Removal Order
Also known as: FBA Removal, Removal Request
A removal order asks Amazon to ship FBA inventory out of a fulfillment center back to you (or a designated address) for a per-unit removal fee.
A removal order pulls units out of FBA and returns them to an address you specify — your warehouse, a prep center, or a liquidator. Sellers use removals to rescue stranded or slow-moving inventory, retrieve units before they accrue more aged-inventory surcharge, recover customer-returned units for inspection/rework, or pull stock for sale through other channels.
Removals carry a per-unit fee based on size and weight (similar in structure to the fulfillment fee). The two sibling exit paths are a disposal order (Amazon destroys the units, usually cheaper) and FBA Liquidation (Amazon bulk-sells them for partial recovery). Amazon can also auto-generate removals when inventory exceeds storage limits or hits aged-inventory thresholds if automated settings are enabled.
Removal is the right choice when the units still have value you can recapture — reselling elsewhere, relabeling, or fixing prep issues — and is worth more than the removal fee plus return shipping. For dead stock with no resale path, disposal or liquidation usually wins the math.
A seller has 150 stranded units from a listing that got suppressed. They place a removal order at about $0.97/unit to ship the inventory back to their warehouse, where they relabel and relist it.