What is not allowed on Gumtree?

The list below details what can't be posted on Gumtree:

1. Alcoholic Beverages
2. Blood, Bodily Fluids and Body Parts
3. Burglary Tools
4. Counterfeit Products, replicas or knock-off brand name goods
5. Electronic Surveillance Equipment
6. Embargoed Goods
7. Endangered or protected species, or any part of any endangered or protected species
8. Escort services that offer or indicate sexual services
9. Fireworks, Destructive Devices and Explosives
10. Government and Transit Badges, Uniforms, IDs, Documents and Licenses
11. Hazardous Materials including but not limited to radioactive, toxic and explosive materials
12. Currency that is in use (including virtual currency) or counterfeit currency, stamps or coins or photographs, drawings, designs or reproduction of currency
13. Identity Documents, Personal Financial Records & Personal Information
14. Illegal Drugs, controlled substances, substances and items used to manufacture controlled substances and drugs, & drug paraphernalia
15. Illegal items and services
16. Illegal telecommunication and electronics equipment such as access cards, password sniffers, radar scanners, traffic signal control devices or cable descrambler
17. Items issued to any Armed Force that have not been disposed of in accordance with that country's demilitarization policies
18. Items which encourage or facilitate illegal activity
19. Loans: Gumtree.ie does not allow ads for loans either offered or wanted
20. Lottery Tickets, Sweepstakes Entries and Slot Machines
21. Train tickets in the UK, including Eurostar tickets
22. Football tickets - It is illegal to resell any tickets to professional football matches occurring in England and Wales or involving English or Welsh teams playing outside England or Wales
23. Material that is obscene, pornographic, adult in nature, or harmful to minors
24. Material that infringes copyright, including but not limited to software or other digital goods which you are not authorized to sell
25. New merchandise or services from network marketing companies, work-from-home, independent franchisees or distributors, or similar representatives
26. Personal information or mailing lists.We do not accept the sale of bulk email, Internet Protocol (IP), Instant Messenger (IM), or mailing lists that contain names, addresses, phone numbers, or other personal identifying information. Any tools or software designed predominantly to send unsolicited commercial messages (UCE or "spam") are also not permitted.
27. Selling or offering services for supplements/medicine general or pharmaceutical
28. Nonprescription drugs, drugs that make false or misleading treatment claims, or treatment claims that require Irish Medicine Board "HPRA" approval
29. Offensive material
30. Pesticides or hazardous materials
31. Pictures or images that contain nudity
32. Plants and insects that are restricted or regulated
33. Prescription drugs and devices
34. Prostitution or ads that offer sex, sexual favors or sexual actions in exchange for anything
35. Recalled items (for items recalled in Ireland, please visit: NCA - Product Recalls
36. Stocks and Other Securities
37. Stolen property
38. Tickets to any FIFA World Cup event
39. Tobacco products
40. We have removed/rejected your advert as the sale of turf via advertising on the internet or in other
    media is no longer permitted in the Republic of Ireland.
    Legislation which took effect on 31 October 2022 states: the holder of a right of turbary may sell or
    offer to sell turf to another provided it is not by way of the internet or other media, or from a
    premises or place used for the retail of food, fuel or other goods (including from shops, garages and petrol filling stations, fuel yards and public houses and other public places (within the meaning of section 3 of the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act 1994 (No. 2 of 1994))
    Further information can be found atwww.gov.ie/cleanair
    Specific queries on the new Regulations may be addressed to the Department of the Environment,
    Climate and Communications [e-mail]
41. Used cosmetics
42. Used or rebuilt batteries or batteries containing mercury
43. We do not accept ads selling body parts/bodily fluids, adoption or surrogacy anywhere on the site
44. Weapons and related items (including, but not limited to firearms, firearm accessories, parts and magazines, ammunition, paintball guns, BB and pellet guns, tear gas, teasers, stun guns, switchblade knives, martial arts weapons, archery and/or bow and arrow equipment)

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