🤔 Are Your Q4 Storage Fees Too High?

Learn what healthy storage fees look like, how to check yours, and simple moves to avoid Q4 profit leaks.

December 15, 2025

A bunch of OA sellers got a nasty surprise last week.

Storage fees were way higher than they expected.

Here’s what’s going on (and what “normal” should look like).

Q4 storage fee math (in plain English)

In Q4, Amazon makes it more expensive to let stuff sit.

  • Q1–Q3: $0.78 per cubic foot (Jan–Sep)

  • Q4 peak: $2.40 per cubic foot (Oct 15–Jan 14)

That’s 3.5x higher — a 307% increase in what you pay for the same space.

How storage is actually charged

Storage is charged based on the space your units occupy, not just the count.

  • Every month, Amazon charges you on the total cubic feet your inventory takes up.

  • On your Shipments page, look at the little popup at the bottom called Capacity Monitor.

  • Click that to see:
    a. How much space Amazon is giving you

    b. How much you’re currently using

Big, bulky, or slow-moving stuff hurts the most here.

What “healthy” storage fees look like

As a rough benchmark, storage fees as a % of revenue:

  • Q1–Q3: around 0.2% of your revenue

  • Q4: around 0.6%–0.8% of your revenue

If you’re way above that, storage is quietly eating your margin.

To check yours:

  • Look at your total sales revenue for the month.

  • Look at your storage fees for the same month.

  • Compute: storage fees ÷ revenue × 100 = storage %

Run that once for Q1–Q3 and again for Q4.

How you should handle this yearly Q4 storage fee increase:

  1. Bake in Q4 storage fees in your profit calculation from starting late October.

    When evaluating your Q4 buys, don’t just think “what can I sell this for in December?”

    Ask yourself:
    “If 20% of this doesn’t sell by year-end, what do peak storage + January holding costs do to my ROI?”

  2. Clean house in December.

    Monitor your inventory:
    a.) 60-day old listing - the SKU goes into “watch list” mode — check competition and start nudging price down if it’s lagging.
    b.) 90-day old listing - it’s a problem SKU — reprice more aggressively to liquidate instead of paying months of overpriced storage.

    Seller Snap’s Game Theory AI really proves its value when moving stale inventory in December. Because Seller Snap reprices based on competitor behavior (not just price matching), it will:

    ✅ push your price down strategically when movement matters

    ✅ avoid unnecessary undercutting

    ✅ help you exit slow-moving inventory faster when fees spike.

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The leads on our lead lists can help you avoid these Q4 storage fee headaches as it focuses on products in the top 1.5% sales rank in their categories.

That’s the momentum zone – they sell fast, turn quickly, and don’t sit around long enough to rack up peak-season storage charges.

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