I was about to post something about Amazon not honoring the DD+7 as I had found orders that should have been released this week and were DD+10 at this point.
Then on the SC homepage this NSFE post showed up.
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t/ef4b306d-320c-4b2c-a1ac-3159240f1f5c?ref=forums_sc_homepage_ml_ef4b306d-320c-4b2c-a1ac-3159240f1f5c&communicationDeliveryId=81082d0d-5ee3-490d-b5ca-4cf537b50f62
He explains it perfectly and what we all knew was going to happen.
For this disbursement period only 20% of what should be released has actually been released.
The DD+7 is getting ridiculous. I have orders that somehow DD is a 2 week range that were delivered in 3 days. The funds are still held for 21 days despite actual delivery date.
Maybe I’m dumb (I don’t do FBA. I’m 100% FBM and custom made to order at that.),
in the NSFE post why are there 3 “transactions” for the order in question?
The order was for 20 items totaling $678.60
There are (3) separate line items for $169.95 (released 6/12), $475.02 (deferred not released), and $33.93 (released 6/13).
So there were (3) FBA packages?
5 items delivered
14 items still not delivered?
1 item delivered
The question would be, why did Amazon fail to deliver 14 of them?
I don’t know how you guys that do FBA can sleep at night. The risk of allowing Amazon to have your inventory seems too high. Yeah, it is “nice” when it works and seems to be an utter distaster just waiting to happen when it doesn’t.
Show of hands … did anybody here ever believe that the 7 in DD+7 meant seven? Or just believed it was sort of a place-holder meaning keep on waiting.
We all knew it but it is still frustrating to be proven right
We understood that it was DD +7 but Amazon made it sound that it would be released in 7 when it was announced and you looked at the payment page to see that the estimated release date was in 7 days so we thought it would be in 7 days. But when you look at the help pages , you find out that it is held for 7 days after DD before it is released. Held for the full 7 days which means it would actually release no sooner than DD +8 (which it has been for us).
Another thing we have experienced is that Amazon does not pay out after the estimated delivery by date +7 (really +8) as we have all been told it would when a package is delivered late. Every order that has been delivered late (be it a day, 2 days, or 4 days ..etc.) has not been paid until it has been delivered +8. This makes us question if we would be paid at all should a package get lost by the shipping company as Amazon has stated to us as there would be no delivery scan.
Watch out this holiday season when we know shipping carriers loose packages.