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This is not increasing the percentage-based cut (referral fee), this is increasing the fulfillment fee which is size/weight based.

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Thanks! That'd be a lot more reasonable, it just isn't how the article reads. Is the official announcement somewhere?

(I.e. what you're saying seems to be that for a $100 item that they charged $5 to ship previously, they will now be charging $5.25. Hard to complain about that.)

Good question which had me slightly concerned for a moment; there's official documentation of the upcoming change here[0]. It does seem that this is only applied to "fulfilled by Amazon" products (and will not apply to third party sales shipped by the third party), and is an additional 5% of the existing fulfillment fee tacked on.

An example they give is of a small, standard 6-oz package where the fee will increase from $2.92 to $3.07.

[0]https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/GABBX6GZPA...

I think we wouldn't be clicking on this story if the original title reflected this.

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