New FBA Placement Fees
just sharing my recent experiences with the new FBA Placement fees for sending inventory to Amazon.
These placement fees have increased my shipping costs by 20-40%. And not only has the cost increased, but the inventory takes longer to arrive at fulfillment centers because I assume the placement center is now a middle facility.
Does anyone know if this is a case of paying more money to receive slower delivery service? I’m a bit frustrated that my inventory is out of stock while my shipment has been checked in, received, but has been sitting in “fulfillment center transfer” reserve for over a week now.
New FBA Placement Fees
just sharing my recent experiences with the new FBA Placement fees for sending inventory to Amazon.
These placement fees have increased my shipping costs by 20-40%. And not only has the cost increased, but the inventory takes longer to arrive at fulfillment centers because I assume the placement center is now a middle facility.
Does anyone know if this is a case of paying more money to receive slower delivery service? I’m a bit frustrated that my inventory is out of stock while my shipment has been checked in, received, but has been sitting in “fulfillment center transfer” reserve for over a week now.
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Are you shipping pallets or using your own freight services?
The placement fees are new, but in my experience the placement process has been here for a long time. I used to send to a single FC/trans faciity in New Jersey (ABE8) where the cartons were broken down and trans-shipped all over the country. About a year or 2 ago it expanded slightly to another center in NJ and one in PA.
I still send to those three locations esp if it's a single carton, but now they have me sending to centers in VA and SC if it's more than one. The placement times haven't changed AFAICT this year. The processing starts a day or two after the delivery arrives at the FC. I am using Amazon-purchased UPS shipping.
