Quality Sporrans for less money

**OC Richard** · 8th July 25, 08:38 PM

WE Scott seal Evening sporran £5.

The seal has a very nice pattern. The cantle is the "D" style.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/37638888848...Bk9SR_qFiNT9ZQ

**RGM1** · 9th July 25, 07:50 AM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

WE Scott seal Evening sporran £5.

The seal has a very nice pattern. The cantle is the "D" style.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/37638888848...Bk9SR_qFiNT9ZQ

If my bid is successful, I will sell off my other sporran of similar material.

**geomick** · 9th July 25, 06:51 PM

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.

**OC Richard** · 9th July 25, 08:18 PM

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.

**MacKenzie** · 10th July 25, 09:10 AM

Originally Posted by geomick

I'd hate to win an auction, pay for the item and the shipping charges and have USA customs take it away.

That's what I was thinking.

**RGM1** · 10th July 25, 09:31 AM

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.

UK Shipping diverted an item I had purchased and I received a full discount.

**OC Richard** · 10th July 25, 02:18 PM

Originally Posted by RGM1

UK Shipping diverted an item I had purchased and I received a full discount.

But did the seller get his item back?

With that scam I mentioned I got a full refund but the seller didn't get anything.

If a seal item gets through the UK side it could still get seized on the US side, by US Customs, in which case the item is destroyed and nobody gets compensated by the US government. I wonder what Ebay would do in that case.

**RGM1** · 11th July 25, 05:01 AM

We will see.if I win the current bid.

**YOJiMBO20** · 11th July 25, 08:47 AM

A few years ago I bought a seal sporran on eBay from the UK and it made it into the US just fine. I think it helped that the seller didn’t indicate that it was seal.