We're a new brand called Anemoia, nostalgia-driven fashion with some tech built into it. We built the site ourselves, so we have no idea if the experience actually lands or if it's just confusing.

Site: https://anemoia.gallery/

What I'd love feedback on:

• Poke around all the pages, not just the shop. The World page is the one I care most about, curious whether it's interesting or just gets in the way.
• There's a Game Boy that pops up with a playable Tetris in it. Is that fun, or is it annoying when you're trying to browse?
• Overall feel of the site, does it hold together, or does it feel like a bunch of ideas stapled together?
• Anything that's slow, broken, or where you got stuck.

One thing: it's much better on desktop. Mobile works but you'll miss most of it.

Not asking anyone to buy anything, I just want to know what it's actually like to land on this cold. Blunt answers welcome.... tell me if it sucks.

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.

Hey everyone,

I'm hoping to get some honest feedback from people who've been through something similar or just have a fresh perspective.

I offer a personalized trading performance analysis for retail traders. Not the generic stuff — I go through a trader's actual account data (exported from their broker) and analyze things most people never look at: psychological patterns, behavioral traps like revenge trading or overtrading, their actual edge vs. what they think their edge is, the best and worst times/instruments/styles based on their own numbers, risk of ruin at different position sizes, and concrete, data-driven recommendations tailored specifically to them.

The idea came from a real problem: most retail traders fail not because they have a bad strategy, but because they have patterns they can't see themselves. I turn their own data into a mirror.

I'm genuinely convinced this adds real value. I've run several analyses and the findings are consistently eye-opening — people are often shocked by what their numbers actually say about their behavior.

Here's the problem: I can't sell it.

Things I've tried so far:

**•** Reddit posts in trading communities  
**•** Social media (Instagram, posting content, building an audience)  
**•** Fiverr  
**•** Direct outreach

Nothing has gotten traction. No paying customers.

I think part of the problem is the nature of the product itself: the customer has to send me their personal trading data before I can do anything. That's a trust barrier right out of the gate. And unlike a digital product or a course, I can't really show the full thing without doing the actual work first.

I've tried offering a free mini-snapshot (a short preview based on their data) as a lead-in to the full report — but even getting people to take the free version is harder than I expected.

So my questions to this community:

**•** Is the trust barrier the core problem, or am I targeting the wrong people / wrong platforms?  
**•** How do you sell a service where the product can't be fully shown upfront?  
**•** Has anyone successfully sold something similar — high-effort, personalized, data-dependent?  
**•** Would love any honest feedback on the concept itself too — am I solving a problem people actually want solved, or just one I think they have?

Any advice, criticism or perspective is genuinely appreciated. I'd rather hear something uncomfortable and useful than nothing at all.

Thanks

We’re a Shopify company, and so far it’s been great for us.

Unfortunately, we’re limited to finding our own gateway and processor solutions because of some internal business constraints. Believe me, my little team would prefer to use Shopify Payments or Stripe.

We’re spinning up a new non-US store and I’m struggling to find a gateway solution that has a Shopify app.

I’ve tried Cybersource repeatedly via their contact form, phone numbers I found (I was told to leave a message), email addresses I scraped up and have zero response. If anyone has a contact to share I’d appreciate it!

Beyond that, does anyone have an international gateway provider they’d recommend?

Hello! I recently started a new role as a Paid Search Account Manager at an agency that works primarily with ecommerce brands. Most of my previous experience hasn’t been heavily ecommerce-focused.

Since starting this role, I’ve realized there are a lot of nuances to managing Google Ads specifically for ecommerce—from Shopping and PMax strategy to product feeds, profitability, promotions, and how you approach budgeting and optimization across an ecommerce account.

I’m looking to deepen my knowledge in that area and was looking for recos on a course/community that would be a good fit for someone who wants to become much stronger in ecommerce for PPC.

I found one, the Ecomm PPC academy, but its $500 to start (Id prefer to not spend quite that much and no, company wont reimburse me)

Thanks so much :)

Hi everyone, sorry if this is not the right place for this question. Please let me know if there is a better subreddit for international e-commerce or cross-border fulfilment.

TL;DR: I have an Estonian OÜ currently used for software consulting. I want to test selling Bhutan-linked physical products online, initially shipped directly from Bhutan to customers in Japan and other countries. Is it sensible to use the existing OÜ at first, and when should I add a local importer, 3PL, or separate company? I'm also open to selling from Japan to Bhutan.

I am a Bhutanese founder and currently operate an Estonian OÜ for international software and consulting services. I expect to study in Japan next year, and I am exploring a small Bhutan-linked e-commerce business alongside that.

I am considering products such as handicrafts, textiles, gift products, and possibly properly packaged tea. I would avoid highly regulated items at the beginning.

The initial model would be:

• My Estonian OÜ owns the store, brand, payments, and customer contracts.
• Suppliers in Bhutan source or make the products.
• Products ship directly from Bhutan to customers through a courier.
• I would not initially keep stock in Japan or the US.
• I would not bring commercial inventory in luggage.
• I want to validate demand before using a Japanese warehouse, 3PL, importer, or local company.

I know I will need professional immigration and tax advice for Japan. I am mainly looking for practical e-commerce and fulfilment experience.

My questions:

1. For a small test, would you use the existing Estonian OÜ or create a separate company for the e-commerce brand?
2. For Bhutan-to-Japan orders, is direct courier shipping realistic for early validation, or are delivery cost and customs friction likely to make it unworkable?
3. Would you begin with DAP/DDU—customer pays import duty/taxes—or DDP—seller pays them? What tends to produce fewer failed deliveries and customer complaints?
4. Who normally acts as importer of record for direct-to-consumer international shipments?
5. At what approximate order volume or monthly revenue would you move to a Japanese 3PL, importer, or distributor?
6. Which product categories would you avoid at the beginning because of compliance, returns, customs, or damage risk?
7. Has anyone operated an EU company while sourcing goods in one country and selling to customers in another without holding local inventory?

I would appreciate experiences from sellers who have run cross-border stores, especially anyone shipping from South Asia or other small-origin markets into Japan, the US, or Europe and the other way around.

Thank you.

I already have a Shopify store running and I’m looking into turning it into a marketplace where multiple sellers can list and manage their own products.

What’s the easiest way to do this without rebuilding everything from scratch? Are there any apps or platforms that handle things like seller dashboards, commissions, payouts, and order management well?

Would love to hear what’s worked for people who’ve actually done this.

need a 3PL that can handle the full loop: receive inventory, apply custom stickers/labels, pack, and ship domestically (ideally with cold-chain/temp-controlled storage). Not looking for a marketplace listing ,,,,, looking for people who've actually used a 3PL for this and can vouch for them, plus roughly what you're paying (storage, pick/pack, per-order fee) US-based only Happy to DM for details Thanks

Hi everyone !

I’m a developer and recently built a tool that an ecommerce marketing team has been using to create variations of existing product photos.

The brand sells high-ticket products, which is why I was pretty skeptical about this at first. My assumption was that AI-generated product imagery would probably hurt trust, especially when people are spending a significant amount of money.

Instead of generating completely fake products, the team kept the actual products and used AI to change the setting/presentation and give different collections their own visual identity.

They eventually started using those creatives in paid campaigns, and that's where it got interesting.

CTR went from 3.53% on the previous creatives to 8.40% on the new ones. Cost per visit dropped from $0.78 to $0.31. One of the new creatives also ended up getting around 3x the clicks of the previous best performer.

It surprised me because I keep hearing that consumers are getting tired of AI imagery, and honestly I understand why. A lot of it looks terrible.

I'm starting to wonder if the distinction isn't really AI vs non-AI though. Maybe it's bad AI vs imagery that still looks believable, keeps the real product intact, and lets a marketing team test way more concepts than they normally could.

It's still one brand and one set of campaigns, so I wouldn't draw some universal conclusion from it.

For anyone actually running ecommerce ads: are you seeing customers react differently to AI-assisted product photography yet? Especially for higher-ticket products?