EP420: Amazon's October Storage Preview Predicts Your January Bill

Amazon sent you a storage preview. It looks like an estimate, but it is the exact math for your January bill. Most sellers ignore it, and that mistake costs thousands when peak fees hit. This is not a news recap. It is a warning about dead inventory eating your margins.
I watched a brand I was advising sit on a dead SKU for 300 days. Home goods. Forty thousand a month. Solid. Profitable. But they had one line item that had not moved a unit in ninety days. The October preview showed the cost. They ignored it. January arrived, and the fee structure changed. The damage was done.
Here is what is new and specific. Amazon gives you a storage estimate this month. It is not a guess. It is the system telling you exactly what you will pay. If you do not act on this data, you are paying for air. You are paying for space that could be generating revenue. This episode breaks down the exact math behind the preview and why it matters more than the final invoice.
Three concrete ways your operation improves if you listen. First, you will know how to read the preview so it stops being noise and starts being a decision tool. Second, you will learn the specific units-per-day threshold that flags a SKU for removal before peak season. Third, you will see how to protect your cash flow by clearing dead stock before the fee multiplier hits.
The Voltage 3 is simple. Open Business Reports. Write units per day for the last fourteen days on every SKU this decision touches. Check that every one of those SKUs has a units-per-day number. If any of this hit close to home, you know the feeling. You have a SKU that is sitting there, costing you money, and you keep telling yourself it will move. It will not. Bad data in, bad calls out.
This is The High Voltage Business Builders Podcast. Listen now to stop paying for inventory that is not working for you.
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