Lost Over £2,000 Due to FBA Measurement Error and Policy Limitation – Any Advice?
In May 2025, I sent a new product to FBA. The actual size/weight is 18cm × 10cm × 5cm, 320g, but Amazon incorrectly measured it as 192cm × 160cm × 128cm, 96,000g.
Because of this, my FBA fulfillment fee was over £50 per unit.
I immediately requested a re-measure, but Amazon repeatedly rejected my requests, saying there was “no inventory available to measure at the fulfillment center.” This continued for almost a month until June 5th, when the dimensions were finally corrected. During that time, the product was actively selling.
Later, I requested reimbursement for the overcharged fees. I thought the issue was resolved—until early July, when I discovered this SKU had been charged over £2,000 in storage fees based on the wrong dimensions from May.
I opened a Case for reimbursement and initially everything seemed fine, but Amazon later refused, citing their policy:
Storage fee reimbursement can only be based on the most recent two re-measurement records within the past 90 days (in my case, June 11 and June 17).
Since the June storage fee wasn’t charged yet, and May 7th is outside the “two most recent measurements” range, they refused to pay.
The problem is—I had requested multiple re-measures in May, but they were all rejected due to “no inventory to measure.” Now they say they can’t compensate me because there are no valid May re-measurement records.
Anyone who has dealt with Amazon knows—once they decide something, it’s almost impossible to overturn. Every time I contacted support afterward, they insisted the charges were correct and ignored the fact that measurement in May was impossible.
As a result, I’ve lost over £2,000 (~20,000 RMB) for something completely out of my control.
Lost Over £2,000 Due to FBA Measurement Error and Policy Limitation – Any Advice?
In May 2025, I sent a new product to FBA. The actual size/weight is 18cm × 10cm × 5cm, 320g, but Amazon incorrectly measured it as 192cm × 160cm × 128cm, 96,000g.
Because of this, my FBA fulfillment fee was over £50 per unit.
I immediately requested a re-measure, but Amazon repeatedly rejected my requests, saying there was “no inventory available to measure at the fulfillment center.” This continued for almost a month until June 5th, when the dimensions were finally corrected. During that time, the product was actively selling.
Later, I requested reimbursement for the overcharged fees. I thought the issue was resolved—until early July, when I discovered this SKU had been charged over £2,000 in storage fees based on the wrong dimensions from May.
I opened a Case for reimbursement and initially everything seemed fine, but Amazon later refused, citing their policy:
Storage fee reimbursement can only be based on the most recent two re-measurement records within the past 90 days (in my case, June 11 and June 17).
Since the June storage fee wasn’t charged yet, and May 7th is outside the “two most recent measurements” range, they refused to pay.
The problem is—I had requested multiple re-measures in May, but they were all rejected due to “no inventory to measure.” Now they say they can’t compensate me because there are no valid May re-measurement records.
Anyone who has dealt with Amazon knows—once they decide something, it’s almost impossible to overturn. Every time I contacted support afterward, they insisted the charges were correct and ignored the fact that measurement in May was impossible.
As a result, I’ve lost over £2,000 (~20,000 RMB) for something completely out of my control.
10 replies
Seller_N0kQDKMgwda6y
im barely hanging on with FBM. I would never dream of going for FBA. I have read too many horror stories, of which yours is only the latest.
Seller_A4ONdeSj9BY4y
NR_Amazon
@Seller_A4ONdeSj9BY4y Thank you for posting to the forums! When you have a chance, can you please provide the Case IDs you are referencing in this thread? I'd be happy to take a look, and see if I can assist!
Regards,
NR_Amazon
Seller_j79oNYyCV93Pq
I had a bit of a similar experience with Amazon FBA.
Due to Long Term Storage fees I issued a removal order in early April to our UK market place, to remove our inventory and ship it back to Denmark. This was done by file upload and the file was accepted by the system. As nothing was moving I wrote to support why our inventory was not removed. I received over 33 replies from support with almost same wording "We appreciate your patience and we are working on the case".
In June I tried again with the same result, and this time I noticed the removal order was cancelled by Amazon. June and July went by with the same generic answer from support. First after warning Amazon that I would press charges for neglecting our case, someone wrote, that cross border removal orders from the UK was suspended.
So, it took Amazon four month to give me a very straight and simple answer, that has now cost us £800 in Long Term Storage fees (charged every month on the 15th). They admitted to their negligence and send me a reimbursement of £140 - how they got to that number is beyond my knowledge.
Our products are still sitting in the UK fulfillment center and the case is not resolved yet. Obviously we need to send it to a warehouse outside Amazon and then ship it back to Denmark.
I have sent a legal letter to them, asking for the full reimbursement, byt typically of Amazon - silence is a way to put verything on hold.
Seller_j30KQjgEjnF6v
Interested to know how you saw Amazon put in the measurements incorrectly. I assumed they took the measurements from the shipping manefest. I'm a bee seller so just interested to learn more.

