Well, I FINALLY received my numbers along with everyone else…
While November is down 18.5% from October, December looks to be almost the same as October.
Huh???
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Exactly…
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I’m sick of this nonsense. I have plenty of extra capacity. Might as well send in everything I can and use it. After all, it will sell…eventually 
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Be careful. The Amazon police will give you a ticket for $10 per foot per month…
Go to your max in Oct, you’ll have quite the bill in Nov.
I suppose you could be OK though but I don’t know when they assess these fines but it seems to be daily so on Nov 1st you’ll be paying something until you sell down.
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I don’t plan on sending in more that my estimated November storage. If it eventually decreases and I get dinged, so be it. I’m darned either way…
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Watch there be a big suspension wave right at the end of october so those sellers CAN’T sell down any inventory they just stocked up on.
I look at this and I imagine Amazon’s own inventory doing the inverse. These numbers are a reflection of that and nothing else. I expect percentage change is determined by your primary selling category or a weighted average of your most popular ASINs over a period of time. This tells me that Amazon will load up on grocery in late October through November and sell it down in December through Christmas. The inverse of this pattern mirrors our sales demand through the holidays, but Amazon owns the logistics so they’ll take it for themselves.
By design, I no longer use much of my storage in the US. I have de-emphasized that part of our business over time because of the storage chicanery. I hope the FTC finds use for this in their case; it’s one of the many reasons that a platform owner shouldn’t compete with platform users - they can’t help but preference themselves.
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