Change with Placement Fees, Much harder to qualify for full split
Has anyone else noticed a recent change in placement fees?
Amazon is now including a note that says to qualify for Amazon optimized shipment splits, each item on the shipment plan must have 5 cartons of the same item.
Up until this week, that meant if we had 5 boxes with the same item and quantity on the shipment, we'd qualify for the full split. It could just be one SKU that had 5 boxes, and we'd qualify for the full split with zero placement fees.
Now Amazon has moved the goal posts and said every single line item on the shipment must have 5 boxes of identical quantities to be able to qualify for the full split. Not just one SKU anymore.
We were able to avoid placement fees thanks to our high volume items we send in. That seems to be a thing of the past now.
It seems Amazon has caught on and put the squeeze on, now requiring every single item on the shipment to need 5 boxes in the same quantity to qualify.
Pretty lame to keep moving the goal posts like this, but idk why we should expect anything else.
7 replies
Seller_Sram36TnVt73c
it has always been like this.
you can have mixed SKU boxes, but all 5 boxes have to have the same items and quantities.
I think maybe Amazon wasn't fully enforcing this before, but it was supposed to be like that from the start.
However, I saw a thread today where the seller shipped in 5 non-identical shipments, got the $0 placement fees, but they are coming after him NOW to recoup those placement costs because the boxes were dissimilar...
I have also heard rumor that even if you do as requested, you can still get back-charged for placement fees if one or more of the FBA centers mis-counts your incoming inventory, thus rendering them 'dissimilar' to the others in the shipping plan...
Seller_CW0P5hgbsiqWX
The bottom line in successful retail sales is managing your profit. Make sure you raise your offering price equally, so you are still able to receive your desired profits. If this is not done, Amazon wins and the seller loses.
Seller_RSQuhWLLYCSza
it was always that way since they started this, it is not worth it to make smaller boxes for shipping as there is no real savings amazon wants to get additional storage fees as well its just a $$$ grab that sucks!!!
Seller_BvNn9e09DTHxy
This is a huge issue and I'm shocked more sellers aren't freaking out about this.
