Sellers who broke through the shipping restrictions were forced to cancel their shipments by Amazon, and the warehouse refused to accept them, resulting in heavy losses. Later, some sellers violated the regulations and were deducted tens of thousands of yuan for excessive storage fees, which was not worth the loss. For sellers who violated the rules of the Amazon platform, it can be said to be a fantasy. The platform always has new ways to check and balance.
The sequelae of the warehouse receipt shipment restriction incident began to appear. Sellers with a large number of warehouse receipts were charged sky-high warehouse receipt excess fees due to illegal warehouse entry. According to feedback from Amazon sellers, they have received nearly US$40,000 (approximately RMB 270,000) in excess fees since the beginning of the month. They originally prepared so much goods for PriyDay, but now they can only take them away as soon as possible, and they have almost no confidence to continue.
Sellers are better off shipping cautiously. The high excess fees may not be worth the loss. In this regard, everyone must pay attention to the following points:
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Reasonable inventory configuration.
For those with inventory performance scores below 500 points, expand the warehouse monitoring in the bottom column of the inventory performance page to see the current usage and the warehouse limit for the next stage, and then download the table in the inventory status to view the volume of each product, you can calculate how much warehouse space is left, which products need to be emptied as soon as possible, and how to allocate each product.
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Clean up quickly and reduce costs.
Whether Amazon has collected or is preparing to collect transfer fees, sellers are better off clearing their warehouses in time, avoiding transfer fees or reducing fees through off-site discounts, warehouse transfers, or direct discards. However, it is obvious that if the goods are not on the shelves and cannot be taken out during this period, fees will be charged as required.
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Improve inventory performance scores.
The best way to increase IPI and minimize Amazon logistics costs is to reduce redundant or slow-moving inventory. Sellers should find ways to increase the flow of goods, sales, and the proportion of inventory in FBA inventory to avoid out-of-stock.
There is no absolute shortcut to any method. For many small and medium-sized sellers, although it is simple to “increase sales rate and strengthen stock clearance”, it faces many difficulties in doing so.
These regulations have undoubtedly set new thresholds for the Amazon platform, but the situation of small and medium-sized sellers is becoming more and more difficult. Logistics difficulties, forced out-of-stock, declining inventory performance scores, and declining storage rates are undoubtedly a vicious circle.
Sellers with inventory performance scores below 500 should quickly find ways to improve their scores. In Inventory-Manage Amazon Shipments-Warehouse (bottom left), check whether your inventory is too large, and clear what needs to be cleared or moved.