
Amazon’s Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) program can streamline your eCommerce logistics, but not without hidden costs and bottlenecks. One of the biggest pain points for sellers is inbound placement fees and long check-in delays. If you’ve ever paid $2 per unit in “placement fees,” shipped to five different FCs for one ASIN, or watched sellable inventory sit for three weeks in a parking lot, you know how painful FBA inbounds can be.
At MyFBAPrep, we’ve engineered a logistics solution that eliminates these fees while cutting average Amazon check-in times to 24 hours.
Here’s how we do it, and how your business can benefit.
When sellers send inventory to Amazon, the platform often splits shipments across multiple fulfillment centers. This is designed to optimize inventory availability and reduce shipping time to customers, but it creates added costs and complexity for sellers. These extra charges, known as inbound placement fees, can significantly eat into margins, especially for high-volume or multi-SKU sellers.
You can technically avoid these fees by manually splitting your shipments yourself. But without the right infrastructure, this adds operational headaches and potential errors. That’s where a 3PL like MyFBAPrep comes in.
Placement fees aren’t the only issue. Once your goods arrive at an Amazon fulfillment center, there’s often a significant lag before they’re actually checked in and available for sale. During peak times, that check-in process can stretch from several days to even weeks. With their popularity, it’s no surprise that Amazon’s FBA inbound system can get overloaded.
These delays can:
All of this translates into lost revenue and frustrated customers. When you have delays on your FBA inbounds, you’re spending more, selling less, and waiting longer.
From mandatory split shipments to quietly padded placement fees, Amazon’s FBA inbound system is designed to force sellers to absorb costs while Amazon keeps the margin.
Standard Amazon Inbound | What It’s Really Costing You |
Split shipments | 3–5 destinations per PO = inflated freight + operational chaos |
Placement fees | $0.30–$3.00 per unit—ongoing tax on your scale |
Check-in delays | 2–4 weeks or more—Amazon slows you down but doesn’t pay the price |
Dock congestion | Missed appointments, redelivery fees, delayed sell-through |
No control | You’re at the mercy of Amazon’s algorithms |
At MyFBAPrep, we built a system that gives you control, speed, and profit margin back. Now, our partners are skipping placement fees, skipping split shipments, and checking in FBA inventory within 24–48 hours.
Tip: We’re offering a free first shipment to prove it. Contact us and ask about it!
At MyFBAPrep, we’ve developed a nationwide warehouse network and fulfillment infrastructure purpose-built for high-volume Amazon sellers. Our approach to eliminating placement fees and reducing check-in times includes:
By doing the heavy lifting before inventory reaches Amazon, we eliminate the need for Amazon to re-distribute items across its own network, which removes placement fees and speeds up receiving.
You ship once. We handle the rest.
This isn’t a seasonal workaround or a clever trick.
It’s infrastructure—built to scale and designed to perform.
You send your inventory to one MyFBAPrep hub. We consolidate, route, and inject directly into Amazon’s highest-priority FCs.
We’re one of Amazon’s largest inbound freight partners, operating full truckload injections daily into major fulfillment centers across the U.S.
Thanks to priority appointment access, our trucks skip the line. That means your inventory checks in within 24 hours—not 24 days.
When your product goes sellable in 2 days, not 3 weeks, everything compounds:
Even in lanes where our freight may cost slightly more, brands are switching to us because our customers regularly see:
We believe FBA prep should accelerate your growth, not add friction. That’s why we’ve built an operation that gives sellers more control, less complexity, and a better customer experience.
Most sellers treat Q4 like a crisis. We treat it like proof that our system works year-round, at scale.
This isn’t a temporary fix or one-time promo. It’s a repeatable, durable advantage for brands that want to take control of their Amazon ops.
If you’re:
…reach out to us to start your free trial shipment now.