Why Am I Being Charged by France Marketplace AGAIN? I Don’t Even Sell There!
Hello,
I need help escalating a serious issue that Amazon keeps ignoring.
This is the third time I’ve received unauthorized FBA charges from the France marketplace, even though:
I do not sell in France
I have no inventory in any EU or UK FBA centres
I’ve never activated the France marketplace
Case history:
2021 – Case 6759803362: My product was moved to France by Amazon mistake. I had to dispose of it and was still charged storage fees.
April 2025 – Case 10997353472: Same issue again but no products in any marketplace. After escalation, Amazon refunded the charges.
May 2025 – Case 11139329372: It happened a third time. I received a “Congratulations” email saying I launched in France which I never did.
Support is refusing to investigate unless I add a credit card to the France account which could trigger more charges. They say the case is “resolved” but they never investigated anything. They closed the case today without resolving it.
This is unacceptable. I am not going to risk my company by adding a card to a marketplace I never used just so Amazon can "maybe" look into the problem.
I need help from a moderator or escalation team to:
Cancel any charges
Stop this from happening again
This issue has gone on for years, and Amazon support is just closing cases without fixing anything.
Why Am I Being Charged by France Marketplace AGAIN? I Don’t Even Sell There!
Hello,
I need help escalating a serious issue that Amazon keeps ignoring.
This is the third time I’ve received unauthorized FBA charges from the France marketplace, even though:
I do not sell in France
I have no inventory in any EU or UK FBA centres
I’ve never activated the France marketplace
Case history:
2021 – Case 6759803362: My product was moved to France by Amazon mistake. I had to dispose of it and was still charged storage fees.
April 2025 – Case 10997353472: Same issue again but no products in any marketplace. After escalation, Amazon refunded the charges.
May 2025 – Case 11139329372: It happened a third time. I received a “Congratulations” email saying I launched in France which I never did.
Support is refusing to investigate unless I add a credit card to the France account which could trigger more charges. They say the case is “resolved” but they never investigated anything. They closed the case today without resolving it.
This is unacceptable. I am not going to risk my company by adding a card to a marketplace I never used just so Amazon can "maybe" look into the problem.
I need help from a moderator or escalation team to:
Cancel any charges
Stop this from happening again
This issue has gone on for years, and Amazon support is just closing cases without fixing anything.
3 replies
Seller_DJqWlEby6fi8n
You're absolutely right to be escalating this, and I fully support everything you’ve said. We've been through something similar but more complex. The full story is here https://sellercentral.amazon.co.uk/seller-forums/discussions/t/e63f0a7a-9122-4d11-9a62-164025109fb2?postId=e3c00515-4239-4248-b9e2-915a89bcb4e3.
But in brief, despite never shipping stock to France, Amazon has kept charging us storage fees from there and other unauthorized EU warehouses. Like you, we were told conflicting things: first that items would be moved back to Spain within 14 days, then that "upload errors" had caused delays, and eventually that the inventory didn’t even exist and was just a data lag.
Yet somehow, we were still being charged long-term storage fees for stock Amazon had supposedly purchased from us months earlier. I'm not sure if this relates fully to your case or not as you say you haven't stored stock anywhere in the EU, but it seems there is no functional EFN system anymore. We were led to believe that storing inventory in Spain would allow EU-wide fulfillment, instead, we’ve been punished for following Amazon’s guidance, with zero accountability.
We’ve been told to remove stock ourselves from warehouses we don’t even have access to, after Amazon spent months failing to remove it themselves. Then support insists there’s no real financial harm, only “perceived losses,” which completely ignores the very real costs we’ve incurred. You’re not alone in this; this is a broken system, and it’s causing measurable harm to sellers.
Sellers need protection from systemic failures like this. We come to Amazon in good faith, sellers should be valued partners and deserve fair treatment, yet far too often, we're met with disregard and disrespect. Our case has been going on for nearly a year and we're pushing now to be properly recompensed.
I'm not sure the best way for you to escalate this, we are considering legal advice if something cannot be agreed soon. It's a disgrace that things can get this bad, Amazon should be ashamed at how they treat sellers like us.
@Spencer_Amazonhas tried to help, he may or may not see this and leave a helpful comment for you, but even if he does that may or may not get you nearer to a resolution...