eBay decided to ban all cross-border ivory sales earlier this month in an effort to create a more legitimate venue for legal ivory sales.
The online auction house eBay Inc. said Tuesday it will ban cross-border trade of ivory products, following a study by a wildlife group that found nine out of 10 of the items sold on the Internet is probably illegal.
The company also will alert traders on its Web site that they may need to prove they are legally allowed to sell their ivory products, spokeswoman Nicola Sharpe said, speaking from San Jose, Calif.
It’s important to try and keep these illegal items off of eBay as much as possible. Of course, eBay has taken a bit more of a proactive stance with this than they usually do with most things. Most other things are left to the governing body to police and then they pull the auctions. I suppose the fact that this is on a more global scale is why they stepped in and got proactive about it.
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