I think the pandemic and the resulting supply chain issues lasting for 2-3 years cured Amazon of that. Of course, many of us who took the implementation of the IPI seriously are left confused and now trying to navigate the risk of putting a lot more inventory in FBA. For me, if I could handle the similar demand using FBM, I would. Then my risk would reduce. But going from zero to handling 8-900 orders a day just isn’t feasible. Not to mention the FBA fee per unit is at least $1 cheaper than shipping ourselves. I can’t get that kind of deal with the USPS.
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Yup and congrats on your success.
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Thank you. After the first week of January, it will start going down again. Once I get into April - July, I’ll be back down to 30-40 orders a day.
My easy peasy period is May - July. I can take off from this and my other two jobs to catch up on everything I can’t get to the rest of the year. Note: that means the “honey-do” list.
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`Twould appear that you have an easier-peasier “honey-do” list than do I, being able to stretch its length to fulfillment in a particular ¼ of the year.
The USPS may not any longer honor the “Neither Snow nor Rain nor Heat nor Gloom…” credo, but there be some folks I know who do. 
I should clarify: I’m not completely away from business as I do place orders and communicate with sales people. However, it leaves me with a ton of free time to fulfill “the list” that the Mrs. provides.
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I have a bunch of out-of-stock notices on things that I no longer stock FBA. Will that affect my metrics? How to I get Amazon to recognize that these are now FBM? I mean, they know the ASINs are FBM because I am getting the orders as FBM, but FBA inventory says out of stock.
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Have you converted the FBA sku to FBM? That should get rid of it for the most part.
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Huh? I’m selling them as FBM. It still shows out stock in the FBA inventory. Used to be that when I converted, it would disappear from the FBA inventory.
Ok. So you did convert the listings. I don’t know what to tell you other than the Sith lord is trying to woo you back to the dark side.
My mostly seasonal (summer) product had a 100 fold increase in sales the past 4 days, and counting. (It seems it’s gone viral somewhere and I have not been able to determine where yet.) My FBA stock sold out in 2 days, I’m still fulfilling orders FBM; and now the FBA replenish recommendation is way above what will actually be needed when the sales revert to normal for this time of year.
This unexpected growth spurt will be in the 90 day historical days of supply, that 28 day supply prediction will be unrealistic. But by April 1st the short term 30 days of supply prediction should be reasonable. So I assume this increased sales anomaly will not cause pain? -
the low-inventory-level fee will apply when both the long-term historical days of supply (last 90 days) and short-term historical days of supply (last 30 days) are below 28 days (4 weeks).
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Found out it was posted on an Instagram account with 2+ million followers 
I never heard of the ‘influencer’ but I sure do appreciate her! I don’t expect 2 million sales but the unexpected extras I am getting sure are nice.
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Nice - Love this… Congrats
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Thanks! I love it too.
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So if something is out of stock, do we get hit with the fee?
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Congrats!
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I believe if stock falls below their estimated 28 days supply, the fee is charged.
It’s not supposed to start until April 1st.
I have seasonal FBA listings that I close when they reach zero, I reopen them when I restock for the next season. I am wondering if the closed listings will trigger the fee?
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The fee is only assessed when there is inventory. Fee gets applied to every unit sold if inventory is under 28 days at that time (calculated with whatever complicated convoluted formula Amazon has posted in the policy).
If you have no inventory you have no sales. No sales = no fee for not having enough.
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So if I decide not to restock an item, I am going to get hit with fees when selling down remaining inventory, an exit charge. Every day after it falls below the 28 day quantity for every remaining unit.
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That is correct. Perhaps (and this is a guess), if you actually go in and mark the item discontinued maybe it will be fee free and that’s what they should do but knowing the money grubbing scumbags that Amazon are, they probably will charge you.
If they were going to make that “discontinued” concession, we would probably have been told about it. It’s an enhancement they should or may do because that’s really not fair!
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I wonder if it is by FNSKU. Lets say you have different SKU’s for different expiration dates, you would constantly be hit with a low inventory fee despite having plenty of the ASIN in stock all the time.
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