“Documents viewed by the outlets indicate that Amazon will start imposing a fee on each product that merchants send out themselves.”
Starting October 1st, Seller Fulfilled Prime merchants pay Amazon 2 percent on orders they pack, ship and deliver from their own warehouses. They already meet Prime’s one- to two-day and weekend delivery rules on their own dime. Amazon reopened the program in June as a concession to regulators. Now it is taxing the escape hatch while the FTC prepares an antitrust suit.