Hi bigchiili,
Apologies for the late reply.
We were at the European Doll Meet 2018 for the weekend, so have been playing catch-up.
In early July we had a visit by The National Crime Agency, who were/are acting under the dictate that any doll at 140cm or under, is now by definition a child sex doll.
So they confiscated 3 dolls that we had under that height, and left us with the rest of them.
They requested that I voluntarily attend an interview with them, at Bromley South police station, which I did.
They mentioned that a 140cm doll had been seized at the border, so hence the enquiries - which was interesting, as it had already cleared EU Customs in Hungary, before heading to the UK. So as to why UK Customs were involved, I do not know.
We had enquired about this doll with the shipper who had said it was missing, and sent another - which went through UK customs without issue.
They asked all sorts of leading questions, but changed their attitude somewhat, when I mentioned that I had requested clarification from both the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice, and had no reply (even after I complained.)
This was in reference to 100-120cm dolls that had been seized by BorderForce, so since then we have not sold them.
We have since then received a reply from both the Home Office and Ministry of Justice (
here) which are completely unhelpful.
So we did ask the NCA while here, if it would be worth us not selling any dolls 140cm and under, and they said that they could not advise us of anything officially, but it would look better if those dolls were not on the site, the following day, so we complied with this, as we had little option.
So this is a bit of a long winded reply, but this is why there are no 140cm or under dolls on the site these days.
Do let me know if you've any questions, and I'll clarify for you.