New effective date for FBA inventory reimbursement policy
The updated Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) inventory reimbursement policy will now go into effect on March 31, 2025, instead of March 10, 2025. We made this change to give you more time to manage your costs through the Manage Your Sourcing Cost page in the Inventory Defect and Reimbursement portal.
Since January, we've been gradually rolling out the Manage Your Sourcing Cost page to ensure a high-quality experience. All sellers will have access to this page by February 28, 2025, giving you time to review and submit your costs before the new policy takes effect.
For more information about the FBA inventory reimbursement policy, go to Changes to program policies.
New effective date for FBA inventory reimbursement policy
The updated Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) inventory reimbursement policy will now go into effect on March 31, 2025, instead of March 10, 2025. We made this change to give you more time to manage your costs through the Manage Your Sourcing Cost page in the Inventory Defect and Reimbursement portal.
Since January, we've been gradually rolling out the Manage Your Sourcing Cost page to ensure a high-quality experience. All sellers will have access to this page by February 28, 2025, giving you time to review and submit your costs before the new policy takes effect.
For more information about the FBA inventory reimbursement policy, go to Changes to program policies.
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Seller_MoLpAkuDzVFmk
this policy is not fair, and it requires sellers to disclose competitive information to Amazon, which can be used by Amazon to compete against sellers.
Seller_uGV19xmGRVdnz
"manage sourcing costs ensure a high-quality experience" if by high-quality you mean absolute horrid experience I would believe you.
For the majority of products you undervalue the costs to an extend which is nothing short of criminal, only to flat our deny the actual costs with no option to prove otherwise.
yet another unscrupulous policy forced down our throats.
Seller_ld3sVBi7pIpk3
I'm not even going to get into the many reasons why this new policy is wrong, and how inaccurate the costing estimates are. I am however going to directly address the ridiculous bulk update feature we're supposed to use for providing accurate costs.
- The "download sourcing cost" file that's created for us is near useless. All it shows are ASIN's/FNSKU's and Amazon's cost estimate. How about providing a download that also includes seller's skus, or item names? Guess what Amazon; most sellers haven't memorized ASIN's! Most downloads from Amazon include a bunch of useless cells, this one I'm sure is intentionally vague. For a store like ours with hundreds of FBA items, this file requires a lot of manipulation to figure out what's what.
- I spent hours getting accurate values for all our ASIN's....Guess what? Amazon wants proof for close to 200 of them. OK, I'll submit my invoices...oh wait, that can't be done in bulk!!!! Are you kidding me? You want me to individually upload invoices for 180 items?!
Amazon's policy reads: "The bulk cost update tool currently doesn’t support document uploads in bulk. If you are required to provide supporting documents for any FNSKU after the bulk cost submission, you must submit them individually through the Manage your sourcing cost page. We are working on a bulk document upload feature to streamline the process further."
So you're giving us a deadline of March 31, 2025 to have costs updated, but you don't have a bulk document upload feature ready yet? Makes about as much sense as this entire policy.
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Seller_z56zmYqo8FoQN
You guys are literal thieves and should go to court
Seller_xJx7vH6fvZFD9
Hopefully, one day Amazon's head office making those terrible policies will remember that this marketplace was built on both the input of sellers and AMZ working together. Not only the shareholders looking for increased profitability of their investment.
Sellers having more and more FBA or selling expenses (low inventory fees, higher storage fees, faster aged inventory fee, inbound placements fees, digital tax fee) and less reimbursements (this policy or refusing reimbursements without reason) isn't the way to go and eventually it will reduce their participation in the marketplace, when margins are too thin.
Amazon dodging it's tax obligation in canadian society and making the sellers pay this digital tax is crazy and unseen before.
