Originally Posted by
geomick
to paraphrase Indiana Jones "why'd it have to be seal"
I'd hate to win an auction, pay for the item and the shipping charges and have USA customs take it away.
I've heard tons of stories of people shipping seal into the US with no problem. (Personally I won't take the risk.)
The biggest head-scratcher to me are all the Pakistani-made seal sporrans that are sold through Ebay and shipped to US buyers, or sold through any one of numerous US retail shops. (I see piles of seal Pakistani-made sporrans at every tat shop at our local Highland Games.) Of course Pakistani firms violate tons of US clothing laws all the time.
On the flip side, I had a HORSEHAIR sporran I bought on Ebay from a UK seller get seized, not by US Customs, but by Ebay's Global Shipping Program facility in the UK.
Evidently it was part of a far larger scam where persons unknown at the UK Ebay facility labelled parcels bound overseas as "undeliverable" or "forbidden items" then turned around and auctioned the parcels off, pocketing the money.
In my case it was easy to piece together what happened because the guy who bought the "forbidden" horsehair sporran I won put it right back up on Ebay. I communicated with both people and got both sides of the story; neither had a clue they were part of the scam.
Last edited by OC Richard; 9th July 25 at 08:23 PM.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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