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Seller InvestigatorsSeller Investigators Review (2026)

E-commerceResearched assessment · by Daniel HaketUpdated 2026-08-15

E-commerce tooling is ROI-math on margin: every tool must pay for itself in conversion, basket size or saved hours. So where does Seller Investigators actually fit?

The honest bottom line. Worth it for established FBA sellers with enough inventory movement that discrepancies add up and nobody in-house has time to file case-by-case claims — the contingency model means an audit costs you nothing but the access you grant. Skip it once you are a small seller whose monthly discrepancies are modest.

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What Seller Investigators does

Amazon FBA reimbursement recovery on contingency: a free 48-hour audit, then a 25% commission charged only after Amazon deposits recovered funds. No subscription. Ask which cases Amazon would have settled automatically before you sign.

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Seller Investigators, from their own site — for context, not a paid placement.

Pricing (2026)

(2026-08-15, read on their own site) One number, and it is the whole model: a 25% commission, charged only after Amazon has deposited recovered funds in your account. We found it stated twice — on the home page (“only pay a 25% commission fee when your money is back with you”) and again in the FAQ (“no risk or upfront commitment, with a 25% recovery fee only after Amazon deposits recovered funds into your account”). The audit is free, takes 48 hours and carries no obligation. There is no subscription and no /pricing page, because there is nothing else to price. Cases they say they cover include inbound shipment discrepancies, items lost in transit or in the warehouse, items damaged or disposed of by Amazon, unfair reimbursements and customer returns. Plans change — always verify the live price on their site.

The honest knock

Contingency pricing is the honest kind — you pay only out of money that arrived — but 25% of a recovery is not the same as 25% of a profit, and there is one question that decides whether this is worth it for you. Amazon reimburses some categories automatically, and its policies on that have changed more than once. So ask, before you sign: which of these cases would Amazon have settled on its own within the claim window, and what exactly is the 25% charged on — the gross amount recovered, or what is left after Amazon's own fees? A free audit that finds $20,000 sounds decisive until you learn how much of it was already on its way. Ask for the split, in writing, before the audit turns into an engagement.

Best for: established FBA sellers with enough inventory movement that discrepancies add up and nobody in-house has time to file case-by-case claims — the contingency model means an audit costs you nothing but the access you grant.

Seller Investigators vs Carbon6, side by side

Both columns come from the same place: each vendor’s own published pricing, read on the date shown in the sources at the foot of this page. We do not average them into a score.

Seller Investigators
What it costs
One number, and it is the whole model: a 25% commission, charged only after Amazon has deposited recovered funds in your account.
The catch
Contingency pricing is the honest kind — you pay only out of money that arrived — but 25% of a recovery is not the same as 25% of a profit, and there is one question that decides whether this is worth it for you.
Best for
established FBA sellers with enough inventory movement that discrepancies add up and nobody in-house has time to file case-by-case claims — the contingency model means an audit costs you nothing but the access you grant
Carbon6
What it costs
What we can verify on the vendor's own pages today (checked 21 Jul 2026): SoStocked lists ProfitFlow at $97/mo and ProfitFlow + Inventory at "starting at" $250/mo; ScanUnlimited lists a free Limited tier, Unlimited at $720/yr and Unlimited Plus at $1,080/yr.
The catch
The honest headline is no longer pricing — it's ownership.
Best for
suppliers chasing 1P deductions, chargebacks and shortages across Amazon, Walmart, Target and Kroger — the half SPS Commerce deliberately kept, and the only half with a settled owner

The natural comparison is Carbon6 — the comparison worth making, and the two are related — the Seller Investigators partner link runs through Carbon6's own domain. Carbon6 sells a suite of Amazon seller tools on published monthly subscriptions; this is a single contingency service with no subscription at all. If reimbursement recovery is the only job you need done, paying a percentage of what comes back is the cheaper shape; if you want inventory and profit tooling alongside it, the suite is the better buy. Decide by which one fits the job above, not by the louder brand.

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The ex-banker filter — the same yardstick on every review (how we review): My ex-banker filter is simple: does Seller Investigators remove a real cost — time, errors, missed revenue — bigger than what it charges? If the job above is genuinely yours, it's worth a look. We never publish fake or “exclusive” prices, so always confirm the current plan on their site.

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Frequently asked questions

Does Seller Investigators work with my store platform?

Check your platform and version specifically. Shopify support is close to universal in this category, while WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Magento and headless setups vary a lot, and 'supported' sometimes means a generic API rather than a maintained app. A listing in your own platform's app store, with recent reviews there, is a better signal than the vendor's logo wall.

Who should not use Seller Investigators?

Skip it if you are a small seller whose monthly discrepancies are modest, where 25% of a small recovery buys less than the hour it takes to file yourself; also skip it until you have asked what share of the claim Amazon would have paid automatically, because that is the part of the bill that buys you nothing. Buying a tool to fix a problem you don't have yet just adds cost and another login to manage.

Is this a hands-on review of Seller Investigators?

This is a researched assessment, not a hands-on test — where we've used a tool ourselves, we say so explicitly. We name what each tool is genuinely good and bad at, and we earn a commission only if you sign up, at no cost to you.

What this page is based on

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