Another wave of warehouse restrictions and capacity cuts is coming! Amazon strongly promotes capacity expansion services

In the past two days, some sellers have reported that the upper limit of storage capacity has been cut. Some of them were even sellers whose storage capacity had already been cut in the previous wave of storage capacity adjustment, and they suffered the second cut in a short period of time!

Since the adjustment of storage capacity in October, many sellers have been facing the red storage capacity performance, abandoning or transferring to overseas warehouses, just to avoid being charged excess fees during the peak season. The peak season storage + excess fees in October are really sky-high. Black Friday Cyber ​​Monday is coming soon, and most sellers who want to participate in the event have full inventory at this time, and the goods are difficult to adjust, so they can only wait until after Black Friday Cyber ​​Monday to deal with it.

However, the overage fee is still calculated based on the number of days of storage. If the storage exceeds the limit by one day, the fee will be charged for that day. In addition, there was a calculation bug in the overage fee before. Some sellers reported that their expansion application was approved before the inventory excess occurred. The inventory excess was not shown in the whole process, but they were still charged the overage storage fee. The overage fee was calculated based on the storage capacity standard before applying for the additional inventory. According to internal sources, the expanded inventory capacity and the original inventory capacity may be calculated independently in the background, and the formula for calculating the overage fee only takes into account the original inventory, which resulted in the sky-high overage fee that the seller did not expect.

This bug still occurs sporadically, especially after the storage capacity was cut in October last time. Many sellers have applied for capacity expansion, most of which took effect around this month. Sellers who have applied for storage capacity should pay attention to whether there are unusual deductions and claim compensation in time if they are discovered.

During peak seasons, warehouses are often overwhelmed and capacity is cut, but it is a little hard to understand why Amazon officials are taking the opportunity to vigorously promote capacity expansion and satellite warehouse services. According to the screenshots of the seller who broke the news, it was an email from Amazon's official logistics.

I have told you about satellite warehouses before. They are equivalent to Amazon's official overseas warehouse service. Sellers can use them as a transit station for sending goods to FBA warehouses. The goods stored in satellite warehouses can be stored as much as they want, and are not affected by FBA replenishment restrictions. Now that warehouse capacity has been cut again and again, many sellers have started using satellite warehouses. Regardless of whether the fees are expensive or not, Amazon is in the current situation. On the one hand, it is frantically cutting capacity for FBA inventory, and on the other hand, it is promoting overseas warehouses and expansion services with additional fees. This shows that Amazon actually has storage capacity, but wants to sell it at a higher price. This year's situation has become so serious that Amazon has to use this method to cut leeks.