An e-commerce business owner has stopped running Meta ads after experiencing severe performance degradation in October, with daily sales crashing from 15-20 transactions to 1-3.

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        "author": "Green_Genius",
        "excerpt": "This makes no sense. You cant monetise 500K followers? 2mil in euros and youre reliant on meta channel only? 120k subscribers and youre not profitable?",
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        "author": "Lucky_Candidate_7123",
        "excerpt": "Thanks for sharing that, I completely understand you and just imagine the mindset you must be in.\n\n It’s terrifying. I didn’t want to reply because I’m burnt out to be honest and I’m trying to get away from Reddit because seeing other people saying things I’m thinking deep down is terrifying.\n\n I would just give you an advice: your best ideas come when you’re being creative, not when you do things",
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        "author": "Longjumping-Shoe1733",
        "excerpt": "Man that's a lot to carry all at once. New kid, wife's birthday, business falling apart, no wonder you feel like the world is collapsing.\n\n Deleting the whole email list seems extreme. 60k people still there, even if most just watch, some might still buy if you warm them up again slowly. Maybe send a \"hey I disappeared, here's what happened\" type email before you nuke it.\n\n For sponsorships I had",
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        "author": "RizzleP",
        "excerpt": "We've allowed the corporations to monopolise eCommerce. They profit at everyone's expense.\n\n If you genuinely have 2 million euros you've got nothing to worry about, unless you're living crazily above your means.",
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        "excerpt": "Why did you address your post to \"the boys\" like the internet is only full of male audience? Sounds like you were tanking your own business long before the numbers reflected it.",
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        "excerpt": "On the one hand I can hear the desperation in OP’s tone. On the other hand, he has millions in the bank and can even calculate how much he earns off his investments? There are so many people worse off than you.\n\n Not trying to minimize your perceived feelings of scarcity. But some of us are really one economic hiccup from true disaster.\n\n You are essentially in the top 1%. It’s hard to sympathize",
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        "excerpt": "At least on Meta's side, organic is COMPLETELY dead, particularly if your channels are linked to a business/ad account, it seems like they control the organic reach, so you have to, inevitably, turn ads on even if it's just to get more views.\n\n If your YouTube content is good and you have that many followers, I'm sure you'll be fine...",
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        "author": "asianfoodforever",
        "excerpt": "Bro you need to do covered call, I’m able to bring in additional 3k-4K per months",
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      "[post] Time to go organic boys. I gave up on ads today.",
      "[post] Never saw 0 sale days in almost 4 years of running meta ads - but saw so many once since October. Number of transactions crashed from 15-20 to 1-3. Everything died."
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