So I cannot understand this new restock limit policy and what its intended to do other than ruin most FBA businesses.

We are a growing FBA seller with high turnover and a very good (almost 600) IPI score. The only way that my business grows (and that of almost all FBA sellers) is by sending new items into FBA as well as keeping your old ones in stock.

As of a few days ago our limit was 27k units, and we have about 25k of that utilized.
Today upon coming to work I noticed that our limit has been reduced to 18k.

So what does this mean for us and I’m assuming thousands of other FBA sellers?

Well for one, we can no longer send in more products. So that means the SKUs we have at Amazon, those will go out of stock, our overall sales go down, and presumably our limit will get decreased again.

We won’t be able to add any new FBA SKUs to our catalog, which is again how most sellers grow sales by increasing they offering count, so sales again will decline, and again our limits will lower.

And lastly, since we can no longer create new shipments and those limits will keep getting lower I have to lay-off my warehouse staff. I employ people to prep and ship our products, and if we cannot prep then I’m just paying them to sit around and doing nothing.

I just cannot for the life of me see how this new system doesn’t result in everyone’s limits getting lower and lower and driving everyone out of business?

Once again, our sales only grow when we grow our catalog by sending in new skus and keeping current ones in stock. Now that we can’t ship, our sales decrease. Now that sales decrease, limits will drop further. With limits dropping further, we can only ship & send even less, hence sales continue to shrink as do these limits.

How can anyone, established or new seller, and especially new sellers grow their business?

This is honestly a red alert and the worst seller policy I have every seen Amazon do.

Please someone at the company, help me understand how this doesn’t effectively put us out of business???