[CodeWriter23]

Maybe. My money is on a post about the same time next year where he’s whining about FBA’s Long Term Storage fees catching up with him.

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Its a racket for sure, once your inventory gets stuck in Amazon you either have to continually pay the LT service fee increases, or you must pay for them to "destroy" your inventory.

Hilariously, they "destroy" your inventory by selling it and keeping 100% of the money.

[bootlooped]

You can also have them return the product to you. Of course this costs money.

I don't think that storage fees specifically are a racket. What do you want Amazon to do, store a bunch of non-selling products indefinitely for free?

The lesson is that you shouldn't send a ton of products to FBA unless you have good reason to believe they'll move.

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Racket may be too strong of a word, and no I don't expect Amazon to hold inventory for free. However, charging people to "dispose" of inventory (ie. sell for their own profit) is a bit shady.

[CodeWriter23]

You can. For the full rate a non-Prime customer would pay for shipping. If they happen to have several units in the same place, they'll send them in the same box. My mom asked for about 2 dozen items to be returned, she received about 10 boxes, at about $5 a pop (small merchandise, retailing for $10-$20 each).