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by bootlooped 2754 days ago
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.
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).