Fees, Refunds & Returns
Amazon takes money in roughly forty different ways and gives it back grudgingly.
Storage fees. FBA per-unit. Inbound placement. Low-inventory surcharge. Removal. Reimbursement claims. Return processing. The works. Most of the money sellers leave on the table sits in this category, not in PPC.
The library covers what the fees actually are, when Amazon owes you money and how to claim it, the year-end accounting work that makes the whole thing legible to a CPA, and the return-management work that quietly defends your margin.
More on the way: reimbursement audits, the inbound-placement decision, and the settlement-report reading list.
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