Amazon is miscalculating FBA reimbursements. They don't understand their own new policy.
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/G200213130
The policy has a Pre-Order valuation, which is the Sourcing Cost.
Then they have a Post-Order valuation, which is your normal sales proceeds (selling price minus standard fees). For Customer Damaged, they reduce this amount, typically by 50%.
However, two recent cases of mine for Customer Damaged returns, they used the wrong calculation, and only gave me 50% of Pre-Order Sourcing-Cost instead of 50% of the Post-Order value.
By definition, a Customer Damaged unit is a Post-Order item. But their system seems broken, and uses the wrong value, and their agents are still unfamiliar with the policy changes.
For the first case (17631693171), the agent finally acknowledged the mistake, and fixed the reimbursement.
For the second case (17638337871), the phone support agent acknowledged the issue, but the "internal team" did not, so they keep rejecting it.
AMAZON, please fix this! It is likely affecting many other sellers (if not all).