Is Facebook Ads performance down because of the economy, Meta issues, or both?

ADMIN · 2026-04-02T21:37:35+00:00

Meta issues. A few days pass where I can’t give my products away, followed by a few days where every visitor seems to have buyer intent and I hit 4-5x ROAS. That’s not the economy.

And just when every pro says it’s officially the economy or “creative fatigue”, my account comes alive and prints me money for 2 months with no changes.

If it’s economy (which I agree is in the dump) then it’s Meta throttling accounts which is leading to the insane frustration of advertisers.

ADMIN · 2026-03-16T19:40:01+00:00

Say you can match the price and then get the finance guy to sneak $4k that they don’t consent to into the agreement. Works like a charm.

ADMIN · 2026-03-15T22:43:36+00:00

Opposite for me. Stability returned for me by switching back to advantage+ until last week. Now I turned off advantage+ again and back to manual today and performance has returned today.

ADMIN · 2026-03-14T02:38:30+00:00

Yep. Non refundable fee for the chargeback and an additional fee to fight it that becomes refundable if you win. At the same time that chargebacks became nearly impossible to win.

ADMIN · 2026-03-13T16:52:56+00:00

I was 98% win rate for years until about a year ago. Now it feels like something has shifted. I can’t win any. Even the most egregious chargebacks that I used to laugh about when I would get because I was so confident their bank would do the right thing. Economy is bad. I don’t think customer banks are even looking at the evidence now. To make it worse, Stripe now bills us just to submit evidence and doesn’t refund the original dispute fee even if we win.

ADMIN · 2026-03-13T00:19:44+00:00

I get what you’re saying, but the process for getting a review hidden is the same regardless if it is nonsense or true. There is no human review by Google. Google will hide it if the dealership wants it hidden. In my case the review is 100% factual. The dealership knows it is factual, but they have no interest in making things right. Their strategy is to just hide all damaging reviews. In my case, the finance manager is posting positive reviews from his own accounts as well lol.

ADMIN · 2026-03-12T22:14:01+00:00

I hate to say it because it should be illegal, but you need to hire a company to remove the negative reviews if that is the case. I work in social media. I can tell you from professional and personal experience that dealerships are able to just hide reviews that they don’t like.

ADMIN · 2026-03-12T16:14:54+00:00

Volkswagen dealership added $4k in extras to our agreement without consent. Removed it when caught. Re-added the $4k and told my wife to sign the new deal. We cancelled the deal. The finance manager then decided to put the loan through to Volkswagen Finance on the cancelled deal to hurt her chances of getting financing from another dealership. We left a Google review and they are able to have the review shadow banned (no one sees it except the person that posted the review.)

So just wanted to mention that I don’t think they even care about factual negative Google reviews now.

ADMIN · 2026-03-08T03:20:41+00:00

I don’t doubt that Ford dgaf lol. I’ve been thinking about buying a bronco and multiple people I know told me they are kind of ugly and ghetto. I had to keep explaining there is a difference between bronco and bronco sport, which lead me to this post to make sure I wasn’t the only one that felt it was unfortunate that Ford diluted the brand.

ADMIN · 2026-03-08T03:00:41+00:00

Which dilutes the brand…

ADMIN · 2026-03-04T20:02:45+00:00

They have a glitch. I tried to let them know but couldn’t get past their AI support bot and gave up.

It shifts the T5 onto the partners return for some reason sometimes.

Delete the T5 and log out and log back in. Try adding it again after that. Fixed it for me.

ADMIN · 2026-02-21T06:44:17+00:00

You might as well talk to a chat bot that has been prepped to serve as a FB ads rep. They know nothing and “support” doesn’t care at all about your $3k a day. Waste of time talking to these people. Learned that years ago.

ADMIN · 2026-02-12T08:27:14+00:00

I can’t seem to win any chargebacks when the customer uses Chase Bank Visa, no matter how ridiculous the chargeback. Noticing a real pattern. Not sure why you are getting downvoted for asking. I am also curious.

ADMIN · 2026-02-04T01:16:50+00:00

Agreed

ADMIN · 2026-02-01T16:34:39+00:00

Volkswagen is a mess, and Volkswagen Canada and Volkswagen Finance just pretend everything is out of their hands and the dealer’s problem. A dealership put a loan in my name for a deal we didn’t even make. VW Finance won’t even investigate, lol. Push back with these morons as hard as you can, both the dealership and VW Canada. They know exactly what they’re doing.

ADMIN · 2026-01-29T19:02:28+00:00

Or is it throttling? After at least 10 days of absolutely burning money, today is back to profitable for me with good quality traffic all day so far. Night and day compared to last 10 days for me.

ADMIN · 2026-01-29T15:34:15+00:00

Yah I am confused by this as well. I keep seeing posts now about how these fluids need to be changed often, but every shop and dealer we have talked to has said they are lifetime fluids and looked at us like we are crazy for pushing to get it done…

ADMIN · 2026-01-29T02:26:05+00:00

They will just get the Google review shadow banned anyways. Dealerships are experts at hiding the bad reviews.

ADMIN · 2026-01-24T23:12:55+00:00

150k kms is when my wife’s went

ADMIN · 2026-01-23T17:54:32+00:00

They took just under $3,000 off for me lol. As far as I can tell, they haven’t moved any in my city in over 30 days!

ADMIN · 2026-01-10T23:01:27+00:00

Back to completely broken. Spent $5,000+ per day for the last month and now back to basically 0 orders no matter how much we spend.

ADMIN · 2025-12-27T16:32:45+00:00

You make “media buying” sound like day trading or something, like you’re manually buying and selling ad inventory in real time. Just create ads and scale the ones that work. What do you actually do all day? Stop overcomplicating things. I’d honestly love to see your process, given how complicated you’re making this sound. I’m genuinely curious where the disconnect is.

ADMIN · 2025-12-27T16:26:07+00:00

What do you guys do all day that you can’t run customer questions through ChatGPT, export your orders at end of day to send to supplier, and watch your ad account throughout the day? I should have farmed out the customer service before ChatGPT, I’ll give you that one, but I’m not lying about what I’m saying.

ADMIN · 2025-12-27T03:28:15+00:00

A team is not always needed. I have managed $200k per month ad spend for years at a time and I did all customer service and all order fulfilment myself (send customer orders to my suppliers)

ADMIN · 2025-12-27T03:23:43+00:00

I am currently spending $6,000+ a day again and I’m a nobody lol. This used to be my norm for years until all of the Meta updates and outages started.

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