[dwallin]

From an amazon employee reply in the thread:

"When we say “Manufacturing cost”, it means your cost to source a product from a manufacturer/wholesaler/reseller, or produce the item if you are the manufacturer. You can provide the proof of your cost of sourcing and we will reimburse you accordingly. If you do not wish to provide your cost, we will provide our cost estimate and we will reimburse you for it. We calculate our estimate by evaluating the sourcing cost of comparable products sold by Amazon, by other sellers, and through other wholesale channels.

It excludes costs such as shipping, handling, customs duties, or other costs."

You could possibly try setting up your own "reseller" entity, where they act as an in-between, handling the shipping costs, etc and then reselling it to upon arrival for near the price sold?

[scherlock]

That was my first thought. Create an import or manufacturing entity. That entity then sells the product to the retail entity for a markup. It's the retail entity that has the relationship with Amazon and can then show the invoice from the import/manufacturing entity.

[soneil]

Not including actual costs seems nuts. Especially with some of the tariff structures expected in the near future, some of those costs are not insignificant.