Received Amazon email about diposing of inventory that have not had a sale in 365 days
We received an email from Amazon with the subject: Sell through or remove your excess inventory to avoid disposal charges
The email says:
"To help you manage your inventory efficiently, we have identified certain ASINs that were created before 180 days and have not generated a sale in the past 365 days or since their creation:
List of ASINs (hyperlink)
In order to help reduce your storage costs and free up space for the upcoming holiday season, we encourage you to utilize the following options to either sell this inventory or to create removal orders.
If these items are still in our fulfilment centres by September 27, 2024, we may potentially dispose of these units at your expense in order to free up space for inventory heading into the Q4 holiday season."
The "List of ASINs" link actually points to a broken page. We have the Automated Fulfillable Removal Setting turned off, so I am wondering why we received this email.
Will Amazon actually dispose of our units because the ASINs have not had a sale in the past 365 days? Did anyone else receive this email?
Received Amazon email about diposing of inventory that have not had a sale in 365 days
We received an email from Amazon with the subject: Sell through or remove your excess inventory to avoid disposal charges
The email says:
"To help you manage your inventory efficiently, we have identified certain ASINs that were created before 180 days and have not generated a sale in the past 365 days or since their creation:
List of ASINs (hyperlink)
In order to help reduce your storage costs and free up space for the upcoming holiday season, we encourage you to utilize the following options to either sell this inventory or to create removal orders.
If these items are still in our fulfilment centres by September 27, 2024, we may potentially dispose of these units at your expense in order to free up space for inventory heading into the Q4 holiday season."
The "List of ASINs" link actually points to a broken page. We have the Automated Fulfillable Removal Setting turned off, so I am wondering why we received this email.
Will Amazon actually dispose of our units because the ASINs have not had a sale in the past 365 days? Did anyone else receive this email?
6 replies
Seller_kIukTwdhvntAp
"Will Amazon actually dispose of our units because the ASINs have not had a sale in the past 365 days? "
Full disclosure -- I do NOT use FBA because I want to control my life and inventory as much as possible.
For Amazon inventory in motion (selling) means making more money while dead (dormant, NOT selling) makes LESS money.
Ask yourself this -
Is Amazon interested in making MORE or LESS money?
If you say LESS, please let me know what drugs you are using and send me some!
My guess is that they will indeed destroy your dead products without as much as a second thought.
Of course, Amazon is well known for sending out messages that should NOT have been sent so you can hope that this is your equivalent of the SEED messages!
Christine_Amazon
Hello @Seller_WY1FDS1qTfG3S
Christine here from Amazon Forums.
I would like to address your questions in order
- Amazon has enabled the automated unfulfillable settings and grayed-out the Disable option. It is not possible to opt out of the automated unfulfillable settings.
- The Amazon Services Business Solutions Agreement requires that you remove all “unsuitable units” from Amazon fulfillment centers. We will notify you via automated email if you have any inventory you must remove. Unsuitable units include those that are unsellable because the customer returned them in damaged condition.
Unsuitable units will be removed on your behalf in accordance with your Automated unfulfillable settings. If you have not configured these settings, your unsuitable inventory will be disposed of at Amazon’s earliest discretion based on capacity, including immediately after returns evaluation. You will not be able to cancel a required removal order once it is created.
Let me know if you have more questions.
Christine
