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Amazon Restock Limits 2025

Amazon Restock Limits are BACK in 2025 – Now What?

UPDATE: Amazon has responded with more information. Addendum to this article at the end. Back in 2020/2021, Amazon rapidly released functionality and restrictions around “Restock Limits” and limiting sellers to send in only “Essentials”. Eventually, they loosened up to non-essentials with limits on how many units you can send in. I wrote an article about this in 2021 outlining this.… Read More »Amazon Restock Limits are BACK in 2025 – Now What?

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The Real Hidden Costs of Amazon Placement Fees—And How to Dodge Them

Amazon Placement Fees have been around for years, but in 2025, they became much more of an issue for sellers. Between 2024’s change in inventory distribution and API changes hitting in Late December, many sellers ask “How do I optimize for this new “fee”? While I can’t guarantee 100% of the time you won’t pay placement fees as there are… Read More »The Real Hidden Costs of Amazon Placement Fees—And How to Dodge Them

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Why You Shouldn’t Use 2D Barcodes — and When You Should

In the past year or so, “2D Barcodes” have gotten a lot of hype for a variety of operational reasons. With that said, unfortunately, there is a lot of misinformation on their function, use, benefits, and their disadvantages.  What is a 2D Barcode? A 2D barcode is a barcode that stores data in 2 dimensions — Horizontally and Vertically. Unlike… Read More »Why You Shouldn’t Use 2D Barcodes — and When You Should

Amazon FBA Split Shipments: 5 Ways to Save on Inbound Shipping Costs

Split shipments have always been frustrating for new sellers. Amazon does this for a variety of reasons, but mainly to distribute products across their fulfillment centers better. In this article, I discuss ways you can mitigate split shipments without violating Amazon’s Terms of Service. 1. Use the same labeling type When adding new SKUs to Seller Central you can sometimes… Read More »Amazon FBA Split Shipments: 5 Ways to Save on Inbound Shipping Costs

“Amazon Drip”: 4 Basic Tips for FBA Inbound Limits

in 2020, Amazon implemented “Inbound Limit” restrictions, otherwise known as “COVID Limits” because they arose from COVID-19 disrupting a lot of supply chains. Unfortunately this has caused a lot of logistical issues for Amazon sellers because being able to maintain stock or launch products becomes increasingly difficult. 1. Where to see your limits On the Inventory Planning page, click “Restock… Read More »“Amazon Drip”: 4 Basic Tips for FBA Inbound Limits