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why can nobody at Amazon tell me where I can find the actual "low inventory fees"?
Amazon has told us that they would start charging these "low inventory fees" in April, then refund us the fees for the first month, so we can see how it impacts our business. I can't find a breakdown of these fees anywhere (what was charged, what was refunded etc) I've opened up a support case, and they just keep sending me links to general information about the fees no matter how many times I ask to be directed to a specific place where the ACTUAL fees are broken down for my ACTUAL account in April. Is anyone else finding these fees somewhere?
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Seller_QJnOsMRZjcdjc
Its insane.... We have tried to find this too and can't seem to get a straight answer or an actual breakdown.... How are we supposed to prepare?
Seller_ZRl2jImJfnYfJ
Currently, there is no report available yet.
Seller_S263hujWGkZ0U
MachineTO,
Dont take this the wrong way..... it's Amazon. 70% of the time they aren't sure themselves. They [Seller Support] get the answers from those above and they have to search it out too. I believe it's best to get your answers from an online seller community. Just expect that most issues and question could take up to 2-3 inquiries before you find what you're looking for.
Seller_Bj4mtabjA2xW0
The best we have been able to find is "SKU Economics Report" accessed via this page (https://sellercentral.amazon.com/sereport). We exported 7 days with all 5 fields checked, but I assumed Low Inventory Fee would be in either "Fee Data" or "Fulfillment base rate and surcharges" categories.
Seller_MeNjiBPtSZPht
Amazon isn't adding a widget to our dashboard that tracks the fees per day and gives us whatever information we want
this is obviously by design, out of sight - out of mind
the only thing you can do is go to: FBA inventory, it has a column that says if the upcoming week you have low inventory fee or not.
If you do, check to see how many days on hand you normally have and see what your normal 7 day of sales is.
For example it says I have an item with low inventory fee, I have <25days on hand and I sell 100 units per week.
So the fee would be $.39 per unit that week for 100 units I then assume it would be $390 in that week, pretty crazy right? You can only reference that to your bi weekly payout and check the fees against it... :(
Dominic_Amazon
Hi @Seller_DmxDrFQ1jzDii,
Dominic from Amazon here, the fee is available in the transaction for a specific order. For report style data, you can do this via the recently launched SKU Economics report:
We’ve launched a new SKU Economics report to make financial information in the SKU Economics tool more accessible and to illustrate the breakdown of fees, including the recently launched low-inventory-level fee.
SKU Economics is a tool on SKU Central, for all third-party sellers, that collects fees, sales, ads, off-Amazon costs, and net proceeds in a single view to help you optimize costs and understand your product selection performance. The new SKU Economics report is a downloadable report that enables you to view the costs and fees for each product in your catalog at once. It includes historical charges information for each fee type.
The report allows you to view the economics of your selection at the FNSKU, MSKU, ASIN, and parent-ASIN level. This single source for historical economics data eliminates the need to merge sales, fees, and ads reports to understand your net proceeds.
To learn more about the data included in the report, go to SKU Economics report.
Best,
Dominic
Seller_yYmMTCwJZOpvV
LOL its amazon they are just making a new fee to show for the share holders they are not going to tell you. They are just going to throw a fee when they think they need more money.
It has no no mathematical equation There will be items that if you sell 20 items in a month will be counted as fast moving and also that item that sells once every few months will get also hit and amazon will tell you need to have 5 times more in fba then they can also hit you with long term fees as well
I promise you there will be sellers that will get hit with long term fees on inventory that also will get hit with low inventory on the same sku
Seller_YvPJcV8cv0Kiu
Well, first off they immeidately will lose one of your items, or case.. so the 100 you sent in, will show as 99, so thats good - shrinkage from the start, "good news, you have less fees, since you have less space" lol
Seller_KE8d39r5cgmiy
at FBA dashboard inventory page, there has a list for low inventory fees
Seller_HRcJa1gdGHeov
Transparency is not a strong suit for Amazon; this whole site is a black box for 3P sellers. Fuzzy rules, fuzzy fees, fuzzy customer support; no policies are applied consistently and they constantly add more every day.
Trying to keep track of this is a full time job.
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