Asking @Seller_guPeMXBrBxqyU or other moderators for help with our inventory mishandled by Amazon under Remote Fulfillment with FBA program.
Recently 80 units of our product were disposed of by Amazon CA (removal order B73+Z/nu4P). We opened the Case ID 17425807261 and received a response that these units were stranded in Canada, and were eventually disposed of according to our automatic removal settings (set to Dispose).
This is clearly a mistake made by Amazon:
1. We never shipped anything to Canada, Mexico or Brazil.
2. We never authorized Amazon to send our inventory to Canada, Mexico or Brazil.
3. Amazon violated their own rules by sending our inventory to be stored at Fulfillment Centers outside the US. According to Amazon's policies, "Amazon will use your inventory in US fulfillment centers to fulfill orders across the border directly to customers through Amazon.com services LLC".
4. We do not have a presence in Canada, Mexico or Brazil, otherwise we wouldn't be using Remote Fulfillment with FBA program. Therefore, we don't have an address to return our inventory to.
5. It was Amazon who set the automatic removal settings in Canada, Mexico and Brazil to Dispose, and because we didn't have a valid domestic address in those countries, we couldn't change it to Remove even if we did want to.
6. Amazon never notified us about our inventory to be disposed of in Canada, Mexico or Brazil.
7. Disposed inventory was moved to Canada by Amazon not long before it was actually disposed of.
8. We found more of our products stranded in Canada (144 units), Mexico (158 units) and Brazil (295). Again, we never shipped ourselves, nor authorized Amazon to ship our inventory to fulfillment centers outside the USA.
After we found out about the issue, we stopped participating in Remote Fulfillment with FBA program and deleted all listings in Canada, Mexico and Brazil.
Similar issue has been described in another post and it was reviewed by @Seller_guPeMXBrBxqyU.