mastodon is considered illegal?

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Lifeisgoood1228

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i have a buck 110 mastodon that I am trying to sell and it is being banned from every site I try to post it on! Seeing that it is beyond old ivory and certainly not harming any elephants period I didn't think this would fall under the ivory laws we have in place now??? What gives?
 
marcinek said:
Its probably legal, but sites see "ivory" and pass on it.

Such is life and they own the sites so they can sell or not sell what they want whatever the law is. You have no "right" to sell your stuff on their site.

Sell it here. Its where you should be selling it anyway.
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Pretty sound advice, I’d say.
 
The problem is not the ethics of using mammoth ivory, but the difficulty in trying to stop elephant poachers and ivory sellers, who often represent illegal elephant ivory as legal mammoth ivory.

The different ivories can be identified, but it's not easy or cheap, especially for small items. Because elephants are being massacred in numbers large enough to push them toward extinction and because so many poachers and sellers can easily evade restrictions on selling elephant ivory by representing it as mammoth ivory, some jurisdictions just ban it all.
 
marcinek said:
Its probably legal, but sites see "ivory" and pass on it.

Such is life and they own the sites so they can sell or not sell what they want whatever the law is. You have no "right" to sell your stuff on their site.

Sell it here. Its where you should be selling it anyway.
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You are right about that! As soon as I posted that I said the same thing! As soon as I get off work I will post, on here, the handful of collectors knives I am selling. Thanks so much for all the responses.
 
Twindog said:
The problem is not the ethics of using mammoth ivory, but the difficulty in trying to stop elephant poachers and ivory sellers, who often represent illegal elephant ivory as legal mammoth ivory.

The different ivories can be identified, but it's not easy or cheap, especially for small items. Because elephants are being massacred in numbers large enough to push them toward extinction and because so many poachers and sellers can easily evade restrictions on selling elephant ivory by representing it as mammoth ivory, some jurisdictions just ban it all.
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This makes sense! Instead of having to evaluate every mammoth knife just ban them all. You can't assume everyone will do the right thing. Thank you for responding
 
Lifeisgoood1228 said:
You are right about that! As soon as I posted that I said the same thing! As soon as I get off work I will post, on here, the handful of collectors knives I am selling. Thanks so much for all the responses.
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Awesome, but you will need to upgrade to at least a Gold membership to sell here.
 
I've seen things like this with watches too, especially selling internationally. Many watch bands are or were made of exotic, protected animals; elephant, seal, sea lion, snake, etc. They can get your watch band and/or watch stopped or seized at borders during shipping.
 
We had a moving company refuse to move our family heirloom piano across state lines due to the ivory-covered keys so it isn't just sites that sell these things that are getting spooked. I won't touch exotic materials any more given all the impending legislation and the general shadiness in the international trade but it sure sucks for all those stuck with perfectly respectable items that are suddenly too hot to touch.
 
mugwump867 said:
We had a moving company refuse to move our family heirloom piano across state lines due to the ivory-covered keys so it isn't just sites that sell these things that are getting spooked. I won't touch exotic materials any more given all the impending legislation and the general shadiness in the international trade but it sure sucks for all those stuck with perfectly respectable items that are suddenly too hot to touch.
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Yes it certainly does suck! I didn't even think about piano keys being one of the restricted items. Especially when it comes to a moving company when you're not even trying to sell it! That's crazy!
 
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