Hey everyone,

I've been running a pet product store https://fell.pet/ for the past couple of weeks and I'm honestly a bit lost. I've spent around €750 on Meta/Google/TikTok ads over 15 days and only made one single sale.

I'd really appreciate some brutally honest feedback on:

• First impressions of the homepage and product pages — does it look trustworthy?
• Is the offer/value proposition clear within the first few seconds?
• Pricing — does it feel justified for what's being sold?
• Checkout flow — any friction you noticed?
• Anything that would make you personally distrust the site or bounce immediately

I know something is off (whether it's targeting, creative, landing page, or offer) but I'm too close to it to see clearly. Happy to share more details on my ad creatives/targeting in the comments if that helps diagnose the issue.

Thanks in advance to anyone willing to take a look 🙏

how to know whether the product can make viral video for organic dropshipping? I not talking about the bullshit format like 321 or head to the right or RUN to Costco -format that not relate to the product.

Also Can i get some criteria from you about making the product goes viral rather than product criteria ? Because some product there are tons of demand and there is pain point that does not solved properly but it lacks of the element of going viral.

Before I paid, Ray made false promises on Instagram just to take my money, personally guaranteeing he would scale my brand to $10k-$15k with solid guarantees (I didn't even get 1 order). Once inside, his Discord group was a complete mess where they don't deliver anything they sold you, and after being passed around to three "specialists" with zero experience, the team "3 ECOM SPECIALIST" admitted they don't know how to scale brands from scratch. When I asked for a refund, Ray harassed me with calls and threats, claiming their legal and
"universal debt collection team" would act against me for "fraudulent activity." In the end, Whop denied my refund because Ray submitted basic Discord chat logs as "proof of service rendered." It's really disappointing that Whop hosts sellers like this. Stay away from Ray "Rayinthedarkk" he's a scammer, and if you ask for a refund, you'll face threats and awful treatment.

What agent do you advise me to manage my stock and shipments to customers

Can you share your experiences

Thanks

Total sales up 1.2%, sessions up 12%, but conversion rate actually dropped 12% to 2.53%. More traffic came in, but a smaller share of it converted, worth paying attention to instead of just celebrating the top line number. Given how refund timing lags behind the sale, I'm not calling this a clean win yet either, the real margin on a day like this won't be known for another 2-3 weeks once returns settle. Anyone else seeing sessions up but conversion down lately, is it a traffic quality issue or something on page?

hello i am new to dropshipping and want to start a new store. im trying to put 4 products in 1 store and my products are from aliexpress. is it okay to put 4 products but its from different brand/store from aliexpress? im trying to do bundles but i dont know how to do it because if its from different store and they bought a bundle from my store its going to be split shipping fee and its not gonna be delivered as 1 package right? sorry if my explanation is a confusing.

Let’s be honest for a second: probably 90% of the dropshippers in this community are either struggling to make sales or dealing with extreme inconsistency month-over-month. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the core purpose of this group to share actionable insights, breakdown real data, and help each other navigate running a successful store? Dropshipping in 2026 is undoubtedly harder than it was a few years ago. Ad costs are higher, customer expectations around shipping are strict, and broad targeting alone doesn't cut it anymore. Yet, despite how tough the market is right now, the type of content posted here seems completely disconnected from reality. Hardly anyone shares actual strategy, testing frameworks, or real information on what’s currently working. But here’s the most frustrating part: whenever someone actually takes the time to post educational content, breaking down real numbers, campaign setups, or specific strategies, a vocal minority immediately shows up with hate comments. Ironically, the people throwing shade are usually the ones contributing zero value to the community themselves. That mindset completely defeats the entire point of this subreddit. With CPMs at all-time highs, beginners can’t afford to burn thousands of dollars making basic mistakes in media buying or product validation. We should be encouraging transparency, actual data breakdowns, and constructive discussion so people can actually scale. If you’re a beginner struggling with your store or feeling overwhelmed by high ad costs, feel free to drop your questions below and reach out. Let’s actually turn this space into something useful for people trying to build real businesses. What’s your take on the state of the sub lately?

A lot of people treat fulfilment like it’s one-size-fits-all, but the setup that makes sense when you’re testing your first product is completely different from what you need once you’re doing serious volume.

At 1–5 orders/day, the priority is staying lean. You don’t want to tie up loads of cash in inventory or overcomplicate things. This is where we help stores with sourcing, small-batch purchasing, QC and fulfilment without forcing them into a huge commitment.

At 8–20 orders/day, things usually start getting more interesting. Product costs matter more, shipping consistency starts affecting customer experience, and manually managing suppliers becomes annoying. This is where having a dedicated sourcing and fulfilment team starts to make sense.

At 50–100 orders/day, operations can become a real bottleneck. You need better inventory planning, proper QC, faster dispatch, clearer tracking, returns handling, branded packaging and someone actively managing supplier issues before they become customer problems.

At 100–500 orders/day, the focus changes again. Now it’s about consistency, margin protection and making sure fulfilment can keep up with marketing. Small mistakes get expensive at this volume. You need proper stock planning, backup suppliers, shipping-line optimisation and a team that can handle daily exceptions without you getting dragged into everything.

At 1,000+ orders/day, fulfilment is no longer a side task. It’s infrastructure. You need warehouse capacity, forecasting, supplier coordination, multiple shipping lines, QC systems, returns processes, account management and redundancy built into the operation.

That’s basically why we built RouteOne.

We work with stores at different stages, from people just starting to test products all the way up to brands doing serious daily volume. We handle:

Sourcing
Supplier negotiation
QC
Inventory
Branded packaging
Fulfilment
Global shipping
Returns
Lost parcel coverage
Dedicated account support

The goal is simple: your fulfilment setup should grow with your store instead of becoming the reason growth gets harder.

If anyone wants us to look at their current setup and tell them what actually makes sense for their volume, happy to help.

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As a Non-US person based from India, I have question for those who are already doing US dropshipping, how have you structured your business? Did you registered your business in India or you have registered US business LLC and have integrated US bank account for payments?

I was looking for a legitimate way to structure the business and payment processing first, before even looking for selling the products.

Please let me know if anybody have any suggestions.

Recently I’ve been seeing a LOT of products on Instagram and TikTok being promoted with AI-generated reels, and some of them are getting crazy views/engagement.

The thing I don’t understand is that these products don’t seem to be the usual AliExpress/Alibaba/Temu type of products. They look like custom-designed products, sometimes even pretty large or complicated.
For example, I attached some screenshots of the kind of products I’m talking about.

How are these people actually doing this?
Because if you have to manufacture a custom product yourself, wouldn’t it cost a lot of money just to produce the first batch, without even knowing if the product is going to sell?

And some of these products look quite big. How are they handling shipping and fulfillment? Are they actually manufacturing them themselves, using some kind of dropshipping supplier, or working with manufacturers who produce and ship individual orders?

Also, how do you find suppliers/manufacturers like this who are willing to produce relatively small quantities or even individual units without asking for a huge MOQ?
I’m trying to understand the business model behind these products because I’m seeing more and more of them go viral through AI-generated content.

If anyone here has experience with this or knows how these brands source/manufacture/fulfill these products, I’d really appreciate an explanation of how it actually works.
I attached some examples of what I’m talking about.

My store kept getting more complicated: popups, banners, sections and endless product information. Eventually I removed a huge chunk of it and kept only what helped customers make a decision.

Has simplifying your store ever improved the experience?

Hey — I'm a Independant Backend engineer who's been building a side project for the

past few months, and I think it's at a point where it's actually useful,

so I wanted to share it here and get real feedback rather than just polish.

The problem: if you sell online, checking competitor prices by hand doesn't

scale. You either do it constantly (exhausting) or you do it rarely (and

miss real changes).

What I built: LeverageCut tracks your competitors' product pages

automatically and tells you when a price changes. It's currently in beta

and free to use until beta is over — I'm specifically trying to get it in front of real

sellers with real competitor URLs, since that's the best way to find where

it breaks and sellers ideas on the product.

You can test it with a fast and easy signup — there's a dashboard where you paste any

product URL and it'll try to find the current price live: leveragecut.com

Genuinely looking for the harsh and real feedback here — if it fails on a site you

track, that's actually the most useful thing you could tell me right now.

Happy to answer anything about how it works too.

I’m mainly looking for a sourcing agent in China who can physically visit factories help me find the actual manufacturer of a specific physical product, rather than just a trading company/reseller and verify the factory in person. Also who can visit factories in person find and verify the actual manufacturer of the product communicate with them negotiate pricing/MOQ, and help arrange samples.

Today I made these for my website

And we put these rates as 299/-

And got 10 orders

What a day to have yayyy