| Original Message: A word to the wise eBay seller |
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I'm embarrassed to say I was recently banned for a week for selling ivory on eBay. I thought it was o.k. because the piece was an obviously antique brooch (and I called it antique) that was a carved ivory figure of a Japanese woman in flowing robes. It was certainly late 19th century. It was taken down because it was over 5% ivory. eBay will not allow you to sell anything that is ivory of any kind or age, and if you are dealing with bone you have to specify the species. Even then, they actually have people scanning 'ox bone' listings to weed it out. They are enforcing a 100% no tolerance policy. You will get a warning or two, but third strike you're out! So no more 'faux ivory', it's not going to fly! Just wanted to throw that out there.
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