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Re:We turned $140k on Kickstarter into $40k debt and broke even by ikeboy on Monday November 28, 2016 @03:45PM (#13058261)
It costs 50 cents per item to recall, but you sometimes can't send the same item in again for some time.

By the way, based on the rank of the items, it's selling around 50-100 units a month as of now.

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Re:We turned $140k on Kickstarter into $40k debt and broke even by mmastrac on Monday November 28, 2016 @03:52PM (#13058309)
I know zilch about the physical inventory world - is that $.50 something Amazon will charge?
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Re:We turned $140k on Kickstarter into $40k debt and broke even by ikeboy on Monday November 28, 2016 @04:05PM (#13058411)
Yes, Amazon charges 50 cents to recall an item.

Sometimes they offer free recalls (right before q4 when they wanted to clear out their warehouse, for instance), but then you usually can't send the same item in for some time.

They really don't want people using them for long term storage, they've been pushing for people to only send in inventory that will sell soon. That's why they have extra fees if you have something there past 6 months, and again past 12 months.

They also started charging extra for storage during q4 (November and December).

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