@jtorres_ssr as someone who has dealt with MAP on both the manufacturer and authorized reseller side of the equation, here's some info that may be helpful to you, though I know some of it may not be well received around here. 😂
While the VeRO program is not designed to be used to enforce MAP or reseller agreements, it is designed to enforce intellectual property rights.
If you are the legitimate rights holder, with trademarks and other documents to back you up, and these sellers are using your images from your website (instead of taking their own pics of the item) or any other copyright protected IP of yours, then VeRO would be the appropriate way to handle that infringement - and that can have the knock-on effect of making the MAP issues a moot point.
To be clear (before anyone gets out the pitchforks), I'm not advocating for abusing the VeRO program, but if it does apply and you do have IP rights that are being violated, I would encourage you to look into that program.
Secondly, if they are not an authorized reseller but you believe one of your authorized resellers is knowingly selling to them and not following their reseller agreement with you but you don't know who they are getting it from - sometimes doing a test buy can provide some illuminating information...and I'll just leave it at that.
And thirdly, do some googling and research on "triangulation fraud". It's a sophisticated type of fraud that is rampant on eBay - I know, because a company I worked for was hit by it.
https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/Warning-Retail-Arbitrage-Credit-Card-Fraud/td-p/30822324
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/11/how-carders-can-use-ebay-as-a-virtual-atm/
Basically, fraudsters list items for sale on eBay that they do not actually have in their possession, then when they make a sale, they will place an order with a legitimate retailer (often through a direct website or other marketplace) to ship to their eBay buyer - and they pay for that order with a stolen credit card.
The legitimate retailer doesn't know it's fraud, so they ship the item to the unsuspecting eBay buyer and then end up getting a chargeback from the real card holder weeks later - putting them in the position to be out both the money and the product.
The fraudsters in this scenario will often sell for 40-50%+ off regular average retail prices because their cost of goods is effectively $0 (they are selling stolen items) and since they are just "drop shipping" from legitimate retailers, there is often no trail of reseller or MAP agreements to track down.
So if your authorized retailers who do adhere to MAP have their own direct ecommerce websites or sell on any marketplaces, you might want to check with them to see if they've received an influx of odd orders for those items and especially if they've seen an increase in chargebacks.
If you have reason to suspect that kind of fraud may be in play, I'm happy to provide more in-depth info about my experience with it if it would be helpful to you - eBay has known it's a problem on their site for well over a decade but they do very little to proactively stop it and even less to help victims of it when it is perpetrated through their platform.
