Amazon angered many longtime sellers earlier this year by tacking on two new fees that merchants said complicated their business operations, even for the most sophisticated of them. The furor was so extreme that the Federal Trade Commission contacted sellers about the fees amid the agency's antitrust suit against the tech giant.
But on Thursday, Amazon announced the elimination of another fee ahead of the holiday shopping season that impacted hundreds of thousands of U.S. sellers. The so-called "overage" fee penalized sellers whose inventory in Amazon warehouses exceeded the limit set by the company, either because customer demand had slowed or for other reasons.
