Prohibited or Restricted Items on Whatnot

Whatnot prohibits the following items from being sold or given away. When offering items for sale, please also review Whatnot’s Community Guidelines and Marketplace Listing Guidelines.

• Adult/sex toys or products including, sex dolls, massagers, condoms & lubricant 
• Airbags
• Alcohol (including, beer, spirits, and wine)
• Ammunition (including, new and used)
• Cash or cash equivalent (excluding collectible currency) 
• Cigarettes, cigars, tobacco products, vaping devices, or smokable products
• Corrective eyeglasses, corrective and colored contact lenses (excluding low strength magnifying glasses)
• Counterfeit items
• Human or animal remains (including cremated remains, human and animal bones, taxidermy, etc.) 
• Drugs and medications (including illegal & controlled substances, THC, “legal highs”, OTC medications, and prescription drugs)
• Drug paraphernalia (including bongs, pipes, pill presses, etc.) 
• Dry ice
• Explicit, hateful or offensive items (nudity is permitted provided not sexually explicit) 
• Explosives and explosive precursors (including fireworks, flares, sparklers)
• Expired products
• Financial products or instruments (including stocks, bonds, securities)
• Gasoline
• Glues
• Hand sanitizer
• Hemp and CBD products (including cannabis seeds, but hemp fiber in textiles is permitted) 
• Historical or reproductions of Nazi items and propaganda
• Illegal items
• Items that violate our Community Guidelines
• Items that violate our IP Policy
• Items that violate the Terms and Conditions of our carrier partners
• Items that promote deceptive or illegal activity (including falsified IDs or documents, falsified test results)

• Items making health claims

• Live animals
• Matches, lighters, flamethrowers
• Medical products (including supplies, medications, medical devices and machinery, etc.)
• Paint (painted products are okay)
• Poisons and waste of any kind
• Radioactive materials (uranium dishware/cookware is okay)
• Raffle tickets, lottery tickets
• Pornography 
• Stolen items
• Tattoo equipment, needles and ink 
• Used cosmetics, sponges, or applicators
• Used undergarments
• Weapons (including firearms, imitation firearms, antique guns, paintball/airsoft guns, stun guns, mace spray, pepper spray, plans/blueprints to make weapons)

Whatnot restricts the sale and shipping of the following:

• Knives 
• Cosmetics 
• Potentially hazardous materials