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Amazon also charges for the disposal itself[1]. Although they're likely not going to receive payment from delinquent accounts, it's something sellers in good standing have to account for.

Amazon charges a monthly storage fee[2]. If your inventory hasn't moved within a year, you'll start getting charged a supplemental long-term storage fee[3] on top of that.

If you want Amazon to ship the inventory back to you, there's a removal fee[4] for that. Or Amazon can get rid of it for you, but there's a disposal fee[1] for that. And the fees for both options are actually the same, the deciding factor is really just whether you want to keep control over it (and have the capacity to receive/store it somewhere) or you want to pay Amazon to take it off your hands entirely (at which point they can do what they want with it).

... thinking about it, I wonder if this is how counterfeits end up working their way into the official "Sold by Amazon" supply chain.

[1] https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/G5FKTA8LXU...

[2] https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/help.html?...

[3] https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/help.html?...