eBay "liquidated" my antique blade!

[Sajen]

Originally Posted by adamb

Should buyers also insist that sellers (who barely know what they have their hands on in the first place) have all the wooden components of a Keris dress scientifically investigated on the off chance these elements are made from a species of Southeast Asian timber that is on the CITES list?

I can tell you that ebay had in the past removed a listing of a knife with horn handle because I haven't stated which sort of horn it is! When I now list something with horn I state it's goat horn, water buffalo horn and so on.
Like I said before, it doesn't become simpler to sell or to buy internationally items which are in our interest in the future.
BTW, you should be happy that it was confiscated in the States and not by the Australian customs, the trouble and penalty you would have gotten I don't want to have.