The brand operated in a fragrance category plagued by unauthorized resellers – third parties buying stock through grey channels and relisting it below the brand’s own price, hijacking the Buy Box on the brand’s own listings.
Because these unauthorized sellers weren’t following the brand’s own compliance standards, their listings repeatedly triggered policy violations that landed on the brand’s account health – flags the brand hadn’t caused but still had to fight.
Caught between a price war it didn’t start and a compliance record it didn’t control, the account’s profitability and stability were both under threat at once.