Prohibited and restricted items on Ebay

- Adult Only category
- Alcohol / Wine
- Animals and wildlife products – examples include live animals, mounted specimens, and ivory
- Art
- Artifacts, grave-related items, and Native American arts and crafts
- Catalytic converters and test pipes
- Cell phone (wireless) service contracts
- Charity or fundraising listings
- Clothing, used
- Contracts
- Cosmetics, used
- Counterfeit currency and stamps
- Credit cards
- Currency, selling
- Drugs and drug paraphernalia
- Drugs, describing drugs or drug-like substances
- Electronics equipment – examples include cable TV de-scramblers, radar scanners, and traffic signal control devices
- Electronic surveillance equipment – examples include wiretapping devices and telephone bugging devices
- Embargoed goods and prohibited countries – examples include items from Cuba
- Event tickets
- Firearms, weapons, and knives – examples include pepper spray, replicas, and stun guns (see also military items
- Food and healthcare 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 materials – examples include batteries, fireworks, and Freon
- Human parts and remains
- Importation of goods into the United States – examples include CDs that were 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
- Manufacturers' coupons
- Medical devices – examples include contact lenses, pacemakers, and surgical instruments
- Military items
- 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
- Real estate
- Recalled items
- Slot machines
- Stamps
- Stocks and other securities
- Stolen property and property with removed serial numbers
- Surveillance equipment
- Tobacco
- Travel
- Weeds