Why did I join Brand Registry?

In 2018, I finally took my products to the Amazon marketplace. I knew that hijackers were a major problem in 2016-2017 from the position I had at a company that was also manufacturing and selling on Amazon.

Somehow, by 2019, hijackers were not a problem for me at all. I literally didn’t have a single problem until the late summer of 2023.

At this time, I took what I thought was the necessary steps to register a trademark and join brand registry. Hijackers disappeared at the end of November. I assume they knew they couldn’t handle the holiday volume, but they showed up again on Christmas Day.

When I go through my brand registry dashboard, I am not given any additional securities. It’s still asking for a test buy, and doesn’t seem to acknowledge the problem of other users directly listing under my trademarked brand name.

Will this change when my trademark moves from pending to fully approved? Right now I am just at a loss of why I even bothered with these steps. I work my ace off every day coming up with products, manufacturing, shipping, etc, and I am so sick of getting screwed by overseas accounts that just randomly claim to be selling my items.