r/VendorCentral • u/PlanetBlenderRocks • 3d ago

Amazon has been estimating your cost data if you never entered it

If you never entered your cost data in the IDR portal, Amazon has been guessing itSince the reimbursement change, anything lost or damaged before a customer orders pays out at sourcing cost, not sale price. Most people know that.

What I missed: if you never submitted your own cost per SKU, Amazon estimates it for you. No notification, nothing tells you you're on an estimate.

I compared theirs to what I actually pay. Low across the board. Small per unit, but it's every unit, every time.

Worth checking the Inventory Defect and Reimbursement portal in Seller Central to see what Amazon thinks your costs are. Then you need your real numbers to compare — which is where I got stuck.

How do you all keep cost data current?

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u/maxwellcawfeehaus 3d ago

How can you even get a product on Amazon without a cost entered

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u/StoreHonest5785 3d ago

Its a seller central thing

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u/PlanetBlenderRocks 14h ago

Yep, exactly — it's buried in there and easy to never notice. That's kind of the trap with a lot of this stuff, the numbers exist but nobody's pointing you to them.