This is list of prohibited and restricted listings on Swapnice. Users agree not to make listings for any of the following:
- Adult Only category listings(must be categorized as such)
- Alcohol
- Animals and wildlife products – examples include live animals, mounted specimens, and ivory
- Artifacts, grave-related items, and Native American arts and crafts
- Catalytic converters and test pipes
- Cell phone (wireless) service contracts
- Charity and fundraising
- Contracts
- Counterfeit currency and stamps
- Coupons
- Credit cards
- Active Currency, selling
- Drugs and drug paraphernalia
- Electronics equipment – examples include cable TV de-scramblers, radar scanners, signal jammers, and traffic signal control devices
- Embargoed goods from prohibited countries – examples include items from North Korea
- Event tickets
- Firearms, weapons, and knives – examples include pepper spray, replicas, and tasers (see also military items)
- Gift cards
- Government documents, IDs, and licenses
Government, transit, and shipping-related items – examples include airplane operations manuals, subway employee uniforms, and U.S. Postal * Service (USPS) mailbags
- Hazardous, restricted, or regulated materials – examples include batteries, fireworks, and refrigerants
- Human remains and body parts
- Importation of goods into the US – examples include CDs intended only for distribution in a certain country
- International trading
- Items encouraging illegal activity – examples include an eBook describing how to create methamphetamine
- Lockpicking devices
- Lottery tickets
- Mailing lists and personal information
- Medical drugs, devices, and healthcare – examples include prescription drugs, contact lenses, pacemakers, and surgical instruments
- Military items (see also firearms, weapons, and knives)
- Multi-level marketing, pyramid, and matrix programs
- Offensive material – examples include ethnically or racially offensive material and Nazi memorabilia
- Pesticides
- Plants and seeds
- Police-related items
- Political memorabilia (reproduction)
- Postage meters
- Prescription drugs
- Prohibited services
- Recalled items
- Stocks and other securities
- Stolen property
- Surveillance equipment
- Tobacco
- Travel
- Weeds (see plants and seeds)