Any shipping fee from a new order takes out of available balance.
So funds that should be released, part of available balance, gets reduced by the shipping of new orders.
Say my latest cleared order is $85 and that is my only available balance. If I buy shipping that costs $25 (typical for my large items), my available balance immediately drops to $60. I don’t get the full cleared order $ because the new shipping charge “eats” into it.
This will be a much bigger deal for me in Nov/Dec.
Ah, ok. Understand now. I’m 100% FBA so I didn’t think about shipping fees although I guess those are taken out of my available balance as well. Usually FBA orders are delivered very quickly so my DD+7 should be more like 10 total days if they follow their own rules. The key being following their own rules…
5/14 Settlement day! @Lost_My_Marbles as I expected they did charge my CC for the (2) shipping charges.
Was the 5/14 to be your first Disbursement after being transitioned?
This type of charge wasn’t suppose to happen when you had funds in Deferred Transitions.
We know we have seen this on NSFE as a response from a MOD … will try to find where we saw it.
I really HATE that FBA orders are now on the DD+7 as well.
The change I do like is to request a disbursement at any time. Makes bookkeeping easier at year’s end.
@Picks_by_Nisha is fighting the good fight.
Just remind everyone replying, that the reason Amazon does DD+7 is to accommodate the risk that is the utter clown show of amateur sellers who do things like RA, Drop Shipping from other retailers, grey market trash, etc.
“Don’t get me wrong; I don’t like it. But it’s not the end of the world.” ~ @Picks_by_Nisha 2026
I typed, then deleted, something along the lines of “If this is going to cause your business to fail, you were headed to failure anyway.”
I can understand things being tight; but not being prepared for 2-3 weeks of cash-flow disruption after 6 month notice is a pretty good indication that you don’t know how to handle risk or run a business.
Of course, I still think it sucks…
Ya that angers a lot of people.
For me, it is the fact that our risk metrics are spotless and Amazon should put the cost of that risk on the risky people, and not everyone. I also look at the upside, that some trailer park trash will move on to something else like NeeDoh, instead of selling grey market items on our listings.
I’ll admit, I can see this being the final straw for a business struggling because Amazon won’t let them raise their prices to cover tariffs (or for jewelry people, the 100%+ rise in metal costs). Combine that with $4.50 gas affecting people’s spending. It can be tough even for the good guys.
But it’s not illegal or theft as the thread claims. And really, 6 months notice and you still can’t plan?
Makes me wonder if some of these people set aside funds to pay estimated taxes, or have any sort of backup plan if a storm knocks out their power for a week. Not to mention the thing that hit me; fraud on the credit card hours before Amazon verified, so no payout at all that week (with no notice).
Of couirse, DD+7 affects only those doing well enough to actually be making a bit of a profit, so not going to drive away all of the idiots. 
That’s the “official story”.
The real story is that Billions held in a slush fund generates millions in interest, daily.
Space, even just the edge of space is expensive.
AI and all the data centers needed is expensive.
Yep, a lot of people fail to recognize the value of “float”.
But Berkshire Hathaway, the company that made Warren Buffett one of the richest men in the world (possibly THE richest not in tech or royalty, not sure), is an insurance company that typically pays out about 106% of the money they take in via payments.
But while holding that money, make a LOT more than the 6% it’s costing to borrow it.
And Amazon’s not even paying interest to us…
I do not believe that for even one second.
Greed. Pure, unadulterated greed. That is the whole reason.
When will it occur to Amazon that if they pad our expected delivery dates – push them way out there then they can keep our money just that much longer.
I’ve said it before, moving everyone to DD+7 is just the first step.
Any quarter that they need more $ in the ledger, they could simply change the + and give some supposed reason to make it sound legitimate.
DD+14 to give buyers longer to ponder their return
DD+30 this is a standard term length in business so we’re standardizing
etc.
Every single move is made to find a little more $ to make more $ for shareholders and ensure monumental bonuses for overcompensated executives.
But that would totally kill the phone case people; who order a bunch on terms, thinking that they’ll make a million before the bill comes due.
Amazon executive to everyone:
Though they aren’t going to come to regret saying and acting on it like Peter did.
Amazon could go belly up and they’ll still bank.
While not entirely the reason, it is clearly not a 0$ risk to have a pile of amateur clowns, selling stuff through their platform. Two things can be true at the same time.
Requested payment today 5/26 for the order from the end of April and this one from May 4th.
Looking ahead to plan for being charged shipping since orders will be deferred instead of having it be accounted for in the former account reserve:
Black Friday 11/27
I will ship those custom orders on 12/7 and they will arrive by 12/15
My credit card will be billed for all the shipping sometime in the week of the 14th with closing date on the 21st.
The funds will become available just before Christmas so realistically funds will be in my account (maybe) just before the New Year.
Not going to have the “clean” everything paid to me and paid out to what I owe I like to have each year.
You are correct
Assuming it is DD+7 and not longer, each day makes another $3.6 Million!
You can check my work regarding Sweep Accounts posted here over the weekend.
Do not get me wrong, we can live with it, just another thing amazon has done to kick us in the gut.
Oh what a disaster for Amazon management. I sure hope they’re able to find some sort of write off to offset this completely unexpected windfall and correlated tax liability. Perhaps it will occur to them to just increase compensation packages for their leadership. That should do the trick. 
