Placement Fees and Amazon's Proposed Shipment Plans
How come that although we decided to pay the placement fees to keep shipping FTL, Amazon's proposed shipment is way further than before which increases the cost of freight at least $2000 more that what we usually pay, making the cost of each product even more expensive and making us non competitive on the listing where the buy box is shared. It is unbelievable that having places closer to us to ship the inventory I have to pay the placement fees and triple on freight.
Shouldn't we have the benefit to ship to a closer facility if we are paying for the placement fees?
Placement Fees and Amazon's Proposed Shipment Plans
How come that although we decided to pay the placement fees to keep shipping FTL, Amazon's proposed shipment is way further than before which increases the cost of freight at least $2000 more that what we usually pay, making the cost of each product even more expensive and making us non competitive on the listing where the buy box is shared. It is unbelievable that having places closer to us to ship the inventory I have to pay the placement fees and triple on freight.
Shouldn't we have the benefit to ship to a closer facility if we are paying for the placement fees?
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Seller_0HWFyymdBDrkk
It is a very simple and basic was to AVOID the PLACEMENT FEES. There is not hidden science. It very simple if you send a single sku in less than 4 boxes you will be charged the placement fee. no matter how many boxes you send in and no matter how many are in each box.
Let me explain it this way. If I have 4 sku. A, B,C,D
ONE sku needs to be in 4 boxes just by itself
Box 1 Sku A
Box 2 Sku A
Box 3 Sku A
Box 4 Sku A
_____________NOW ANY OTHER BOXES AND ANY OTHER COMBINATION OF SKU IN THE BOXES will qualify you for the free inbound placement plan. So
Box 5 Sku B, C, D
Box 6 Sku A, D
and so on. the quantity does not matter, so you could send in 4 boxes with 1 item in each box it would qualifty you for the no fee inbound.
Hope that helps.
****One note if your shipping plan like my example has 6 different shipments. You MUST send in all 6 shipments to the location on the label provided. if you say only send to 5 locations because you sent 2 boxes to your favorite FBA warehouse thinking you would be able to beat the sytstem. Think again it will blacklist you and you wont be able to send anywhere for free until you send that missing box to the fba location you skipped
