Thrive 3PL

Thrive 3PL "Thrive 3PL is a comprehensive fulfillment solution for e-commerce sellers of all sizes.

On August 31, the Federal Trade Commission and 22 state attorneys general sued Amazon over the price of advertising on i...
09/12/2026

On August 31, the Federal Trade Commission and 22 state attorneys general sued Amazon over the price of advertising on its own store.

The allegation is that Amazon said one thing and charged another. For years Amazon told advertisers it ran a second-price auction: win the placement, pay one cent more than the next-highest bidder. According to the complaint, Amazon added an undisclosed charge of its own in 2019, called it a "soft reserve price" internally, and let advertisers go on bidding as though the old rule still held. One internal Amazon document called it an "invented auction participant."

Amazon sells the placement, runs the auction, and reports the result. No independent record exists for a seller to check. The obligation to price that auction as described sat with Amazon, and the FTC alleges the company spent seven years manipulating it instead.

To bolster its claims, the FTC asserts that Sponsored Products advertisers paid their own full bid between just 30% and 40% of the time in 2021, 70% of the time in 2022, and roughly 80% of the time by 2024.

More than a million advertisers paid those invoices, over 500,000 of them small and mid-size businesses. None of them could have found this alone. That is the uncomfortable question for any brand concentrated on one channel: how much of your cost base runs on numbers only your marketplace can see?

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For ecommerce sellers, FBA warehouses are the most expensive place to store their merchandise, especially in Q4. Those r...
09/11/2026

For ecommerce sellers, FBA warehouses are the most expensive place to store their merchandise, especially in Q4. Those rates rise every year.

Amazon's aged inventory surcharge now starts at 181 days. At 271 days it climbs from $1.50 to $5.45 per cubic foot on top of the Q4 base rate, which puts nine-month-old standard-size stock at $7.85 per cubic foot per month.

Consider a $25 item carrying $7.50 of gross margin. One shoe box of it, held through the three peak months at that rate, costs $11.77 to store. That is 157% of everything the unit earns when it finally sells.

Hold the inventory at a 3PL instead and drip-feed FBA every week or two. Your cover there stays around 45 to 60 days, which is where storage cost and sales performance balance, and the aged inventory surcharge never starts.

If you are already sitting on stock approaching nine months, file the removal now. Filing does not stop the clock. Amazon releases a removal in batches, and you pay storage on every unit until it physically ships out.
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A manufacturing defect turns up in your latest batch, and every dollar it takes to fix lands on you. The factory made th...
09/10/2026

A manufacturing defect turns up in your latest batch, and every dollar it takes to fix lands on you. The factory made the mistake, but suddenly you are the one paying to sort it out.

The good news is that you can usually claim that money back from your supplier. The claim needs evidence, and your factory will set a high bar on it.

Clearing that bar requires specifics: unit counts, defect categories, and photographs showing the condition the product actually arrived in. The units come back, but the evidence about what was wrong with them does not. Amazon produces none of that documentation for you.

Our team checks every unit against a written standard, categorizes and photographs each defect, and returns a findings file your manufacturer's quality team has to answer. On a factory-defect project, that file can recover more money than the rework itself, which means the inspection you were already funding carries a meaningful share of its own cost.

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Inventory leaves FBA for a long list of reasons, and most of them are ordinary.A defect surfaces weeks after launch, usu...
09/09/2026

Inventory leaves FBA for a long list of reasons, and most of them are ordinary.

A defect surfaces weeks after launch, usually once the reviews start describing it. A factory or supplier change means old and new production should not sell under one listing. Printed inserts need replacing, or one has expired and cannot ship. A compliance mark is wrong across an entire production run. Returned units accumulate as unfulfillable with perfectly good stock mixed in among them. Inventory ages past the point where holding it at Amazon makes sense.

Amazon will send the inventory back; they don't do remediation. Whichever reason put your units into a removal, someone still has to inspect each one against a written standard, correct what can be corrected, and put your good stock back on sale.
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A remediation quote prices the labor. It does not price the months the listing spends closed.A closed listing loses grou...
09/08/2026

A remediation quote prices the labor. It does not price the months the listing spends closed.

A closed listing loses ground every week it is down. Rank slips, review velocity stops, and the competitors who stayed in stock take the demand you built. Winning that position back afterward takes advertising spend—a lot of it—and the cost to relaunch goes up the longer your listing stays down. An inspection quote covers inspection. The advertising it takes to climb back is a separate bill, and it arrives later.

That is the argument for relabeling rather than waiting. Corrected units get a new FNSKU and go back to Amazon under a clean SKU, so something is selling while the affected listing stays shut. Scrapping the lot and reordering fails the same test, because a fresh production run and an ocean crossing keep the ASIN closed longer than a remediation cycle does.

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A removal of a few thousand units has to go somewhere, and for a seller working from home that somewhere is the house.It...
09/07/2026

A removal of a few thousand units has to go somewhere, and for a seller working from home that somewhere is the house.

It starts in the garage. The garage fills, so the next batch goes in the dining room, and after that the living room. A removal does not arrive as one delivery you can clear over a weekend. Amazon releases it in batches across weeks and months, so the boxes keep coming to the front door long after the novelty has worn off, and the rest of the household notices every one of them.

Then the work starts. Every carton has to be opened, every unit checked, the good separated from the bad, and the recovered stock repacked and shipped back in. Family dinners at the table will have to wait until next month.

There is another version of this. The freight goes to a warehouse, gets received on a dock, and gets worked on a bench by people who do this every day. You get your evenings back and your family gets the house back.
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You do not know how many units are in a removal carton until you open it.Your units come back a few cartons at a time, r...
09/06/2026

You do not know how many units are in a removal carton until you open it.

Your units come back a few cartons at a time, repacked by Amazon. Sizes vary, quantities vary, and each one holds a partial count against one much larger number on a single removal order. You also do not know when the next carton is coming, or how long it will be before the final removed unit reaches you.

That leaves you holding one running tally against one total. Sorting it yourself means traveling to wherever the pile is, working through whatever has arrived so far, then going back again when more turns up. A team already standing on the receiving floor opens each carton on arrival and records what was in it, so the number you plan against is a real one rather than an estimate.
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Filing a removal order in Seller Central takes about four minutes. Nothing else in the process moves at that speed.Amazo...
09/05/2026

Filing a removal order in Seller Central takes about four minutes. Nothing else in the process moves at that speed.

Amazon releases a large removal in batches rather than shipping the full quantity at once, on a schedule outside your control, and a substantial removal can trickle back for as long as three months. When a quality issue triggered the removal, your ASIN stays closed for that entire period, and the cartons keep arriving at your door for all of it.

You cannot shorten the three months. You can decide what happens inside them. Processing your batches as they arrive compresses the storage clock, and sends your good units back under a new SKU so that ASIN starts selling again while the affected one stays closed. Waiting for the last carton spends the same three months and sells nothing.

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In the 1990s the driver walked into the store, picked up the boxes you had waiting, reviewed the carbon manifest on his ...
09/04/2026

In the 1990s the driver walked into the store, picked up the boxes you had waiting, reviewed the carbon manifest on his clipboard and signed at the bottom. He kept a copy. You kept a copy. If a parcel went missing, the argument was already settled before it started, because two signatures said he had taken it.

That picture has not been true for a long time.

Today a warehouse loads trailers for half a dozen couriers before the day ends, and no signature is involved anywhere. The driver backs in, the parcels go on, the trailer pulls out.

We get asked for the signed pickup receipt most weeks. It does not exist, and brands new to fulfillment often do not believe us, because they remember the clipboard.

The acknowledgement did not disappear everywhere. Some couriers do scan at pickup as proof of what they collected, which is exactly what the carbon slip did. This is why we send your parcels with them.

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A seller ships every order the same day it arrives. Weeks later the account health page says on-time shipping is below s...
09/03/2026

A seller ships every order the same day it arrives. Weeks later the account health page says on-time shipping is below standard, and the warning threatens selling privileges.

Nothing went wrong in the warehouse. You picked, packed, labeled and handed every order to a driver on the day it came in. The carrier simply did not scan them. Marketplaces measure shipping performance from carrier tracking events, so the clock that decides your rating starts when the carrier's system first acknowledges the parcel, and on ground services that can be hours or days after the truck pulled away.

Amazon and TikTok Shop are both strict here. A run of parcels with no early scan looks like a warehouse that sat on its orders. The platform cannot tell the difference, because the only evidence it has is the carrier's record.

This is a metric you cannot fix by working faster, on an account you cannot afford to lose.

Thrive 3PL moves marketplace volume onto carriers that record the handoff at pickup, so the scan lands while your same-day work is still same-day.

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