If you sell bladed items - Can Ebay confirm the definition of a bladed item?

[habbymart]

Can an ebay customer service person confirm the definition of bladed items please.  Does it include dressmaker and craft scissors?

This is what I received from ebay

We’re getting in touch to let you know about upcoming changes to the requirements for selling bladed items on ebay.co.uk. We’re expanding buyer age-verification to cover more potentially dangerous items, and to make it easier for you to safely sell and deliver these products.

Add an age-verified delivery option. Choose a delivery service that requires age verification on receipt.

• Correctly package the bladed products, and clearly label the parcel to indicate there are bladed items inside.
• Ensure your packages are delivered to buyers in person, not to parcel lockers or collection points.

[wyntersemporium]

I got the same as sell keyrings one of which is a miniature blunt samurai sword keyring. I’ll be sending through Royal Mail, as it’s just a £4.00 item. 

[ascotscalemodels]

I sell propellers and they have 'blades' but I won't be marking the outside of the package!

[the-nutwood-collection]

I think the email's probably being sent to all sellers.  I sell Merino fibre, fabric and ribbon - and I received it.

Or maybe eBay used the Search function to identify sellers of blades, and my listings came up. 

Typical, you search for 'Zombie Knife' and get offered wool.  Maybe this is why I get no sales.  

[generalstoresonline]

I came on here today to ask the same question after receiving an email from eBay. We sell garden secateurs - are they part of the policy? There seems to be no help here.

[jonat_broad]

Knives and bladed item policy

Scissors would fall under the bladed items you can sell, provided you meet the requirements outlined in the email.

[jonat_broad]

I reckon secateurs would fall under 'Tools such as axes' so would be a bladed item.

[sid.123]

I was going to ask the same question as i had the email this morning to. As far as i can see i don't list any what i would call bladed items. i don't know if SD is different but even if i did under the normal postal options on the listing there isn't an age verification option anyway.

[insidethe93]

Would "palette knives" be included?

Palette knives aren't knives - they have no sharp edges, certainly not the plastic or silicon ones which seems to be the types mainly in use outside painting & decorating.

Palette knives are more like spreaders, or carriers of little bits of a material like paint, and many are made of plastic. You can use an edge to pry up, say, dried paint. They're used in numerous areas, from artwork painting, crafting e.g. papercrafft, resin-craft, wax-melt craft, cooking, painting & decorating etc.

Craft knives are knives but leading reputable brand ones these days are designed to be safe such that you physically can't touch the blade. My favourite (a Cricut) is designed so you can't physically touch a blade even when replacing an old blade - there's a specially-designd mechanism.

What about a lame (spelled with an acute accent over the e)? - a bread dough slicer or scriber which is extremely sharp, often has no sheath or cover. Can come as part of a bread-making kit and either won't be mentioned or somone who doesn't know won't know to associate it with a sharp weapon. The lame that came with a bread-making kit I decided was an accident waiting to happen and you can't just throw it away however well wrapped, so I wrapped it up, labelled it, and put it at the back of a top cupboard where children (or anyone) can't reach; I suppose I'm leaving it to my executors to deal with.

What about a mandoline (not the musical instrument), a kitchen tool which you can still buy without a built-in finger-guard. Notorious for causing severe injuries (as I learned from a newspaper readers' thread about it). My mandoline injury was a deep one and the scar lasted for 25 years. Yet "mandoline" doesn't make you think "blade".

What if I want to buy a DVD of "Bladerunner"?

Would the bot pick up "blade of grass"?

What about "knife pleat" in sewing/crafts?

[jonat_broad]

I can say from experience with the business I work for that part of the AI used to spot listings is checking images for what AI might think is a knife.

We sell files - they got picked up. To be fair, one is called a knife edge file and while its not a knife - I'm not going to argue the toss for something we sell very little of.

Going on the policy I'd say pallette knife, craft knives and lame all might be considered a bladed item.

[insidethe93]

jonat_broad wrote: Going on the policy I'd say pallette knife, craft knives and lame all might be considered a bladed item.

I hope so too, though palette knives that are silicone and maybe plastic ones, should be excluded.

When I bought the bread-making kit that included the lame, the selling platform were enforcing regulations about knives/blades but that kit wasn't covered by it, perhaps they didn't notice. Whereas when I bought a sheath for a swiss army knife, despite being just the sheath (a leather pouch) the delivery courier had to see documentary proof I was over 18. Hopefully people's compliance with them are more intelligent these days?

What about veg choppers, or multi-tools, or butter knives (which are blunt)? For instance, would my food processor fall under the regulations as it has a chopping blade, albeit one that's basically blunt but is made sharp when the machine rotates it but you can't use unless the lid's locked closed so you can't physically touch it. I hope bots used in enforcing regulations will be heavily overseen by people and that there's some common sense used.

[jonat_broad]

I’d refer you to the post above where I posted a link to the blades items policy.

food processors fall under bladed items

[insidethe93]

Thanks!

(Just discovered I'm required to enter 10 or more characters.)

[wyntersemporium]

Apparently two of my keyrings (cutlass  & samurai sword) are under bladed items. Both have that red warning above them. 
I can only sell those to over 19 years upwards .

But they missed out on the samurai necklace, the miniature earrings.