FBA Fees Doubled
Today my FBA fees doubled- does anyone know why? I have the same product with lots of different SKUs and the fees vary from $3-$5 which I was already curious about. Today most of my Skus went up to $7. Did something change that I'm not aware of?
FBA Fees Doubled
Today my FBA fees doubled- does anyone know why? I have the same product with lots of different SKUs and the fees vary from $3-$5 which I was already curious about. Today most of my Skus went up to $7. Did something change that I'm not aware of?
15 replies
Seller_0rXAME9V4LQSx
Did you check to see if your items have changed catagory? If amazon moved them you may be seeing higher fees from that catagory.
Dominic_Amazon
Hi @Seller_Qoxp7OFI1ZtzB,
Dominic from Amazon here, usually this occurs due to product measurements and dimensions. This help page, Understanding item package weight and dimensions, should provide some great insight on this topic. I would check the dimensions in your inventory.
Best,
Dominic
Seller_ynsRFL39IHvjg
Wow, so many reasons NOT to even think about using FBA......Another added to the lst!
Paul.
Seller_J4xdAQedDDg8G
Just another reason we are dropping out of FBA
Seller_gx7t12XGHqVRU
Typically this is caused by FBA items with any extra plastic in any direction not being taped down as Amazon seems to use a laser-bed to measure items when this in the end really screws over sellers.
How hard would it be for Amazon to simply say it fits in the box or not and use this as a measurement? At our peak that was one employees only job to tape down items all day long (making them ugly) as Amazon measures incorrectly.
If it is taped down that you think the issue is I would typically recall every item in FBA of that Skew and tape them down and send them back in and then request a measurement. Or if you think it is an error simply leave them in FBA and ask for a re-measurement.
Seller_hLH0bAcCwYcos
Check the fee itemization. Were you charged the new "LOW INVENTORY FEE"? That can add up to $1.00 per unit...
I have been doing FBA for 9 years with minimal problems. Receiving tallies always matched my shipment tallies down to the unit. Rarely an exception. Suddenly in the last 3 months, shipments of 100-200 units would come up short 2-3 units every other time. To the tune of $100 LOSS per shipment... Nothing has changed on my end. I still ship everything myself, in micro batches of 30 units per sku or less. And print the EXACT number of labels each time, which is a way to DOUBLE PROOF QUANTITIES. Never any surplus labels means a perfect quantity match every time. YET in the last 3 months, every other shipment has come up short, or with a surplus I JUST KNOW DIDN"T SHIP, at FBA Receiving. I had 2 shipments that were received, and confirmed to be a combined 6 units short of 1 sku, and they wrote me up for a short shipment. Then 2 days later, I run an inventory report, and SUDDENLY 6 EXTRA UNITS get added to a year old, RANDOM, closed shipment, the same DAY 6 units went missing from a new shipment. I told CS about it, and they said QUOTE "We DID find 6 extra units, and they WERE verified to be EXTRAS from the year old closed shipment, not the NEW one that just came up 6 units short THIS WEEK. The fact that we found them the EXACT same day your NEW shipment came up short 6 UNITS is just pure coincidence." If you are gullible enough to believe that, you should also believe that I can turn straw into gold. Having your product come up missing, and losing $100 on product YOU KNOW YOU SHIPPED, and then getting written up for a short shipment on the product that was lost at FBA, just leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Something has CHANGED at FBA. This was not a problem for the last 9 years, until the last 3 months of this year!
Its double jeopardy, just like the LOW INVENTORY FEE, and the resulting LONG TERM STORAGE FEES from overshipping stock to avoid that fee. Not a fan. I PRINT, EXACTLY 30 LABELS. I SHIP EXACTLY 30 UNITS. ALL IN ONE BOX. AT FBA, THEY SAY THEY ONLY RECEIVED 28 IN THERE. THE OTHER 2 UNITS ARE EITHER LOST/STOLEN OR SIMPLY MISCOUNTED. They need a better way to verify inventory, and need to INCENTIVIZE, not penalize, for lower quantity shipments than they want.
