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What Amazon owes youand won't pay unasked.

How to find FBA inventory lost or damaged in Amazon's warehouses and customer refunds where the item never came back, using four Seller Central reports.

Last updated 9 November 2026

01

What goes missing

Inventory in Amazon's fulfilment centres can be lost or damaged in receiving, storage or transfers. Customers can be refunded for a return that never comes back, or comes back to a different condition. Most are reimbursed automatically. The remainder only gets paid when you open a case.

02

The four reports

From Seller Central, download for the same period:

  • Inventory Ledger (detailed view): every adjustment per FNSKU, including lost, damaged and found units.
  • Reimbursements: what Amazon already paid, per FNSKU and reason, with the amount per unit.
  • FBA Customer Returns: which refunded orders actually came back, and in what condition.
  • Transactions (date range report): refunds per order.

03

Match them

Per FNSKU: units lost or damaged, minus units later found, minus units already reimbursed. What remains is still owed. Value it with Amazon's own reimbursement amount per unit from the same report.

Per order: refunds older than the return window with no matching customer return are candidates for a refund-related reimbursement.

04

Open the cases

Open cases in Seller Central with the FNSKU, the dates and the ledger lines. Amazon has changed its claim windows over time, so check the current rules on Seller Central and start with the oldest items.

05

Or let us check it

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