The content below is for guidance only. Amazon reserves the right to remove any listing it considers to be inappropriate for sale for any reason.
Other examples of prohibited listings
Products produced as free samples or testers unless you have been specifically authorised to do so by Amazon
Listings acting wholly or mainly as advertisements, including links to third party websites and promotional messages
Personal data including mailing lists
Internet domain names
Online accounts such as Steam or X-Box gaming accounts
Real estate property
EAN codes
Grab bags
Offers for sale of services
Service contracts or warranties unless you have been specifically authorised to do so by Amazon
Fraudulent or photocopied coupons, coupons priced at higher than their value and coupons that forbid transfer
Unlicensed pesticides, including weed, mould and fungi killers, slug pellets and insect killers, bird and animal repellents and killers, and any other pesticides designated as persistent organic pollutants (“POPs”)
Pesticides appropriate for “Professional-use” only
These neonicotinoid pesticides: Imidacloprid, Thiamethoxam and Clothianidin
Illegal and noxious plants or seeds, including those that do not comply with regulations on quality, packaging or labelling
Regulated chemicals or professional use only chemicals
Poisons
Some software products including:
Copied, duplicated or “softlifted” software
Academic or educational versions of software
Back-up software
Beta, pre-release software
Fulfilment software
Military software
Promotional software
Shared software licences, where all of the licences are unused
Recovery discs
Unauthorised freeware and shareware
Products made available by digital download: Amazon prohibits the listing of products that are made available by digital download, including "codes" that can be used to access content on other websites.
Television subscription packages
Experience days
Artefacts and archaeological finds that are more than 300 years old
Confederate flag merchandise
Lead weights for the purpose of weighting fishing lines
Specialist printing equipment that is intended to be used for a criminal purpose or where the seller knows that it will be used for a criminal purpose
Nitrous Oxide chargers, unless they are intended for food preparation only and as long as they are not sold in pack sizes of more than 10 units
"Mystery boxes,” “Surprise boxes,” or similarly named products containing items that are not clearly described on the product detail page
Fireworks (except category 1 fireworks)
Products Promoting Illegal Use. Sellers must not promote illegal or prohibited uses of their products on Amazon
Stolen Property
Items that infringe upon an individual's privacy. Amazon holds personal privacy in the highest regard. Therefore, items that infringe upon, or have potential to infringe upon, any individual's privacy are prohibited
Listings acting wholly or mainly as advertisements, including links to third party websites and promotional messages
“Washington Redskins” merchandise
Specific single-use or disposable plastic products, including those made of biodegradable plastic, such as:
Cutlery (forks, knives, spoons, chopsticks);
Plates;
Straws (except if they are medical devices);
Beverage stirrers;
Balloon sticks for consumer use, including the mechanisms of such sticks;
Food containers made of expanded polystyrene, i.e. receptacles such as boxes, used to contain food;
Beverage containers made of expanded polystyrene, including their caps and lids;
Cups for beverages made of expanded polystyrene, including their covers and lids.
Cotton bud sticks (except if they are medical devices)
Products made from oxo-degradable and oxo-biodegradable plastic.
Note: Sellers who list prohibited items can have their selling permissions removed, either temporarily or permanently.
Health and Safety Executive guidance on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (“REACH”), http://www.hse.gov.uk/reach/