Disposal Order Confusion

This might be normal, but I’ve never seen it (or noticed it) before, so I’m confused.

The other day about 25 of my SKUs went into transfer so they were out of stock. I switched them to FBM while they’re moved around.

Today I have this in my orders:

It’s a whole bunch of SKUs, all Sellable disposition. But it says Disposal? Before I open a case to ask and go through 5 rounds of trying to explain to a bot what is happening - is this normal? TIA!

UPDATE: When I try to open a case and put in the removal order, it says I elected removal of items subject to long-term storage fees. However, these are mostly items that sell frequently so that makes no sense. I also definitely did not set that up, but can assume that Amazon made that decision for me.

UPDATE 2: Found it - it says I changed it to dispose in April 2022, which I have no recollection of doing, obviously. Changed it back - this is quite annoying.

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Replying to myself in case anyone else has this happen. When I turned it off, it says I was automatically opted in by default (because of course I was). Lesson learned - I’m trying to cancel it, but probably too late. Hey, at least my IPI will go up, right? :wink:

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Yup, Settings > Fulfillment by Amazon, and disabling the below will prevent this for anyone looking for the path to check / fix.

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Thank you for confirming - that’s what I changed. Glad I saved the $10 in LTSFs by having 75 items disposed /s

I need to pay better attention to what I’m automagically opted into, apparently.

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There was a notification about this amongst the millions of notifications. Easy to miss and hard to imagine Amazon tossing out their “Partner’s” valuable and very sellable inventory AUTOMATICALLY… So Effed Up.

Sorry you lost some $ here but it could have been worse if the counts were much higher. From what I understand, nobody has been successful cancelling these automatic disposal orders.

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Thank you for the kind response - one of the reasons I love this group. Stupid of me to miss it, but yes it could have been worse!

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Did you able to cancel the dispose order for the remaining 72 units?

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In the past you could cancel removal/disposal orders. They updated it at some point to say that it’s final once it’s placed. It’s worth a shot to try to cancel it, but I wouldn’t count on it.

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I tried, it was too late - as GGX mentions, once it’s placed it’s a done deal.

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If I understood your original post correctly, you didn’t want to remove those 75 units, but “Automated” setting was enabled by mistake and the system just decided it’s time to remove/dispose them, right?

So sorry to hear there is no way to correct that. Really sucks to loos all those inventory and have to pay Amazon the disposing fee. :scream:

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To add insult to injury, if a SKU is removed to avoid LTSF, in some cases they block you from sending more in for 90 days.

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Correct. I would have left them - the LTSF total was about $10. Lame.

What’s weird is for some they didn’t remove all of the SKU, just some. Oh well. .

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It’s probably the qty that would’ve hit LTSF. Remember that even if you shipped all the units at once the “age” can vary based on a lot of factors

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Correct. Even a returned unit is considered new and unaged when LTSFs are calculated.

Good for sellers but shows how stupid Amazon is.

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