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Fulfilment by Amazon Returns
by Seller_mIRnuhdx7l5sN

Ever wondered if you could have more say in how Amazon processes your FBA returns? There's actually a whole system you can customise to your needs.

By default, your Fulfilment by Amazon inventory is evaluated into a saleable or unsaleable condition when a customer returns an item marked as damaged in an Amazon fulfilment centre. When you disable returns evaluation for your Fulfilment by Amazon inventory, Amazon will no longer evaluate your customer returns. All returns will be marked as defective and won't be eligible for reimbursements if damaged.

Enable returns evaluation

To enable your returns evaluation settings:

  1. Go to Fulfilment by Amazon inventory evaluation settings and then go to Returned Item evaluation settings;
  2. By default, Amazon will evaluate all of your returned inventory to determine if it's saleable or unsaleable;
  3. To enable returns evaluation for a portion of your inventory (and disable returns evaluation for the rest), choose Enable returns evaluation for select ASINs.

Disable Returns evaluation

Important: Before you decide to disable returns evaluation, read the terms and conditions and review your Automated unfulfillable settings to guarantee you're enrolled in at least one value recovery option (that is FBA Grade and Resell, Liquidation, Donation) or return removal option.

To disable returns evaluation settings:

  1. Go to Fulfilment by Amazon inventory evaluation settings and then go to Returned item evaluation settings.
  2. To disable returns evaluation for all of your inventory, choose Disable returns evaluation for all ASINs. This action disables evaluation of all returned items.
  3. Note: Undeliverable returns are ineligible for evaluation. To check for undeliverable units, go to Fulfilment by Amazon customer returns and download the report. Look for the reason Undeliverable.
  4. To disable returns evaluation for a portion of your inventory (and enable returns evaluation for the rest), choose Disable returns evaluation for select ASINs.
  5. To select ASINs for which you want to disable returns evaluation, upload a csv with one ASIN per line (row). You can select up to 10,000 ASINs in your csv file.
  6. ASINs that are not included in the csv will be enabled for the return's evaluation.
  7. If you want to modify your ASINs later, you must upload all ASINs that you want to disable (instead of just uploading the new ASIN).
  8. Click Update.

Allow up to 24 hours from the date that you disabled your returns evaluation settings before contacting Selling Partner Support.

Returns processing fee

For FBA sellers, returns processing fees apply to customer-returned products in two fashion categories where Amazon offers free return shipping: Clothing and Shoes. While Amazon also offers free return shipping for Eyewear, Handbags, Jewellery, Watches and Luggage, these categories don't incur the returns processing fee. Amazon maintains free returns across all these categories to build customer trust and encourage purchases.

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Hello, I have enrolled my ASIN B09WHS429T in the European expansion accelerator programme last year, which worked successfully and my stock was being sent from my source marketplace (UK). Following this, I had some stock sent directly to France, as this market did well.

Now that my inventory in France has run out (new stock coming in 2 months!) I want to revert to EEA and sell my UK stock. I filed a case about this before running out of inventory and was told the transition would be seamless, but it’s not.. I’ve changed the “source” market to the UK (from France) as per one case worker’s advice, but beyond this not taken any steps.

Please note I do not have a French VAT number (I do not go above the required threshold for this), and was successful with EEA before.)

The caseworkers are now investigating it for many days, and keep going around in circles, so I want to file a case here to see if one of your experts can help please! I was making sales every day in France so am now losing revenue, and I worry these new customers can’t order my tea anymore.

CASE ID: 10846342702

ASIN: B09WHS429T

SKU: 5070000672601

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Is anyone else shipping B2B to the EU?

I'm getting regular issues with the parcels being stopped at customs and a request coming back for the customer's EORI number.

I'm shipping using our own UK + EU EORI but the request is specifically for the customer's EORI, they do not accept our own.

Amazon provides the customers VAT number, which I can find in the invoice on the order AFTER the item has shipped, but never an EORI.

I email the customers to ask but rarely get a reply.. These parcels end up getting returned..

Does anyone have a solution for this?

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How much is Amazon keeping in reserve?
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I am due to start having a reserve soon. I have no idea how much Amazon are going to keep back.

Is there anyone here who is mainly FBA and has a reserve? What kind of percentage turnover are they keeping back?

Thanks

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Hi, @Seller_XUNeUuvrQDpgP @Seller_mIRnuhdx7l5sN @Seller_hnDMgUKxMh1V4

In July, 29 sellable units from one of my shipments were mistakenly marked as defective by Amazon’s system.

This inventory was located in the UK, but the issue seems to have stemmed from a separate case where I requested the sellable units to be marked as defective and so that they can be disposed in Germany Marketplace. Unfortunately, Amazon mistakenly applied this action to my UK inventory on 29th July.

As a result, the 29 sellable units in the UK were liquidated due to my automated unfulfillable settings at the beginning of each month, in the case 2nd August, I cancelled it immediately when I saw this, but the cancellation didn't go through, which led to a significant financial loss.

I have contacted support multiple times, and after investigation, the error was acknowledged as being on Amazon’s end, but the reimbursement requests have been consistently denied, citing various reasons unrelated to the core issue.

I understand Amazon’s policies for defective products, but in this case, the marking of these units as defective was an internal error. Despite numerous communications with support and providing detailed timelines and evidence, I am still hitting a wall with the reimbursement process.

Case ID: 10173980662

Please help! Thanks!

Regards

Joyce

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We placed an MCF order which shows as delivered to a neighbour, with no proof of delivery etc (or even which neighbour).

Receipient has said they haven't received it and none of their neighbours has it. Raised with seller support who told me to provide proof that none of the neighbours have it before they can escalate the issue.

How do Amazon justify us having to deal with this level of stupidity? Any advice on next steps?

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Am I reading this right - Royal Mail are saying you shouldn't use the free thermal labels for RM24 AND rm48, and only use them for tracked and SD services?

I don't have separate printers for different services, I'm not sure how they think this is workable,

I'm calling up to ask how they imagine this working in practice, as I can't figure out how I'd go about my day

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Is this causing issues for any one else and have you found a work around?

Now we are getting a lot of orders that show up as Amazon Business EU SARL , the problem is by them doing this they amazon do not allow you to contact the buyer in case of questions needed to ship the order (we sell made to measure products so you can see how this can cause issue). Not only this but they do not show a phone number either, so you can't add this info to your parcel tracking, so the end user has no tracking notifications leading to more "could not deliver" returns / refunds etc.

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Transit time has changed to 'managed by amazon'
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Hi, On some of my recent orders I had to upgrade shipping as Amazon will not let me choose my normal delivery option because they says I cannot meet the customer delivery promise. These orders are being posted out within the processing time. I have checked my transit time under my shipping template and now under Transit Time it says 'Managed by amazon'. This is new as I would normally write 2-4 days (as I posted via second class)

Does anyone know how to change this so I can edit in my own transit time?

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Hi All.. We send every item first class through Click and drop, a tracking number is automatically uploaded from click and drop on every single order without exception.

Despite this our tracking rate is currently hovering around 60%, presumably this means the posties aren't scanning the items on delivery despite the fact we are paying for this service.

Does anyone else have the same issue or any ideas how to deal with this.?

We are currently considering changing to seller fulfilled prime using Royal Mail tracked 24 but are worried this will impact our prime status if the non-scanning of deliveries continues

Thanks for any input or ideas.

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This is very frustrating, as in my last 10 inbound shipments, more than 140 items have gone missing. Why is there no real support from Amazon? This is very frustrating, especially considering my previous ten inbound shipments. More than 140 units have gone missing, always the same brand and not getting any support whatsoever, not to mention reconciliation for my loss. I endlessly open these cases, which is highly concerning and making me consider quitting. I provided all the relevant and genuine documentation, but without any tangible result, I got an automated reply that I needed to do this again repeatedly. I'm running a small business, so it impacts my day-to-day operation, not to mention losing trust in Amazon. Very disappointing

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