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Account deletion mishandles posts, products and orders

Deleting an account leaves its posts, products and order data behind, or erases content the owner wanted to keep.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

4 public reports · first reported 10 November 2021 · last reported 5 December 2023

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Owners running shops, marketplaces and community sites report that deleting an account leaves its content and order records in place, or deletes content they wanted to keep.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 4 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.