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Amazon FBA reimbursement is the money Amazon owes you when it loses or damages your inventory, mishandles a return, or mis-processes an inbound shipment. Two things decide what you actually get in 2026: the valuation rule — inventory lost or damaged before a customer orders it is reimbursed at your product manufacturing (sourcing) cost, not the retail price — and the filing window, which for most case types is 60 calendar days. Miss the window and the money is gone; leave your sourcing cost unset and Amazon values the unit for you with its own estimate. ...

The Amazon IPI score — the Inventory Performance Index — is a 0-to-1,000 number that grades how efficiently you run FBA inventory. Amazon defines it as “a score that measures your Amazon inventory performance over time,” and says the score, which ranges from 0 to 1,000, is largely based on your ability to keep sold and on-hand (fulfillable or sellable) inventory in balance (sell.amazon.com, checked 2026-07-30). Amazon names four component metrics — excess inventory, sell-through, stranded inventory, and in-stock rate — in a long-standing Seller Forums post (checked 2026-07-30); its public pages define only the first three. The score feeds your monthly FBA capacity limit — the cubic footage you may keep in Amazon’s network. ...

Any Amazon Q4 checklist that starts in September starts too late. Three Q4 2026 deadlines are already running as of July 30, and only one is about inventory: deal submissions for both Q4 event blocks opened July 8, 2026; deals submitted for Prime Big Deal Days by August 5 cost $50 less each; and the first inbound cutoff, AWD for Big Deal Days, falls September 2. The nearest gate is six days out, and it is paperwork, not freight — which is why most sellers miss it. ...

Amazon Seller Flex: How It Works, Who Qualifies, and How It Differs From FBA and FBM Amazon Seller Flex is an invite-only fulfillment program in which you keep your inventory in your own warehouse and run the picking and packing yourself, while Amazon’s logistics network handles delivery and the listings stay Prime-eligible. Amazon’s India seller forum describes it as a program that “allows sellers to fulfill orders directly from their own warehouses while still making those products Prime-eligible for Amazon customers.” Third-party fulfillment guides also report a Fulfilled by Amazon tag on Seller Flex listings; Amazon’s own India forum description stops at Prime eligibility. It is documented on Amazon’s India seller channels, it is not something you can sign up for from a menu, and it is not the same thing as Amazon Flex. ...

Amazon 1P means you sell your products to Amazon at wholesale and Amazon resells them; Amazon 3P means you sell through Amazon directly to the shopper and Amazon takes a commission. 1P is run from Vendor Central, 3P from Seller Central. The practical difference comes down to one question: after the handoff, who sets the retail price, owns the stock, and answers the customer? In 1P the answer is Amazon on all three. In 3P it is you. ...

Amazon DSP is Amazon’s demand-side platform — a programmatic ad buying tool that places display, video, audio, and Streaming TV ads at chosen audiences both on Amazon and across third-party sites and apps. It is a separate product from Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands, and for most sellers the decisive difference is the entry barrier: Sponsored Ads have no minimum spend, while Amazon’s own pages put a $50,000 minimum on managed-service Amazon DSP and, for Streaming TV specifically, a $10,000 recommended campaign minimum on self-service DSP packages. ...

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. This does not affect our rankings or conclusions. There is exactly one authoritative way to know whether you are ungated on Amazon: search the product in Add a Product inside your own Seller Central and read the button. Amazon’s help page lists three status indicators — "Not Available": Product can’t be listed; "Sell this product": No approval needed; "Apply to sell": Approval required (Categories and products that require approval, checked 2026-07-29). No third-party tool, list, or article can answer this for you, because gating is resolved against your account, not against the catalog. ...

An Amazon price check is not the number on the product page. It is that number compared against the same ASIN’s own price history — the only way to tell a real discount from a struck-through reference price. Two free browser tools cover almost every case: Keepa and CamelCamelCamel (via its Camelizer extension). Everything beyond them is either a paid data subscription for bulk work or a price-history feature inside a seller suite. ...

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. This does not affect our rankings or conclusions. Before anything else: seller feedback is not a product review. Two separate systems, separate rules, separate removal paths — and confusing them is the most common reason a removal request comes back denied. The short answer on how to remove seller feedback on Amazon: Amazon removes it in only three cases — the comment contains obscene or profane words, it contains seller-specific personally identifiable information, or the entire comment is a product review. Two further cases get a strike-through rather than a deletion. Everything else stays up, and your options are a public reply or a conversation with the buyer. This guide sources every case to Amazon’s own public statements (checked 2026-07-29). ...

The Amazon Account Health Rating (AHR) is a single number Amazon assigns your seller account to express how close it is to deactivation. Amazon describes it as “a snapshot of your account’s risk of deactivation based on compliance with Amazon policies. It’s a color-coded score, ranging from 0 to 1,000…” (sell.amazon.com, checked 2026-08-26). Higher is safer: an account health score of 200 or higher is Healthy, below 200 is At Risk, and below 100 makes the account eligible for deactivation — cut-offs published by Amazon staff on the public Seller Forums, re-verified 2026-08-26. ...

FBA size tiers are measurement categories Amazon assigns to a packaged unit from its unit weight, dimensions, and dimensional weight. Since January 15, 2026, the US store has eight: Small standard-size, Large standard-size, Small Bulky, Large Bulky, and four Extra-Large bands. The tier sets your fulfillment fee, storage rate, removal and disposal fees, and inbound placement fees — which is why a tenth of an inch can move a product between two fee schedules. ...

Two of Amazon’s 2026 sale dates are confirmed and already behind us: the Big Spring Sale ran March 25–31 and Prime Day ran June 23–26, its earliest start since 2021. The two events still ahead — Prime Big Deal Days and Black Friday Week / Cyber Monday — have no announced dates as of July 28, 2026. What Amazon has published is the thing that actually constrains you: the Q4 inbound deadlines, the first of which (AWD for Big Deal Days) falls on September 2, 2026. Plan against the deadlines, not the dates. ...