Is anyone else seeing the % that Amazon takes per settlement period going up? Amazon fees alone this settlement period were 41.33% taken out. Add in the FBA fees, shipping fees and cost of advertising and we are sitting at at whopping 72.75% taken out. Is this normal for everyone?
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Generally speaking, what percentage of a sale Amazon takes depends on a number of factors, including what your profit margin is. If Amazon fees on an item are 41% of a sale, I would never consider selling the item, at least not at that price. Of course, this varies by industry and the specifics of the items in question.
You said that the percentage Amazon is taking has been going up. What was it before? How much has it changed? How big is the change in terms of actual dollars?
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The % is overall throughout all of my products. We have low cost items with majority under $10. Some of our top selling products are purchased in multiples so that helps offset shipping charges from the one offs. We were between 53-62% for the last year and the last few settlement periods the % has gone up. Actual $ is a few thousand difference over that 20% spread.
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OK, so sounds like you are in the 10% commission bucket. So that’s 10%. How big are these items? If FBA, that makes a big difference. And those fees went up for Q4 (Peak Holiday Surcharge). They will relax on 1-15-26.
How? Sellers are charged the same per item sold. That’s when Amazon wins. Unless you are selling multi-packs that are pre-packaged that way by you. Then, there’s a single FBA fee.
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I was asking more about the change in dollars per item, not account wide. I’m trying to get an idea of how your items are priced. If you costs and fees add up to too high a percentage of the sale cost, raising your price may be the only option.
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All the $9.99 items are the same just a different variation. Why the different fee cost?
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The dimensions are probably different in the system hence the different FBA fees. Click on the fees or the SKU details and see what the breakdown is.
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If the dimensions and weight are correct on the lower fee items, and the others are the same, open a case and start requesting cubiscans to correct those fees. Then you can request a fee reimbursement. We did that once. Worked out perfectly. They will only go so far back though on reimbursement so act quickly if you are sure that they are wrong.
Packaging matters. If whatever this widget is packaged in can get bigger (say, a polybag), this can and will happen. It’s a machine that determines the fee, not a person. If the first sample they checked (they don’t check often) was a shrink bag for example, and the air got into it for some reason, which expanded it - Boom - higher fee….
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We opened a case last week for a rescan and today the fee was changed to match the other items. That saves me $1.50 per item sold and at over 600 sold over the last 90 days that helps out a bit on that one. Now I have to go down the list. Thank you for the recommendation!
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Did you request a reimbursement?
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Yes we did and still waiting on that one.
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Nice… How many listings have this problem? I believe there is a monthly limit on how many Cubicans a seller can request. I don’t know what that number is, but if you have many more to do, I would suggest doing them from best seller to worst.
Good Luck and report back on your progress.
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That is exactly what I am going to do. Thank you for the help. On to the next help post…haha
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The limit is 20 per month. During this time of season, I have to vigilantly watch the fees as sometimes it seems like Amazon’s AI does a hallucination (too much ketamine, I guess).
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