I had a whale tail necklace ended by eBay. It was one bought from Nat Geo's website last year as a gift I did not want. Not my style. Listed it for just over $10. A bargain for "Ivory", right?
eBay ended it and sent me that dreaded policy violation email. Never in all my years have I had that happen. Made me feel sick. Not because of anything else except that I know me - and selling Ivory is against my principles, though I do keep it when it is passed on in a lot - it goes in a special place in my grandmother's jewelry box - I don't ever wear it (I think that that is very bad karma, personally, and my daughter, who especially loves elephants, would turn ME into a piece of jewelry without thinking twice), I don't try to slip it into junk lots, nor do I seek it out.
I went in and anywhere I had the color "ivory" in my listing I dang sure changed it over to "cream"!
Hi Authenticvintage,
Sorry you're going thru this, it's a scarey feeling to open an EBay e-mail violation letter!
It just happened to me too (Friday night) I had a "scrimshaw" pin listed. In the item specifics under material, I put "misc." as I didn't know if it was plastic or some kind of composite-it definately WASN'T ivory.
The listing was pulled and I can't list until Sunday night (3 day suspension.)
The e-mail from EBay stated because I didn't list exactly what the piece was made from I violated the endangered speciecs policy 
I too went in and removed the color "ivory" from a pampered chef caserole I had listed.
I totally freaked thinking what I had done wrong, so I looked at other listings and most people are putting "faux" scrimshaw.
It never dawned on me that it would be an issue, I've sold items like this before with no problem.
Oh well live and learn. I think I'll be a little gun shy from now on listing something that can even be remotely considered ivory!
Pauline
Pauline - That is too funny (the ivory thing and the pampered chef) - wow, yes, it is a sickening feeling! I even took down a sarah coventry bone pendant necklace. I will never list a bone item OR use the color word ivory again, even if I happen to be selling Ivory soap. I'll just call it "white soap that floats" or something. 
Well...they had the nerve to send me a survey after this asking about my "experience" - they will probably send you one also.
It won't surprise me if I get some repurcussion from what I said to them in the comments because it was HONEST.
"Removing an item clearly made of bone, though I understand the precaution involved in it, is overzealous. I can certainly tell the difference between Ivory and bone, but apparently, those doing the policing cannot. It may have been reported by a competitor or picked up by a bot - I have no way to know. It was unsettling. I don't care - it was a $10 item. Had it been IVORY I certainly would expect it to command over $100 and would have listed it at auction, were I the type of seller to do such a thing. Left a bad taste in my mouth because it's obvious that the person overseeing prohibited items has no common sense or experience in illegal Ivory sales. Hire some competent people to do this kind of work. As much as I pay in fees, you can certainly afford to do so. Now - how's that for what my experience was like? Hope you learned something from it."
Then when asked what they could do to improve what else could I say except that contacting me PERSONALLY would have been a good first step as I have been selling under THIS ID for twelve years and have been on ebay period since 1998. They have my phone number, email address, bank account and credit card info, and, if I'm not mistaken, even my SS# from where I became ID VERIFIED many years ago - along with a plethora of CS reps that could stand to educate themselves somewhat by actually seeing what it's like from a seller's side.
UGH - so sorry they gave you a vacation. That is over the top if you ask me, and I would call them until you got someone with some sense who would lift it.
I had looked into buying a domain - but can't afford it. Not that I would use it to sell the "I" word!
Hang in there...
"I just changed the color of a sweater set I had listed as "Ivory " to light cream"
Thank you for the chuckle!
I wonder if they are pulling auctions on the Chinese sellers. They are far more likely to be selling poached ivory, since China is the biggest market for it. They also sell a lot of "ox bone" stuff. Do you think there are more than one species of ox? Maybe sell your cow bone item as "ox bone" and if they STILL object, point out the Chinese sellers. 
