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In the coming February, in addition to the people across the country happily celebrating the New Year together, Amazon sellers will also have to welcome the new FBA storage fee strategy which will be officially implemented on February 15!

There are quite a lot of updates on FBA fees this time. I have already explained it to you in detail earlier. If you missed it, please click the link below to see how much money you can save. The policies and implementation time of the US, European and Japanese sites are different . Please check as needed.

Sellers on the US site:

FBA policies and fees fully updated!

Sellers in Europe and Japan:

Amazon sellers on these two sites will explode next year!

Although Amazon is about to lower its long-term storage fees, it is still a huge extra expense, and it is difficult to digest the inventory that has paid long-term storage fees, forming a vicious cycle. In order to stop losses in advance, many sellers will directly abandon this batch of goods, sell them at Amazon’s own low prices, or even abandon them directly.

Amazon will destroy abandoned goods in a unified manner. Sellers and Amazon have always maintained such cooperation, but this year there have been unexpected changes in the abandoned goods policy.

Just last week, a French television media reported that Amazon had cleared more than 3 million unsold new items from its French warehouses in the past year.

Because the report was detailed and contained solid evidence of the reporter's undercover investigation, it caused a strong response in France as soon as it was released.

The incident even reached the French government. Brune Poirson, Secretary of State under the French Minister of the Environment, expressed "shock" after the report was broadcast and said he would hold companies "responsible" for such behavior.

She told the media that "in the coming months, parliament will pass a law that will ban such activities. Companies like Amazon will no longer be able to discard still usable products."

French environmental groups condemned the incident, saying that Amazon's use of incineration and landfill to dispose of discarded products would have a catastrophic impact on the environment.

Why would Amazon choose to incinerate and landfill these unsold products instead of giving them away?

because

According to French policies, even given away goods are subject to VAT... For cost considerations, Amazon naturally needs to choose a relatively economical disposal method, which is simple and crude incineration or landfill.

Even after the French government announced that it would soon ban the destruction of goods, Amazon could not choose to give away the sellers' abandoned goods at a high cost, and naturally could not incinerate them in spite of the policy. Therefore, it is very likely that Amazon will choose to directly remove the abandoned goods service.

Judging from the style of European sites, it is not impossible for several other European sites to follow the French site and cancel the disposal function. Sellers on European sites still need to prepare in advance.

Without the disposal function, sellers will need to use liquidation to sell at a low price or find a third-party disposal company to deal with redundant inventory. Sellers who want to know how to deal with slow-moving inventory can add me on WeChat for consultation~