I think you are confusing something. The Inventory placement fee is -.30 per unit and that allows you to send your shipment to ONE warehouse. You cannot chose the warehouse, it is defined by the shipping plan.

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decrease the placement fee?

There is no such thing. IN CASE you want to use Inventory placement you have to set your account in this way BEFORE CREATING THE SHIPPING PLAN and the fee is always -.30 per unit. No way to decrease or increase.

Does anyone know if there's an option when creating the shipping plans of sending the shipments to multiple warehouses instead of the one warehouse?

I would really like to know how do we know where to send our shipment. Will there be an option in the shipping plan to ship to multiple different warehouses to save on the inbound placement fee's?? , or does amazon decide this themselves?

I don't see it charging me OR telling me where to ship and how to split my shipments. Am I doing this wrong? Do we still do this through Shipments/Send to Amazon?

The OLD setting to change between '1 center" or "many centers" is under the Gear icon in Seller Central (top right) then choose

Fulfillment by Amazon -> Inbound Settings -> Inventory Placement Options

In theory today, March 1st, that setting will be changing to a new setting that will include 3 options:

1 center (* big fee)

2-3 centers (* smaller fee)

4+ centers (* no fee)

At least that is our understanding... however as of 7:50 AM EST the change has not happened yet.

When I tried it you have to manually split up the inventory into multiple boxes in order to qualify for the reduced fees if all your inventory will fit in one box that is. However, there was not much savings in doing that because of the increased shipping and box cost. You really need to have a shipment that is multiple boxes to begin with in order to benefit from the discounts. Otherwise, just ship it in one box and pay the piper.

I set my inventory settings as such:

I split my shipment into 4 boxes of roughly equal #s (44, 44, 43, 43)

And guess what, no option to pay any less than the upper fee range at $0.21 per unit. All I have the option to do is pay even more on shipping.

This is a joke, but I'm not surprised at all.

I'm not even given the option to not pay fees, and the supposed mid-tier discount on fees for partial split don't even exist.

And yes I made sure to create a brand new workflow **after** I changed my settings to make sure that wasn't a factor.

The cheapest option I have is to stick with a one box shipment, which would have cost only $7.71 before, but now costs $44.25, a 573% increase.

Edit: I'm sure the $14.00 or so I'll save on storage fees each month will go a long way to cover the additional $1,000.00+ in additional shipping fees I will be paying every month from here on out. Thank god for that. (/sarcasm)

THIS IS INSANE! 100 units in one box, shipping is $14.95, placement fee is $230!!! NOT $23, but $230!! This is a Joke Amazon, there is no way we can survive. We won't be able to ship anything until it is fixed.

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THIS IS INSANE! 100 units in one box, shipping is $14.95, placement fee is $230!!! NOT $23, but $230!! This is a Joke Amazon, there is no way we can survive. We won't be able to ship anything until it is fixed.

It will be really something special to watch Amazon justify still charging these fees on inventory lost during receiving, since they already still charge such fees for labeling and prep services even when they lose the entire contents of the box.