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eBay banning all coral sales

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Looks like most live animals are now not allowed.

www.coralmagazine.com

eBay Bans Nearly All Live Animal Sales on Platform - CORAL Magazine

Fish and coral sales on eBay appear to continue "business as usual" at the moment, but a policy change due to take effect in mid-March would effectively shutter one of the largest online marketplaces for small businesses that sell aquarium livestock.
www.coralmagazine.com www.coralmagazine.com

Back in the day eBay was a pretty large marketplace before all the small coral websites showed up. I remember selling a dinner plate sized chalice on there.
 
Sad to hear! I buy coral from there sometimes. There’s some good vendors! Two of them vendors I regularly shop from said they weren’t sent any flags for their posts yet but are expecting it to come. One of the vendors said he did around 50k in coral sales from just eBay so it’s going to affect a lot of people.

I know there’s site like MorphMarket who are expanding their Aquatics section to give those vendors somewhere to move to but it’s not the same.

I know @SupraSaltyReefer mentioned he’s sold clownfish so he got the email about the ban
 
Selling live animals (which would include fish and corals) is supposedly banned on FB groups, but they do all the time. We’ll see if it’s enforced.
 
Darkxerox said:
Looks like most live animals are now not allowed.

www.coralmagazine.com

eBay Bans Nearly All Live Animal Sales on Platform - CORAL Magazine

Fish and coral sales on eBay appear to continue "business as usual" at the moment, but a policy change due to take effect in mid-March would effectively shutter one of the largest online marketplaces for small businesses that sell aquarium livestock.
www.coralmagazine.com www.coralmagazine.com

Back in the day eBay was a pretty large marketplace before all the small coral websites showed up. I remember selling a dinner plate sized chalice on there.
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Wow that sucks, being able to sell corals online seems like a very ethical way to make tank ownership more financially viable for experienced reefers.

I'm guessing they are doing this for insurance reasons like someone gets a zoa and dies or spreads something invasive.
 
Most people don’t realize corals are animals, my guess is that they will slip through. And the article makes it sound like we don’t even know if this is really a new rule or not.
 
Was reading that story while sitting in my little quiet corner of the venue. I was surprised, I thought they had a no live animal rule already, guess they're realizing fish and corals are animals.
 
PjFish said:
My friends nor alota people just do not comprehend live rock! Have to choose my words carefully while in restaurants chatting about cooking rock otherwise get some strange looks Ha
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