To anyone on the East Coast who is using 3 center splits (vs. Amazon Optimized)

Have you tested sending to EAST COAST vs. CENTRAL and what is your experience with Central?

Consider:

* Overall price -- same, different?

* Overall speed to get into FBA?

* Better experience with center receiving speeds?

Curious if it's more efficient to send to Central locations for distribution speed?

We continue to try refreshing every few hours to see if the algorithm will provide a different route for our shipment. We ship from northeast and choose Minimal Split: East , however, Amazon forces the shipment to Washington (3200 miles away) and they also want us to pay the shipment split fee (3x the cost of minimal east).

At this point, we either sit on inventory until the FC's allow us to go east coast, or we go FBM (loss) or we split the shipment (huge loss).

I would consider going with the west coast minimal split, but not if I am also covering the shipment split fee. Makes no sense..

Shipment is 2,000 units (3 pallets) LTL Hazmat.

A heads up to all my FBM sellers with multiple warehouses:

My main warehouse, where 90% of my products ship from, is on the east coast. I have partners on the west coast that I use to ship west coast orders, but my default ship from address is my east coast warehouse.

Well, I was processing my orders this morning, and about a dozen orders in I realized that the 'ship from' on all my shipping labels is my west coast partner. I double checked my shipping settings, to confirm that the default ship from was set to the east coast warehouse, and it is, but whenever I buy shipping, the west coast address is automatically selected. So, I have to change it to what should be the default address before buying the label.

Looks like those ever so competent Amazon programmers are at it again, 'fixing' things that aren't broken. Yay!