Low inventory fee for seasonal items
As I'm prepping to send items to FBA for the holiday season, I'm thinking that it makes zero financial sense to send to FBA. We will get hit by a low inventory fee come January/February on all our products(!) when our sales slow and we don't have the very high levels of stock we need to get through the next few months. Does anyone have this issue, any tips on how to get around this?
Low inventory fee for seasonal items
As I'm prepping to send items to FBA for the holiday season, I'm thinking that it makes zero financial sense to send to FBA. We will get hit by a low inventory fee come January/February on all our products(!) when our sales slow and we don't have the very high levels of stock we need to get through the next few months. Does anyone have this issue, any tips on how to get around this?
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Bryce_Amazon
Greetings @Seller_Cs7aglCqKocf5,
I've covered this in the past, but will be happy to address this here as well.
The seasonality impact on the low-inventory level fee is currently addressed in the FAQ, but I understand the challenge it still represents. Currently the answer to this issue from Amazon is:
"How will the low-inventory-level-fee affect different product types (for example, seasonal products)?
Different products with different sales volume may be affected differently by the fee. However, you can minimize or avoid the fee by sending in additional units such that the product’s short-term (last 30 days) historical days of supply exceeds 28 days, or by managing your product’s long-term (last 90 days) historical days of supply."
There was an update to the fee a few months ago that exempts certain, lower-selling items:
"The low-inventory-level fee won’t apply to the following:
Products that have sold less than 20 units in the past 7 days."
Apologies for the frustration this has caused, but please let me know if you have any other questions.
- Bryce
Bryce_Amazon
As the fee requires both the short-term and long-term historical days of supply to be less than 28 days, would your long-term historical days of supply still be >28 days in this event?