Comment Re:Charge on what, exactly (Score 3, Informative) 74
Is this a 3.5% charge on the value of the sale? Or on just the actual shipping charges?
Not quite either; it's on the FBA fees, although shipping is certainly what a chunk of that goes to (as, outbound, it is not assessed separately to sellers). FBA fees depend on the item's dimensions, weight, category, and other factors Amazon decides but are vaguely summarized in Amazon's FBA support docs: https://sellercentral.amazon.c.... FWIW, they claim it represents 17 cents per item on average in another article I saw (couldn't read the Bloomberg one from TFS because paywall).