Amazon Referral Fee Audit Service | Correct Category Overcharges
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Stop Losing Profit to Incorrect Amazon Referral Fees
The referral fee is one of the most significant costs for every Amazon seller. This fee is calculated as a percentage of your product's sale price, and the percentage is determined entirely by its category. If your product is misclassified into a category with a higher fee, you are giving Amazon a larger, unnecessary cut of your revenue on every single sale.
Our Reimbursement Service for Incorrect Category Classifications is designed to fix this. We audit your listings, identify these costly errors, and manage the dispute process to claim back your overcharges and correct the category for all future sales.
Key Takeaways
Recover Overcharged Fees: We specialise in securing refunds for referral fees that were overcharged because your product was listed in the wrong, higher-fee category.
Fix Errors for Future Sales: Our service not only reclaims past losses but, crucially, corrects the category classification to increase your net profit on all future sales of the item.
Expert Category Knowledge: We have an in-depth understanding of Amazon's complex product categories and the Browse Tree Guide, allowing us to build effective cases for re-classification.
Protect Your Margins: Incorrect fees are a direct drain on your profitability. We ensure you are paying the correct fee, protecting your margins on every transaction.
Fully Managed Dispute Process: We handle the entire complex process of building a case and communicating with Seller Support, saving you time and administrative headaches.
The Problem: How Category Errors Cost You on Every Sale
Amazon's referral fee percentage can vary dramatically between categories—for example, from 8% in some electronics categories to 20% or more in others. When your product is in the wrong one, the financial impact is immediate and continuous.
This creates persistent problems for your business:
Direct and Constant Revenue Loss: A higher fee percentage means less money in your account from every single transaction. It is a direct reduction of your net revenue.
A Continuous, Compounding Overcharge: This is not a one-off error. It's a persistent penalty on all future sales of that ASIN until it's fixed, allowing small losses to compound into a significant sum.
Complex and Difficult Disputes: Successfully petitioning Amazon to change a product's category is a challenging process. It requires a detailed understanding of their rules and a well-documented case to prove the misclassification to Seller Support.
Our Structured Process for Referral Fee Recovery
We use a precise, evidence-based method to correct your listings and recover your funds.
Comprehensive Fee Audit: We analyse your sales reports and product category listings, comparing them against Amazon's official referral fee schedule to identify potential discrepancies.
Misclassification Identification: We pinpoint any items that have been placed in an incorrect category that carries a higher referral fee than the correct one.
Evidence-Based Claim Submission: We submit a detailed claim to Amazon, building a robust case that often references their own Browse Tree Guide (BTG) to prove the misclassification and justify the change.
Fee Adjustment and Refund Management: We manage the case until the category is corrected. We then work to ensure that the overcharged fees from past sales are calculated correctly and refunded to your account.
Why Choose RT7 for Overcharged Referral Fees?
We have a deep understanding of Amazon’s intricate referral fee structures and complex category classifications. Our precise methodology allows us to find and reclaim these overcharges with a speed and accuracy that is difficult to achieve on your own. We navigate the bureaucracy of Seller Support to protect your profit on every sale, ensuring Amazon adheres to its own category rules.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1. How do products get placed in the wrong category in the first place? This can happen for several reasons.
It may be a simple error during the initial product listing, or Amazon's system might automatically assign a category based on keywords. Occasionally, Amazon merges or updates its category structure, which can also lead to unintended misclassifications.
2. Is correcting the category guaranteed to lower my fee? Our service specifically targets misclassifications
where the incorrect category has a higher referral fee than the correct one. We audit your products to identify these specific opportunities for recovery and will only pursue cases where a correction will result in a lower fee and a potential refund.
3. What happens after you correct the category?
Once the category is successfully corrected, two positive things happen. First, we pursue a refund for the fees you were overcharged on past sales (Amazon's look-back period for this is typically 90 days). Second, and most importantly, all of your future sales for that product will be charged the correct, lower referral fee, increasing your profit margin indefinitely.