See whether keeping aged inventory still beats a removal.
Leftover FBA units already cost you the inbound and the goods.
What is still incremental is storage, the aged-inventory surcharge,
and whether they actually sell. The table keeps the same pile, then
compares keeping them, paying to send them back, and paying to
dispose.
Listing, leftover pile, and the surcharge
Keep vs return vs dispose
$—
keeping loses more than disposing
Keep and sell through
Remove (return to you)
Dispose
Expected units sold
Units still sitting
Carrying fees
Sell-through that still ties dispose
Surcharge that still ties dispose
Same leftover pile, three ways to treat it
Path
Cash over horizon
Left sitting
vs keep
Cost of goods and inbound are already spent. The table only adds storage, the surcharge you type, expected sales at the typed sell-through, and the removal fee. Transparent arithmetic from your inputs — not Amazon aged-inventory policy or a removal-order rate card.
A different question: hold until they sell, or remove now?
The table above spreads sell-through over a horizon and charges a flat
per-unit surcharge every leftover month. This second check assumes the
remaining units sell after a typed number of months, and only bills the
aged-inventory surcharge for months after the threshold you type.
Salvage is what you recover if you pull them (liquidation, FBM, or $0).
Hold-until-sale assumptions
Hold vs remove now
$—
hold still beats remove
Hold net (all remaining)
Remove net (all remaining)
Months until remove wins
Aged months in the hold
If they sit
Hold net
Remove net
Hold advantage
What this checks
Sellers search “should I remove aged Amazon inventory” because a
leftover pile looks free next to a new PO. Twenty-nine ninety-nine
list still leaves about $21.34 after referral and the pick fee once
cost is sunk. Eighty units at 5% a month only sell 11.41 of them
in three months. The other 68.59 keep paying storage and the
surcharge.
On the defaults — $29.99, 15% referral, $4.15 pick, $0.87 / cu ft
off-peak storage, 8 × 6 × 2 in, 80 leftover units, 5% monthly
sell-through, $1.50 aged-inventory surcharge, $1.04 return,
$0.32 dispose, 3 months — keeping is −$109.82.
A return removal is −$83.20. Disposing is
−$25.60. Keeping loses $84.22
more than disposing. Carrying fees total $353.33. Keeping needs
about 6.7% monthly sell-through, or a surcharge
at or below about $1.13, to match dispose.
It does not tell you to create a removal order, and it is not tax
or financial advice. Q4 storage is a seasonal rate on the same
cubic foot — not this age surcharge. Restocking versus Amazon’s
low-inventory fee is a quantity question:
Does restocking beat the low-inventory-level fee?
Vine gifts units;
this page prices units that already sit.
Is Amazon Vine worth it?
A 3PL leftover-storage quote is a different warehouse.
FBA Liquidations is the recovery on that same leftover pile:
Amazon pays a percent of list, or you pull the units and sell
them elsewhere.
Should I liquidate aged FBA inventory?
The main
Amazon FBA vs FBM calculator still compares
fulfillment paths and seller plans.
Common questions
Should I remove aged Amazon FBA inventory?
On the calculator defaults ($29.99, 15% referral, $4.15 pick, 80 leftover units, 5% monthly sell-through, $1.50 aged-inventory surcharge) keeping over 3 months is −$109.82. A return removal is −$83.20. Disposing is −$25.60. Keeping loses $84.22 more than disposing. Keeping needs about 6.7% monthly sell-through to match dispose. That is arithmetic on your inputs, not advice to create a removal order.
Does Amazon charge aged inventory surcharge on leftover FBA units?
Amazon can add an aged-inventory surcharge on units that have sat past an age band. The amount is a line on your fee preview, not a published live schedule this page fetches. Type the per-unit monthly surcharge from that preview. Storage still sits on top.
Is disposing leftover FBA cheaper than a return removal?
A dispose order is usually a cheaper per-unit fee because the units do not come back. Cost of goods is already sunk — both paths spend a fee, and only a return gives you the units. Q4 storage is a different question: that is a seasonal rate, not an age surcharge.