FNSKU vs. UPC Labels: The Complete Amazon Seller Guide You send in 500 units. Amazon flags 200 of them for label issues. Now you’re paying $0.15 per unit for Amazon’s labeling service — on top of your FBA fees — because the barcode on the box wasn’t what the system expected. That’s $30 you didn’t … Read more

Amazon & eCommerce Weekly News Roundup — Week 2 A seller called us last Tuesday. She’d just received a stranded inventory notice on 340 units and couldn’t figure out why. Turned out Amazon had updated a listing attribute requirement — quietly, no announcement — and her prep didn’t match the new spec. That’s $1,200 in … Read more

FBA Prep Center vs. Doing It Yourself: Which Makes More Sense in 2026? A seller in Columbus called us last spring after Amazon hit him with $1,847 in unplanned prep fees on a single shipment. He’d been prepping in his garage for two years, thought he had it dialed in. Turned out his poly bags … Read more

How to Choose an FBA Prep Center: 10-Point Checklist for Amazon Sellers A seller came to us after losing $4,200 in a single month — not from bad inventory decisions, but from unplanned prep fees at Amazon’s fulfillment centers. His previous 3PL was missing poly bag requirements on a grocery-adjacent product. Amazon caught it at … Read more

Amazon & eCommerce Weekly News Roundup — Week 13 A seller called us Tuesday. She’d just eaten $1,800 in Amazon unplanned prep fees on a 3,000-unit shipment — all because her supplier skipped poly bagging on items that needed it. Four cents a bag at the source. Fifty-two cents a unit at the FC. That’s … Read more

Case Study: How Ohio Amazon Sellers Cut Prep Costs by 40% with a 3PL A seller out of Columbus was spending $3.80 per unit to prep private label supplements in his garage. Poly bagging, labeling, bundling — he was doing it himself on weekends. When we ran the numbers together, his actual cost including his … Read more

Amazon & eCommerce Weekly News Roundup — Week 12 A seller shipped 2,000 units of a seasonal product last week. Referral fee change kicked in three days before delivery. His margin math was off by 2% across the entire shipment. That’s not a rounding error — that’s real money gone before a single customer clicked … Read more

Private Label vs. Wholesale FBA Prep: What’s Different and Why It Matters You’ve dialed in your sourcing strategy — but your prep process is still built around the wrong model. That’s a costly mistake more Amazon sellers make than you’d think. Private label and wholesale are fundamentally different businesses, and treating their FBA prep requirements … Read more

Amazon FBA Fragile Items: Bubble Wrap, Padding & Full Prep Requirements You’ve sourced the perfect product, shipped it to an Amazon fulfillment center, and then the damage reports start rolling in. Glassware arrives shattered. Ceramic mugs crack in transit. Fragile bundles get rejected at the receiving dock. For experienced Amazon sellers, fragile item prep is … Read more

Amazon & eCommerce Weekly News Roundup — Week 11 If you spent any part of this week chasing updated FBA fee schedules, decoding new listing policy changes, or trying to figure out why your restock limits shifted overnight — you’re not alone. Week 11 brought a wave of platform updates across Amazon and the broader … Read more