The problem in their words
Store owners say people land on the site and add to cart, or come close to buying, but "never actually pulling the trigger." They have "hundreds of visitors" yet few or no sales, and they can't see why. As one post puts it, more traffic "just makes the same problem more expensive," so they want to know where shoppers drop off and what to fix.
Who's asking
- r/ecommerce: 3 posts
- r/shopify: 3 posts
What they use today
- Watching session replays
- Considering hiring a friction point audit
- Trying to recover abandoned carts
All 6 posts
“How did you recover your abandoned carts?”
r/shopify · 13 Oct 2026 · Read it on Reddit (How did you recover your abandoned carts?) “How do you help customers who can’t decide?”
r/shopify · 11 Oct 2026 · Read it on Reddit (How do you help customers who can’t decide?) At what point do you stop blaming traffic and admit the website is the problem?
“But if people are already landing on the site and barely adding to cart or buying, more traffic just makes the same problem more expensive.”
r/ecommerce · 2 Oct 2026 · Read it on Reddit (At what point do you stop blaming traffic and admit the website is the problem?) Help... Why are there so many abandoned carts? Literally 200+ and counting... Ugh! 🤣
“I'm honestly and genuinely wondering why so many people have come so close by either adding to the cart or buying now but never actually pulling the trigger.”
r/ecommerce · 1 Oct 2026 · Read it on Reddit (Help... Why are there so many abandoned carts? Literally 200+ and counting... Ugh! 🤣) “Audit - conversion too low”
r/shopify · 17 Sep 2026 · Read it on Reddit (Audit - conversion too low) Men's skincare brand in UAE — tons of traffic, zero conversions
“The problem: We are getting hundreds of visitors to our site and social pages, but nobody's actually buying anything.”
r/ecommerce · 11 Sep 2026 · Read it on Reddit (Men's skincare brand in UAE — tons of traffic, zero conversions)
If you tested it
A headline for the page: “Find out why shoppers add to cart but don't buy”
Test first: The riskiest assumption is that owners will pay for an outside review over watching replays themselves; a priced audit page shows it if owners submit their store link to order.
- Build a one-page offer: send your store link, get a review of where shoppers drop off and the first fixes to make, with a clear price and an order button.
- Reply helpfully in store-owner threads about low conversion and abandoned carts, and share the page where people ask why visitors don't buy.
- Over 7 days, count store links submitted and paid orders; a handful of owners paying for the audit means yes, while only visits and no submissions means no.
Test this idea
Edit it to make it yours, then see who's asking this week. If you want, Ghostlaunch builds the page and runs the 7-day test.