Amazon auto-reimburses about 52% of what it owes sellers

When Amazon introduced automatic reimbursements, many sellers assumed every owed dollar was covered. Closer audits suggest otherwise: on average only about 52% of eligible reimbursement value is automatically repaid, and the remainder can quietly become lost money.

The unrecovered amounts typically come from familiar leaks: lost inventory, damaged units, customer returns never credited, fee overcharges, losses in AWD transfers, and rejected claims that are never reopened. Individually small, together they add up; many sellers leave $7,400 to $8,400 or more uncollected simply because denied claims are never revisited, and larger operations can miss far more.

Manual checking works but does not scale, which has created a market for professional reimbursement auditing. Firms in the space, including logistics partner Forceget, review accounts for funds sellers are already owed and work on contingency, taking payment only from recovered money. Recoveries of $25,000 to $500,000 a year are cited for sellers with meaningful volume, and the firm is currently offering a free audit plus a $300 bonus for qualifying accounts.