I just read the new fee increases for AWD and they are absolutely outrages.

We are talking +20% increases and some even over +30%.

Amazon forced many sellers to move to AWD with the implementation of inbound placement fees. People changed their entire supply chains to move to AWD to now have these massive increases. We don't have the option to use other 3pls which are cheaper and have a better quality of service than AWD because the inbound placement fee is charged if you use another 3pl but exempt if you use AWD.

So Amazon is offering a worse quality and more expensive product and barred all other competition. This is a proper monopoly, remove that inbound placement fee and hardly anyone would use AWD!

I also don't get it, amazon said there was no fee increases and here they are hiking up AWD prices.

Here is a list of the integrated rates compared to the new "Smart Storage Rate"

AWD Storage Fee - $0.36c to $0.43 - 19.44% increase

AWD Processing Fee - $2.13 to $2.70 - 26.76%

AWD Transportation Fee - $0.85 to $1.15 - 35.29%