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AntiqueSpider.com

Antiques, Fine Art & Collectibles auctions, Online auctions, Government Auctions UK

AntiqueSpider is a family owned and operated business. We are powersellers on The Leading Online Auction Website with more than 2,500 positive feedbacks and a 100% score.

The Leading Online Auction Website's recent ban on mammoth ivory and elephant ivory motivated us to start up AntiqueSpider.

eBay's ban led to a gap in an important market in the art industry. We saw an opportunity to create a new online venue to satisfy demand and quickly formed a small expert team. We developed our own software and are working hard to populate the site with exciting and desirable works of art.

AntiqueSpider is designed to offer buyers and sellers a safe place to trade in LEGAL IVORY, which includes mammoth, hippo tooth, bone and other materials, as well as other categories of art, antiques and collectibles.

Our 10 year experience on eBay has shown that only a very small percentage of their more than 100 million registered users browse the website for Art & Antiques. Furthermore, of those browsers interested in Art & Antiques, an even smaller fraction are looking to make high ticket purchases. Serious buyers have to wade through a myriad of inconsequential items to find something of real value because ‘rubber duckies’ and the like crowd the site.

In addition, eBay’s new policies have made it virtually impossible for fair and honest dealers to conduct a profitable business on their website. When we calculated the actual costs involved with running an eBay store it proved to be an increasingly unprofitable exercise. In conversations with colleagues who have listed on eBay we heard the same complaints.

The Last Straw

We are antique and decorative arts dealers who have been in the business for more than thirty years. We have never broken any laws regarding the sale of ivory. In fact, it is absolutely legal to trade in ivory in the United States if the pieces are pre-ban and not shipped overseas. Mammoth ivory is legal to be sold and shipped worldwide. Bone products hurt no one because the material is gathered from animals that have been slaughtered for food or that have died naturally.

Yet, in their infinite wisdom, eBay prohibited the sale of elephant ivory products on January 1, 2009. Some of us will agree that it was a noble gesture on their part to try and protect this magnificent species but in their zeal to create this new image, eBay saw fit to ban mammoth ivory as well. Mammoth fossil is the remains of a species that became extinct more than 25,000 years ago! In addition, eBay banned hippo tooth and animal bone products as well. eBay removed a legal mammoth ivory item we had listed and a member of their Trust and Safety department told us, "I don't care if it is bone, I say it's ivory." eBay suspended our account for a day and eliminated all of our listings, most of which were porcelains, clocks, bronzes, etc.

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