All 56 checks, published.
Most services in this category advertise a number and stop there. Here is the actual list, by name, so you can judge it — or run it yourself.
Why we publish this
Three reasons, in ascending order of honesty.
It lets you evaluate us properly. "We check 50+ error types" is unfalsifiable. A named list is not.
It lets you check whether your current service is finding these. Take this page to them and ask. If they are missing a whole category — and the fee section is where they usually are — you will know within one email.
And it is only half of what you would want to see. This page is what we check; the sample findings report is what it looks like when the checks come back — SKU by SKU, with the evidence, the expiry clock and the findings we refuse to file.
And frankly, the list is not the moat. Knowing that dimension errors exist is the easy part. Detecting them reliably across a live catalog, documenting them well enough that Amazon pays, filing inside sixty days, appealing the wrong denials, and getting the measurement corrected so it stops — that is the work. We are comfortable showing you the map.
What we check, by category
Every check below is applied to your own account data — the automated engine covers the lost, damaged, return, removal, inbound, fee-tier and storage-volume checks today; the rest are worked by hand from the same reports. Each finding carries the date its claim window closes. Once a finding exists, it is worked every single day until it is paid, refused, or closed.
Inbound shipments — 8 checks
Units leave your warehouse and do not all arrive. This is the leak sellers most often assume Amazon reconciles on its own.
- Units shipped versus units received, per shipment
- Shipments closed while still showing a receiving discrepancy
- Units received against the wrong SKU inside your own catalog
- Units marked lost in transit between your facility and the fulfillment center
- Over-receipts that later reverse and are billed back to you
- Split shipments where only part of the plan was reconciled
- Carrier-damaged units received but never adjusted
- Shipments stuck in receiving well beyond normal processing time
Warehouse inventory — 9 checks
Units that entered a fulfillment center and never came out as a sale, a return, or a documented removal.
- Inventory ledger adjustments with no matching reimbursement
- Units damaged inside the fulfillment center
- Units damaged in transfer between fulfillment centers
- Units disposed of without a disposal instruction from you
- Units disposed of after you requested a removal instead
- Found-inventory reversals applied against earlier reimbursements
- Units lost during an FC transfer and never recovered
- Reimbursements issued in units rather than cash where cash was owed
- Reimbursed units later restocked without the reimbursement reversing correctly
Returns and refunds — 11 checks
The highest-volume leak in most accounts, and the one that looks most normal on a statement.
- Customer refunded, unit never physically returned
- Return window elapsed with no unit received and no reimbursement
- Unit returned unsellable but your account still debited in full
- Refund amount exceeding what the customer actually paid
- The same return processed and refunded twice
- Returns received but never restocked to sellable inventory
- Restocking fees not applied where policy allowed them
- Refunds issued after the eligible return period
- Returnless refunds granted on items above the returnless threshold
- Chargebacks and A-to-z claims overlapping with an ordinary refund
- SAFE-T eligible losses on seller-fulfilled orders
Fee overcharges — 16 checks
Our lead category. These refund at full dollar value and, uncorrected, they recur on every single order.
- Product dimensions on file not matching the actual product
- Unit weight on file not matching the actual product
- Size tier assignment inconsistent with recorded dimensions
- Oversize classification applied to a standard-size unit
- Dimensional weight applied where unit weight should govern
- Fulfillment fee charged at a tier above the recorded measurement
- Referral fee charged at the wrong category rate
- Referral fee calculated on shipping or tax where it should not be
- Low-price FBA rate not applied to eligible units
- Apparel and non-apparel rates applied to the wrong ASINs
- Dangerous goods surcharge applied to non-hazmat units
- Prep and labeling fees charged for units that arrived prepped
- Unplanned prep service fees on compliant shipments
- Fulfillment fees charged on cancelled orders
- Multi-channel fulfillment fees billed at the wrong tier
- Fee changes applied retroactively before their effective date
Storage and surcharges — 7 checks
Billed monthly, rarely audited, and calculated from the same dimension record that causes fee errors.
- Monthly storage billed on incorrect cubic dimensions
- Storage charged on units already lost or disposed of
- Aged inventory surcharge applied to units that had already sold
- Aged inventory surcharge dates inconsistent with the inventory ledger
- Storage utilization surcharge miscalculated against your actual footprint
- Long-term storage fees on inventory scheduled for removal
- Storage billed during a period the units were in transfer
Removals and disposals — 5 checks
You pay to get inventory back, and then it does not come back.
- Removal orders paid for but never delivered
- Removal units delivered short of the quantity requested
- Removal fees billed at the wrong weight tier
- Units disposed of when removal was requested
- Removal orders cancelled by Amazon but still billed
Charges we reduce rather than claim
Everything above is money Amazon owes back. These are charges Amazon applies correctly — and that the right decision, made before the charge is calculated, makes smaller or removes entirely.
- Fulfillment size tier — SKUs sitting just above a dimension or weight boundary, where a packaging change moves every future unit down a band
- Monthly storage — billed on cubic volume, so the same trim that cuts fulfillment cuts storage on every unit-month
- Q4 storage rates — roughly triple October through December; what you send in September decides what you pay in November
- Aged inventory surcharge — steps up in bands by days on hand; triaged before the next step, not after
- Storage utilization surcharge — driven by your footprint against your sell-through
- Inbound placement fees — single versus distributed destinations, modelled against your own freight cost
- Low-inventory-level fee — charged when cover runs thin; a replenishment-timing problem, not a fee problem
- Returns processing fee — applied on categories returning above average; often a sizing-information or listing-accuracy fix
- Prep and labeling — charged per unit when Amazon does work your supplier could have done upstream
- Removal versus holding — the per-SKU crossover where paying to remove beats paying to store
The rules the clock runs on
These are the constraints every finding is worked under. Get any of them wrong and a valid claim pays nothing.
- Every claim type has its own clock, and most are now short. Since Amazon’s late-2024 policy change, most inventory reimbursement claims must be filed within roughly 60 days of the event; fee and storage overcharges run about 90 days from the charge date; and inbound shipment shortages are the long one, claimable once Amazon marks the shipment eligible and until nine months after it was created. Findings are queued by expiry, not by value, because an expired claim is worth exactly zero.
- 60 days to produce cost documentation after filing. Miss it and Amazon substitutes its own estimate, which is reliably lower than your invoice. This is why we collect cost docs before filing, not after.
- Recovery is valued at your manufacturing cost, not sale price. Amazon changed this on 31 March 2025. Services still quoting recovery at sale price are overstating it two to four times. Every figure we show you is cost-based.
- Storage and fulfillment keep separate dimension records. Winning a fulfillment fee correction does not fix the storage record — we have seen items corrected on one and still billed wrong on the other, in both directions. We check and claim them separately.
- Every reimbursement is verified against Amazon's Reimbursements report. Amazon has "granted" reimbursements that restated an existing credit rather than paying new money, and paid credits with no notification at all. A case is not closed until the cash is confirmed.
- Stalled cases get escalated, never abandoned. Amazon's own turnaround standard is ten business days. Past that, we escalate with evidence. We never close a stalled case — the original filing date is what anchors the claim window.
- Measurement-request quotas are respected. Amazon caps remeasurement requests per account per month, and the cap varies by account (the current rate card and tier definitions are published in FBA fulfillment fees and product size tiers) — we record yours at onboarding and queue work against it rather than burning it on low-value tickets.
What this list does not tell you
- Which findings are worth filing. A detected discrepancy is not automatically a payable claim — here is how each one gets ranked.
- Which claims we refuse outright. Confidence scoring and evidence quality decide that, and filing everything is how accounts get a reputation for noise. We publish that side too.
- How close each finding is to expiring. Every one carries a deadline. Working the queue by expiry rather than by value is most of the discipline.
- Whether the underlying cause is fixable. A fee overcharge you refund once is worth far less than the same one corrected at the source. That is the prevention side.
New checks get added as Amazon adds new ways to be wrong. This page is updated when they do.
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