1500% increase to ship products to Amazon Warehouse? Really?
I realize that on March 1, 2024 Amazon made some placement fee/policy changes for sellers. But I went from paying less than $10 to ship a 20x20x20, 40 lbs products package to amazon warehouse to now paying $150 to ship the same box, including the new "minimal shipment splits" placement fee. That's 15x more to ship to Amazon! 1500% more! That's just insane. This obviously really kills our margins.
Anyone else struggling with this new fee structure as well? I can't wrap my head around how outrageous this is.
See below, placement fees went from 0 to $123. Carrier cost went from 9.74 to 25.91. Exact same package.
1500% increase to ship products to Amazon Warehouse? Really?
I realize that on March 1, 2024 Amazon made some placement fee/policy changes for sellers. But I went from paying less than $10 to ship a 20x20x20, 40 lbs products package to amazon warehouse to now paying $150 to ship the same box, including the new "minimal shipment splits" placement fee. That's 15x more to ship to Amazon! 1500% more! That's just insane. This obviously really kills our margins.
Anyone else struggling with this new fee structure as well? I can't wrap my head around how outrageous this is.
See below, placement fees went from 0 to $123. Carrier cost went from 9.74 to 25.91. Exact same package.
154 replies
Seller_LVZcgxAgZ2xBv
You are not alone. And it will get worse once Amazons new "low inventory" fees are implemented on April 1.
Since Amazon's FBA fees and Amazon PPC costs are rising, the only realistic solution is to raise prices.
Seller_zHFbZTBw2VSgb
With this change, I am also not seeing the option to use Amazon partnered carriers. Is this happening to anyone else as well? Seller support keeps telling me to try again in 24 hours.
Seller_ph5WE7fZSGImi
I rather to ship myself. They do horrible job shipping our stuff.
Seller_KFAHswHXkuwXa
I want to know why Amazon is doing this? This is too crazy
Seller_GvTxrjwpRZeC8
I would really love to have an Amazon moderator address this issue please?
Seller_Z5ctyFr3TMayu
We're now basically paying extra fees to Amazon for the service they've charged customers for, Prime. Amazon basically trying to increase their bottom line by double dipping on the fees they're charging us and the Prime membership the customers paying. It's absolutely ridiculous.
Seller_DbcsSDaMHenTu
I am not getting placement fees since I split shipment but the shipping cost now is almost 80% higher than before. I will stop using fba and ship myself..
Seller_RgYWPYrMonzKq
Same here. I'm not sure how many more Amazon fees we can absorb and still stay in business.
Have already raised our prices to try and off-set some of the fees. Higher prices will mean lower sales.
Seller_ouo9WDmWKw2sY
Was thinking of utilizing FBA again. Now not so much.
Seller_kPYn2eaKfbniK
But just think, they lowered the fee of standard size items by .20! See, FBA isn't all that bad.
Ive switched to mostly FBA for most stuff. Im not shipping in 1000 items anyways, but i use the 2nd shipping option to get my shipment to the same warehouse ive always used. It ends up being about 10$ more. Im lucky where I can not worry about a charge like that. Seeing people like you have to pay 150$ is absolutely insane, and this isnt the highest ive seen people have to ship now. They are pushing everyone to FBM, and its unfortunate, but at least theres a little more margin.
