Hi,
Amazon used to offer the free removal order once a year to boost up warehouse space before Q4. Normally I don’t pay attention to this offer, but this year I have items that their sales ground to the halt 
So I need to do a large removal order. Do you know whether Amazon still offer the free removal order this year? If so, what dates? Thanks.
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I haven’t seen this in several years!
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If they were going to offer it, I would think they would have already to try to make space for 4Q items.
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Nothing is free on Amazon anymore. Not even Prime Exclusive Discounts… $50 a pop announced today. Not that big of a deal if you run multiple listings in a deal but nevertheless, yet another money grab.
I don’t remember even seeing anything about this before. So, if that’s true, zero warning and bam - effective today…
Hello,
On August 14, 2024, a fee for Prime Exclusive Discounts will be introduced for US deal events, starting with the Prime Big Deal Days event later this year. Prime Exclusive Discounts that run during non-event days will continue to not be charged a fee.
By leveraging Prime Exclusive Discounts, you can enhance your brand’s visibility and help drive sales of your products with special event badging during high-traffic events such as Prime Day, Prime Big Deal Days, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday.
Each Prime Exclusive Discount promotion that runs during an event and receives special event badging will incur a $50 event fee. The fee does not increase if you include multiple products within the promotion. For example, a Prime Exclusive Discount on 20 products or 100 products would both be charged an event fee of $50.
The fee will be charged after the event period is over and only if the Prime Exclusive Discount made at least one sale during the event. Prime Exclusive Discounts that do not generate at least one sale will not be charged a fee.
When you first begin creating a Prime Exclusive Discount for an event in Seller Central, information will be displayed to identify all incurred event fees. After submission, fee information can be found on the Prime Exclusive Discount’s detail page in Seller Central.
To create a Prime Exclusive Discount, go to Prime Exclusive Discounts.
The Amazon Services team
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They have not been and most likely will not offer this ever again.
Better to bite the bullet and remove it now rather than continue accruing storage fees.
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Another idea is just try to drop the price as far as you can go. I’ve sold probably 30 or my light switch covers at $5 just to get them gone out of fba. I personally have no use for my inventory back, if it hasn’t sold in years I have discontinued the pattern lol. The few sales I get at full price carry the cost of storage but sales overall are declining for me on Amazon.
I’ve sent I think one or two shipments to fba this year. I’m so over all the bull with the Handmade platform and sales are super down (yet super up in my Etsy shop so I know it’s not the economy it’s amazons issue).
I just hope if they shut down handmade they will give us free removals….but I think they are just quiet quitting handmade.
I am realizing that the $100 a month I make from Amazon really isn’t worth the headaches anymore. In the very beginning of handmade 2015 I was pulling in close to $1000 a month.
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If they’re going to shutdown, do you know when?
Thanks for the idea of dropping the price. Frankly I’m tempting but I’ve got burned last time. I had another slow sales item selling at $25. I dropped the price down to $19.99. After a while, Amazon offered to put this item on their “outlet deal” but the price has to be half. So, the new price was $9.99. All 150 units got sold out in 3 days. Wow! Before joining the outlet deal, it only sold about 5 units during the 3 months when the price was at $19.99. I wonder if Amazon purposely hid the listing and keep collecting PPC fee 
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@HumbleWarrior what have you decided to do?
And a reminder of last year’s topic: It's time to do removal orders before expensive Q4 storage fee applies. What's your strategy?
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I can’t believe it now costs $1.04 at a minimum to throw something out at FBA.
We’ve lost patience and lots of $ trying to close down my first business on Amazon so there goes another $1,000 into Amazon’s pocket. Literally can’t give the product away at this point. Pretty shocking considering it was a decent business not too long ago, selling much of the same stuff that my other account does, and for similar prices…
A lot cheaper than renewing the insurance policy for a business we intend to close…
2 more days for my first account and listings will be closed, inventory destroyed, website shut down and then we play the waiting game to see how long it takes to be able to close… Shouldn’t be long for a category that doesn’t allow returns but you know Amazon doesn’t think like that… 
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You can close an account by going to amazon.com and closing the buyer account. It also nukes the seller account and everything else associated with it.
All the requirements to close a seller account like no sales in the past 90 days, no inventory, no this and no that are completely bypassed, not much different than the brazil seller support incident that occurred here earlier this year. (You do get 10 days to back out of it, but after that it’s nuked).
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That only deletes your access to it from what I know and believe I’ve seen. It doesn’t close the account.
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Correct. There is a process and I know what it is and intend to follow it.
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I’ve decided to wait a little longer before dropping the price further.
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I wish there were better options for you.
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