Seller guide
Should I discount, remove, or liquidate aged FBA inventory?
Compare hold, discount, removal, and liquidation with seller-supplied costs before the next inventory-age tier, while keeping every result as a reviewable scenario rather than an account action.
Start with the current age bucket and a dated horizon
Export a current seller-supplied inventory-health view and preserve SKU or FNSKU, units, age bucket, price, unit cost, fulfillment costs, and the date of the snapshot. Choose a review horizon that reaches the next relevant age tier and enter the surcharge assumption that applies to the seller's own account and marketplace. Do not treat an old rate table or a remembered dashboard amount as current. A planning model is only as current as its supplied fee and age inputs.
Model hold with every supplied per-unit cost
A hold scenario starts with expected selling price, then subtracts referral, fulfillment, product, storage, expected aged-inventory surcharge, and other seller-supplied variable costs. Keep future units sold as an explicit assumption, not a forecast manufactured from the age bucket. If the scenario omits returns, advertising, taxes, prep, or an applicable fee, name the omission so the displayed net is not mistaken for complete accounting profit.
Compare discount, removal, and liquidation on one basis
For a discount, reduce price by the supplied percentage and recompute fees and net under the same cost stack. For removal, include the supplied removal fee and any seller-assumed recovery or resale value. For liquidation, use the supplied recovery rate and liquidation fee. Express each result per unit and across the affected units so a small per-unit difference on a large quantity stays visible. Never mix gross recovery in one option with net contribution in another.
Read least loss as a scenario result, not a recommendation
The highest modeled net among four supplied scenarios is the least-loss option under those inputs. It does not know future demand, removal capacity, resale constraints, inventory condition, tax treatment, disposal obligations, or brand strategy. A break-even hold price and discount percentage explain where the supplied math crosses zero; they do not guarantee units will sell at that price or before another fee lands.
Verify the live inventory before taking action
Prioritize SKUs with the largest upcoming supplied surcharge exposure, then confirm units, age, current fees, listing state, stranded status, and available disposition choices in Seller Central. Reconcile any reserved, inbound, unfulfillable, or already ordered units before acting. The comparison does not authorize a removal order, price change, liquidation, listing edit, or account modification; a responsible human reviews and performs every live action.
Tools that help with this
Prices below are exact x402 per-call prices. Human card checkout uses fixed $3, $9, and $29 bundles; follow a tool page to see its applicable bundle.
- FBA Aged Inventory Action Break-Even Planner ($0.50) — Compare four supplied aged-inventory scenarios and rank upcoming surcharge exposure
- FBA Monthly Storage Fee Charge Verifier ($0.50) — Recompute seller-supplied storage charge rows before using them in a scenario
- FBA Stranded Inventory Recovery Queue ($0.50) — Separate urgent stranded units from ordinary aged-inventory planning
Every paid output is a draft for your review before you publish, appeal, or activate anything. Friday does not access your seller account.