Ever since Amazon starting charging fees for accepting deliveries into their fulfillment centres, the time they take to "receive" inventory, making it immediately avaiable for shipment to customers, has blown out and continues to blow out. It now seems common for inventory to wait in receiving for 40+ days before being booked in as received. This is even more infuriating as we continue to receive emails requesting us to replenish inventory. I suggest Amazon get their act together and resource their fulfillment centres appropraitely to allow the efficient receiving of inventory. It appears to be a problem exclusive to the USA as the problem is not occuring in Australia, Singapore or the UK.

I'm facing significant receiving delays with multiple shipments at the OAK3 fulfillment center, and I'd like to know if others are experiencing similar issues.

Current situation:

Shipment 1: Delivered on October 1st, still partially receiving after 20+ days

Shipment 2: Delivered on October 13th, still showing "in transit" status with no receiving started

Third shipment also affected with similar delays

I've contacted Seller Support multiple times but only received generic responses stating they cannot intervene in the receiving process. They provide no specific information about the current warehouse situation or the status of my inventory. These delays are severely impacting my business, especially during this crucial pre-holiday season.

Is anyone else experiencing unusual delays at OAK3? Any suggestions for escalating this issue?

Shipment ID:FBA18G4VK9CC

FBA18C96Z6GV

FBA18FCH5XD8

FBA is an abusive program. We are a seasonal brand and rely on timely check-in and processing of inventory during our high-season. We sent in an urgent re-stock which was delivered to GEU5 on December 30. It's now been 10+ days and it's still not been checked in, despite being sent UPS Small Parcel Partner Carrier (about 16 boxes). Besides losing out on potential sales every day this inventory is not available, we are then paying exorbitant storage fees to FBA later when we miss the short window of seasonality and our inventory ends up languishing. It feels like Amazon squeezes us from every angle and I hope that eventually the FTC punishes Amazon for these practices.

I opened a case to complain and of course Seller Support gives a lame and completely unacceptable answer that they expect inventory to be received by March 10.

If there is a moderator here, the case ID is: 16990110011