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FBA Liquidations: a neat new way to get rid of excess stock
Amazon has a new solution for the problem of stock you can’t sell.
It not only helps you avoid disposal costs and long-term storage fees, but it also sees you recoup up to 20% of your stock’s usual sales price.
It’s called FBA Liquidations, and it’s a neat way to get rid of excess and customer-returned inventory.
How does it work?
Unsold FBA stock would normally be either disposed of or returned to you — both costly options.
Under the FBA Liquidations program, Amazon values your overstock, based on your sales history and your average FBA prices, and finds a buyer among its network of trusted wholesale liquidators.
It then transfers the recovery value of the stock, minus fees, to your seller account — typically 5–10% of the stock’s sale price.
What’s the process for me?
It’s simple: in your inventory pages on Seller Central, you can select single or multiple ASINs and click ‘Create removal order’, then ‘liquidate’.
Once you’ve confirmed it, you can’t cancel the liquidation (though, while it’s still pending, you can still use that stock to fulfil customer orders).
