For brand protection and legal
The account you suspended was never the problem.
A large counterfeit operation does not show up as a large seller. It shows up as a crowd of small accounts, each one too minor to be worth chasing. You take one down. The next is already selling. We map the operation behind the accounts, then work with your team on a plan aimed at it.
The problem
Spread the volume. Stay small. Outlast the takedown.
Counterfeiters, diverters, rogue distributors, and unauthorized sellers all run the same play. Volume spread across many accounts. Each one small enough to read as noise, cheap enough to abandon, fast enough to replace. You suspend a listing and the operation behind it never feels it.
Takedowns work on accounts. They do not work on operations. The accounts share warehouses, supply lines, money, and names. Seen one at a time, they are noise. Seen together, they are a business.
A counterfeit children's car seat bought on a major marketplace shattered in a 30-mph crash test. A pediatrician said a real child would have suffered serious head, neck, and chest injuries. The genuine seat passed.
Source: CNN / University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (2019)
The label on that box belonged to somebody.
32.4 million counterfeit and pirated items were seized at United States borders in fiscal year 2024.
Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection, IPR Seizure Statistics FY2024
Whole picture consulting
First the map. Then the plan.
First, the map
We tie the accounts back to whatever sits behind them. Shared addresses, shared inventory, shared people. You read the evidence yourself and decide what it is worth.
Then, the plan
We sit with your team and build a plan aimed at the operation rather than the accounts. It runs on the whole picture, not one takedown at a time.
What you get
A map of the operation, and a plan aimed at it.
We hand you the evidence itself. You read what we found and draw your own conclusion. That pays off when there is an operation behind the accounts — shared warehouses, shared money, shared people — because that is where a map earns what it costs, and where your plan has something real to aim at. What we hand you is documented seller behavior, captured with a date on every observation, ready for your counsel to use. You see the evidence as we find it, in real time, not in a report at the end.
Start with the watch.
We watch your listings and send you what we see. The watch is free. If a problem is already on your desk, bring it to our team instead.