{"id":484471,"date":"2022-04-16T09:46:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T04:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=484471"},"modified":"2022-04-16T10:39:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T05:09:10","slug":"amazon-adds-5-fuel-and-inflation-surcharge-to-third-party-seller-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/amazon-adds-5-fuel-and-inflation-surcharge-to-third-party-seller-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon adds 5% &#8216;fuel and inflation surcharge&#8217; to third-party seller fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is taking a step to offset its rising costs, announcing it will add a 5% fuel and inflation surcharge to fees it charges third-party sellers who use the e-commerce giant&#8217;s fulfillment services.<\/p>\n<p>The Seattle-based company said on its website that the added fees, which take effect April 28, are subject to change and will apply to both apparel and non-apparel items.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon didn&#8217;t immediately respond to a request for further details on the move. But in a notice sent to sellers Wednesday, the company said its costs had gone up since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic due to increases in hourly wages, the hiring of workers and construction of more warehouses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is taking a step to offset its rising costs, announcing it will add a 5% fuel and inflation surcharge to fees it charges third-party sellers who use the e-commerce giant&#8217;s fulfillment services. The Seattle-based company said on its website that the added fees, which take effect April 28, are subject to change and will apply to both apparel and non-apparel items. Amazon didn&#8217;t immediately respond to a request for further details on the move. But in a notice sent to sellers Wednesday, the company said its costs had gone up since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}