What Amazon Rejects at Receiving — and Who Pays for It
The shipment arrived. Then the units went missing, or the fees appeared, or the whole delivery was refused at the door.
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A rejection at receiving is expensive in a particular way: the goods are already in the destination country, already paid for, and now need somewhere to go. The cost almost always lands on you rather than on the factory — unless the purchase order said otherwise before production started.
What actually gets refused
The recurring causes are unglamorous: labels that will not scan, carton weights or dimensions outside limits, box content information missing or not matching, appointment and routing problems on larger deliveries, and units that do not match the listing they were sent against.
Note what is not on that list — product quality. Receiving is not an inspection. Goods can be received cleanly and still be wrong, which is a different failure discovered later and by customers.
Where the cost lands, and how to move it
By default it is yours. The factory delivered what the purchase order described; the fulfilment network refused it for reasons the factory was never contractually told about. Unplanned prep fees, disposal or return costs, and the working capital tied up in stock that cannot be sold all sit on your side of the line.
Therefore, the only place to move it is the purchase order, before production. If prep specification is written into the PO with the labelling requirement attached, a shipment refused for a prep failure becomes a supplier defect rather than your bad luck. That single paragraph is the difference, and it costs nothing to add.
Evidence matters more than argument. Photographs of finished cartons, of the labels actually applied, and of the goods being loaded turn a dispute about what was sent into a dispute about a photograph. Where we handle loading we photograph it as a matter of course, because reconstructing this afterwards is not possible.
Common questions
Only if the specification they breached was written into the order. “Amazon refused it” is not a defect the factory agreed to avoid unless the requirement was communicated as a requirement.
Discrepancies between what you shipped and what is recorded as received do occur and there are reconciliation processes for them. Your position in that process is made almost entirely of your loading evidence and your box content data.
A pre-shipment check confirms the goods and the pack-out match what was agreed, so it catches label and carton failures if those were part of the agreed standard. It will not catch a requirement that nobody wrote down — which is why the purchase order comes first.
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