders already take this long, I don't see how I keep up when I have more orders.

How do you all handle this part? Do you automate any of it, or is it just part of selling custom products?

Everyone says typos are the biggest headache with names, so my plan is to send every customer a proof and wait for their ok before I make anything. Smart or will it be too much to handle?

Last month I bought a very nice jacket from a dropshipping clothing store. I am normally a medium and got a size medium of the jacket I wanted to buy. The jacket is very nice but despite it being labeled as medium. It barely fit me, it was probably comporable to an Extra small which was gaslighting me because it was my first time buying clothes from a dropshipping site and I followed their sizing guidelines. I did not even know this was from china until I got the shipping code. As a bit of feedback for the clothing stores. Please list the size conversions on the clothing page description, or at least list the sizes as is but state that it a chinese sizing,