← Amazon FBA vs FBM calculator
Sellers search this after Amazon offers FBA Liquidations on a leftover pile. The keep vs remove vs dispose page treats a return as a fee with no resale. This page adds the two recoveries: Amazon pays a percent of list, or you pay the return-removal fee and sell the units on eBay, your site, or a jobber.
On the default 80 leftover $29.99 units, dispose is −$25.60. FBA Liquidations at 8% recovery and a $0.30 fee keeps $167.94. Pulling them and selling elsewhere at $4 leftover keeps $236.80 — $68.86 more than liquidations. Elsewhere leftover can fall to about $3.14 before liquidations match. Keeping at 5% monthly sell-through is −$109.82; it needs about 10.9% a month to match liquidations. At 20% sell-through, keeping flips to $530.94. With no other channel, liquidations still beat dispose by $193.54. A $0.80 fee and 0% recovery flips dispose ahead; recovery then needs about 1.6%.
| Path | Per unit | Pile cash | Leftover units | vs Liquidations |
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Recovery is a percent of list you paste from Amazon’s liquidation estimate. Elsewhere leftover is what you keep after fees and a label if the units come back — $0 if you have no other channel. Cost of goods and inbound are sunk. Complementary to keep vs remove vs dispose (a return with no resale), to Q4 storage (a seasonal rate, not an age surcharge), and to FBA vs FBM on the main calculator. This page does not publish Amazon’s live recoverability table.
The calculator is arithmetic, not advice. It does not recommend creating a liquidation order, a removal, or a dispose order.
On the calculator defaults — 80 leftover $29.99 units, 8% recovery, a $0.30 processing fee, a $1.04 return removal, and $4 leftover if you sell them elsewhere — pulling and selling elsewhere keeps $68.86 more than FBA Liquidations ($236.80 vs $167.94). Dispose is −$25.60. Keeping at 5% monthly sell-through is −$109.82. Elsewhere leftover can fall to about $3.14 before liquidations match. That is arithmetic on your inputs, not advice to create a liquidation order.
Usually, when recovery times list still beats the disposal fee after processing. On these defaults liquidations keep $193.54 more than dispose if you have no other channel. A $0.80 processing fee and 0% recovery flips dispose ahead; recovery then needs about 1.6% of list to match. Paste the recovery percent from Amazon's liquidation estimate.
When monthly sell-through covers storage and the aged-inventory surcharge. On these defaults keeping needs about 10.9% a month to match an 8% liquidation. At 20% sell-through, keeping flips to $530.94 and beats every exit on the table. The keep-vs-remove-vs-dispose page treats a return as a fee with no resale — this page adds the two recoveries.