Thread: eBay just dropped my auction due to ivory scales

Bookbinders use folders made of bone; they're called "bone folders." Available at art supply stores and online. They look an awful lot like bone scales. There are also new razors with bone scales. Don't know why they're kicking up trouble on ebay, unless people are in fact sneaking other stuff through under the label.

I'm recycling some old ivory scales into wedges, but not on anything I'll sell. As said above, it's a shame to waste it.

Originally Posted by DFriedl

This makes me wonder - if bone is banned, why are other animal products that involve slaughtering the animal allowed? Like anything made of fur. Or badger brushes?

As long as it's not made from a male animal that was circumsized, you'll be "kosher" with EU member-countries.

Originally Posted by Castel33

This is because the world is backwards and thinks the son should pay for the fathers indulgences. Instead of utilizing and or maintaining a material that has already been harvested while legal at that time. We should abandon all of it and let it rot. Thus making the decimation of those animals even more pointless and worthless. I understand that they are trying to protect those animals that are still living but activist take things to far and are the first to cry foul if someone comes after something they like.

Sorry for the rant getting off the soapbox now

The problem i sprobably that elephant ivory pre-1970 looks exactly like post-1970 ivory.
And 'everyone's' ivory is of course pre-1970. We keep getting more and more pre-1970s ivory every year

I just sold an ivory scaled razor on ebay. As I was listing it, it did give me an auto warning a couple of times so I just changed the wording a little bit and it was fine. I listed them as natural scales that were not bone.

C.V.Heljestrand No 4 (natural scales) - Shave Ready | eBay

Originally Posted by Bruno

The problem i sprobably that elephant ivory pre-1970 looks exactly like post-1970 ivory.
And 'everyone's' ivory is of course pre-1970. We keep getting more and more pre-1970s ivory every year

With cases of Illegal smuggling Ivory can easily be dated as to when the animal was killed.
Sport hunted Tusks can still be legally brought into The U.S today.Yes,elephants hunters still exsist today.
All pre ban legal tusks are stamped with export numbers that can be traced to date and origin.
There are tons of legal Ivory in the world.

http://www.fws.gov/international/DMA...instruments.pd

http://www.fws.gov/international/DMA...nstruments.pdf

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Originally Posted by pixelfixed

With cases of Illegal smuggling Ivory can easily be dated as to when the animal was killed.
Sport hunted Tusks can still be legally brought into The U.S today.Yes,elephants hunters still exsist today.
All pre ban legal tusks are stamped with export numbers that can be traced to date and origin.
There are tons of legal Ivory in the world.

Of course there are. But there are also tons of illegal ivory.
And while ivory can be dated, ebay has no way of knowing whether an 1870s Joseph Rodgers was rescales with illegal ivory or not.
And since they got a lot of negative attention from animals rights activists as well as the official regulatory agencies (presumably) it makes sense that their only option is to just be seens to do their due diligence and remove all ivory.

Originally Posted by Bruno

Of course there are. But there are also tons of illegal ivory.
And while ivory can be dated, ebay has no way of knowing whether an 1870s Joseph Rodgers was rescales with illegal ivory or not.
And since they got a lot of negative attention from animals rights activists as well as the official regulatory agencies (presumably) it makes sense that their only option is to just be seens to do their due diligence and remove all ivory.

agree with what you say 100%

Originally Posted by DFriedl

They are well within their rights. It's just frustrating.

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