I need some clarification on how storage fees apply to inventory that has been auto-replenished from AWD to FBA.

I understand that if at least 70% of my replenished FBA inventory was auto-replenished via AWD, I avoid the FBA aged inventory surcharge (181-365 days) and the low-inventory-level fee. However, my question is:

Once inventory is transferred from AWD to FBA through auto-replenishment, does it follow standard FBA storage rates, or does it retain the AWD discounted storage rate while at FBA? Does the 70% Ratio impact this also?

The reason I ask is that AWD recently auto-replenished six months' worth of inventory for an ASIN, and if this inventory is now subject to full FBA storage rates, it would significantly increase my overall costs to store. I want to be sure I fully understand the financial implications before allowing AWD to auto replenish more inventory on items.

Could you please clarify how storage fees are applied in this scenario?

We label all of our ASINs prior to sending to AWD, and all AWD shipments are marked as no prep required during the shipment workflow. We use AWD auto-replenishment for all ASINs. All of our AWD to FBA auto-replenishment shipments (created automatically by Amazon) also show no labeling or prep required.

For some reason we have one particular ASIN that is always being charged a $0.55 labeling fee when the auto-replenishment is sent from AWD to FBA, even though the units are already labeled and the auto-replenishment shipments are marked no prep required. This has happened with every AWD to FBA auto-replenishment shipment of this particular ASIN, across shipments to multiple FCs. We have opened cases for each instance. One case was quickly resolved and the erroneous fees refunded. The other cases have been stuck with seller support for months - 15152805751, 15328080621, and 15328166591.

We have thousands of additional units of this ASIN at AWD, and I'm worried this issue will persist every time Amazon creates and AWD to FBA auto-replenishment.

We were early adopters of AWD and were assigned an Amazon AWD account manager, who said she could help us with any AWD issues. When we initially reported this issue to her she said we needed to contact seller support. I've since tried to escalate the unresolved issue, but she never responded to our email.

We're stuck at this point. Can someone at Amazon help?

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Earlier, we were using auto-replenishment model from AWD. But it turns out to be the worst decision of our life. Amazon started sending a lot of inventory. Their system is so dumb that they predict your sales would be 2x and send inventory for maybe 3 months, which becomes 6 months of inventory.

But actually there is a 50% decline in sales and it became 12 months of inventory. Thus, you have to pay storage as well as LTSF/AIS.

To move the inventory faster we had to decrease the prices of our ASIN-B08L65Z76F and had to suffer losses. So, requesting you all to never ever use auto replenishment feature of AWD if your inventory is stored there.

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