Restricted Products

Products not eligible to be sold on the Marketspread Platform

  • adult content
  • airlines, including charter airlines
  • alimony, child support, or other court-ordered payments
  • bidding fee auctions, including penny auctions
  • brand or reputation damaging, potential or otherwise, including bestiality, child pornography, escort services, mail order brides, and occult
  • buyers’ clubs, discount clubs or membership clubs
  • check cashing, or payment for a dishonored check or for an item deemed uncollectible by another merchant
  • computer repair or maintenance services
  • commodity trading or security trading
  • cruise lines
  • credit counseling or credit repair agencies
  • credit protection or identity theft protection services
  • counterfeit or possibly counterfeit goods, or products that infringe on the intellectual property rights of others
  • debt collection, consolidation, or reduction services
  • deceptive, unfair, predatory products, services or activities, or prohibited by the card payment networks
  • digital currency
  • discount medical or dental plans including discount insurance
  • discount coupon merchants or online sites
  • distressed property sales and marketing
  • door to door sales
  • drugs, alcohol, or drug paraphernalia, pseudo-pharmaceuticals, substances designed to mimic illegal drugs, or items that may represent them
  • factoring, liquidators, bailiffs, bail bondsmen
  • financial services or instruments, such as cash advances, bill payment, loans or loan payments, money orders, money transfers, prepaid cards, wire transfers, or sales of money orders or foreign currency
  • gambling or betting, including lottery tickets, casino gaming chips, off-track betting, sports forecasting or odds making, fantasy football, memberships on gambling-related internet sites and wagers at races, contests, sweepstakes, and offering prizes as an inducement to purchase goods or services
  • hate, violence, racial intolerance, or the financial exploitation of a crime
  • high interest rate non-bank consumer lending including payday lending and title loans
  • infomercial merchants
  • internet pharmacies or pharmacy referral sites
  • inbound or outbound telemarketing businesses including lead generation businesses
  • investment or “get rich quick” merchants, businesses or programs
  • licensed or franchised goods or services, such as apple products
  • marijuana dispensaries and related products or services
  • marketing activities involving “pay only for shipping” and/or “free trial” periods
  • medical equipment
  • multi-level marketing businesses, pyramid or ponzi schemes
  • merchants offering special incentives
  • negative option, renewal, or continuity subscription practices
  • obscene or pornographic items
  • pawn shops
  • pharmaceuticals, including medical marijuana
  • prepaid phone cards or phone services
  • prostitution, escort services, massage parlors, and other potentially sexually related services
  • real estate or motor vehicle sales
  • rebate or upsell programs
  • scrip-dispensing terminal
  • selling of mobile minutes
  • selling or sales of social media activity
  • stored value or quasi-cash
  • timeshares, timeshare resales and related marketing
  • tobacco, cigarettes, or e-cigarettes
  • unlawful activities or items, or activities or items that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others regarding the same
  • violent acts towards self or others, or activities or items that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others regarding the same
  • virtual currency or credits that can be monetized, re-sold or converted to physical or digital goods or services or otherwise exist in the virtual world
  • weapons, including replicas and collectible items, or ammunition or other accessories
  • weight loss programs