Update to EU and UK FBA fulfilment fees starts May 12
Since the start of the pandemic, we have significantly invested in Amazon’s store and fulfilment operations to better support you and our customers. In Europe, we’ve more than doubled fulfilment capacity and opened more than 250 new fulfilment centres, sortation centres, regional air hubs and delivery stations.
These investments enabled tremendous growth for sellers, who have increased sales in our stores by more than 70% during this time.
Like many, we have experienced significant cost increases, and we have absorbed them, wherever possible, to reduce the impact on our selling partners. When we did increase fees, we were focused on addressing permanent costs and ensuring that our fees were competitive with those charged by other service providers.
In 2022, we expected a return to normalcy as COVID-19 restrictions around the world eased, but fuel prices and inflation have presented further challenges. It’s still unclear if these inflationary costs will go up or down, or for how long they will persist. Rather than a permanent fee change, we will be employing a fuel and inflation surcharge for the first time, a mechanism broadly used across supply chain providers.
Beginning May 12, we will implement a fuel and inflation surcharge of 4.3% on top of our current Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) fulfilment fee per-unit rates in the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. In the UK, this will result in an average fulfilment fee increase of £0.10 per unit.
We know that changes to fees affect your business, and our teams are working each and every day to ensure that FBA remains a great value for the premium fulfilment and delivery service that it provides. For that reason, we have recently announced fee reductions and promotions and additional incentives on FBA New Selection.
For more information, go to 2022 FBA fulfilment fee changes.
Thank you for your understanding, and we look forward to our continued partnership.
24 replies
Seller_POrEiTkyfOMz6
Sigh.
It’s becoming almost impossible to make a decent profit with FBA these days. Two fee rises in quick succession and all this while sales are nosediving.
Seller_IZOsKfcRSZMaO
Soon FBA will be parity with Royal Mail apart from storage
Seller_wAn7LAlr0jsID
It would help if the FBA small and light upper price cap is increased from £9 to £10.
Recently, it was done for EU marketplaces but not for the UK.
Inflation and cost increases are effecting us sellers as well.
Seller_Ix2AjBXYnlGQE
Not a good decision already they have increased now again even the selling prices are same Now a days it getting difficult to get a profit.
FBA is going to failed if they did this again
Seller_jxSDcRXbIhVcn
Amazon is already a very rich company and they dont really have to increase prices and the impression we get is they really need to do this when they dont. im sure the increase costs they have to incur is for their benefit as much for small sellers like us. We already pay £28 a month fees plus selling fees.
Seller_2MEYXRuW8BXQG
I only hope what amazon do will be equal to what they charged. Not higher expense but worse service for seller.
Seller_DJh7r1uyRK3cg
If it was levied per order that would be understandable but to put it on each unit seems over the top, especially for Small & Light. Buy 10 of my 100g products and you’re paying £10 per kg shipping. Amazon doesn’t like it when you’re cheaper elsewhere but what do they expect for sellers of small FMCG’s!
Seller_8IYTW1LPZFPUG
I understand why this is happening. My worry is that selling through FBA/Amazon in general will soon not be viable, we will then see more and more sellers closing up shop which is what happened with Ebay. In order to have this platform continue to flourish Amazon needs to look out and help out sellers as much as they do buyers.
