# Prohibited items and conduct

> Physical goods only. This list is not negotiable and there is no appeals process for the first section.

Last updated 18 August 2026.

## Never, under any circumstances

Content in this section is not held, reviewed, or discussed. It is refused at creation, the response names the category that matched, and where the law requires a report, one is made.

- Anything sexualising a minor, in any medium, in any context. Refused at creation, retained for law enforcement, and referred to NCMEC.
- Sexual services, escorting, "companionship" for payment, or any offer or solicitation that a reasonable reader would understand as either, including coded forms of it.
- Human trafficking, forced labour, or the sale of a person or their services.
- Firearms, ammunition, magazines, receivers, frames, suppressors, conversion devices, and 3D-printed or unserialised firearm parts.
- Explosives, blasting agents, destructive devices, and their components.
- Controlled substances, prescription medication, precursors, and paraphernalia intended for their use.
- Human remains and body parts.

## Categories that do not exist here

There are no personals, dating, adult, companionship, or services categories on curb.sale, and there never will be. An offer of sexual services, or anything a reasonable reader would take as one, is refused at creation under FOSTA-SESTA, 47 U.S.C. §230(e)(5). The rest of this list is held out of search rather than published. Posting one of them under another category does not change either outcome.

- **Personals and dating** of every kind, including missed connections, "seeking", and the classic four-letter abbreviations.
- **Adult goods and content**: pornography, sex toys, used underwear, and anything sold for a sexual purpose.
- **Services performed by people**: labour, moving help, cleaning, massage, childcare, tutoring, rides, repairs, "hire me". Sell the drill; do not sell the drilling.
- **Live animals**, including rehoming for a fee, breeding, stud services, and livestock.
- **Cryptocurrency, tokens, NFTs, wallets holding value, and investment opportunities.** Mining hardware and hardware wallets are ordinary electronics and are fine.
- **Financial products**: loans, credit repair, debt relief, insurance, gift-card arbitrage, "passive income".
- **Jobs and housing** are out of scope for now. Not prohibited and not blocked, but this is built for objects somebody carries out of a house, and both carry advertising rules a noticeboard has to satisfy before it invites them.
- **Vehicles are fine.** Sell the car. The listing has nowhere to put a VIN, a title status or an odometer reading, so put them in the text — a buyer will ask for all three, and we cannot verify any of them for you.

## Also prohibited

- Counterfeits, replicas, unauthorised copies, and anything described as "AAA", "mirror grade", or "first copy".
- Stolen goods, and items whose serial numbers have been removed or whose identifiers are locked or blacklisted.
- Recalled products, unsafe child equipment, and airbags.
- Tobacco, nicotine, vapes, and alcohol.
- Government identification, official documents, licences, diplomas, and forgeries of any of them.
- Personal information, account credentials, subscription logins, and databases of either.
- Endangered species, ivory, and products made from protected wildlife.
- Hazardous materials, medical waste, and anything requiring a licence to transfer that the buyer will not have.
- Anything whose sale, possession, or transfer is unlawful where the buyer or seller is.

## Prohibited conduct

- Posting the same item repeatedly, or across many locations, to occupy search results.
- Impersonating a person, a brand, or a business.
- Phishing, fake escrow, advance-fee schemes, overpayment scams, and anything designed to obtain money for an item that will not arrive.
- Posting another person's contact details, address, or photograph without their consent.
- Attempting to inject markup, script, or links into a listing body or a relay message.
- Scraping the corpus in bulk, mirroring it, or reselling access to it. Training on it is fine; taking it wholesale to republish is not.
- Harassment through the relay, including contacting someone who has blocked you.

## What happens when something matches

1. **Refused.** Only the first section above. The listing is never created and the response says which category matched.
2. **Held.** Everything else. The listing is live at its URL, still yours, still editable, and simply absent from search until it is reviewed or corrected. You are not accused of anything and you do not need to appeal.
3. **Flagged out.** Three separate people reporting a listing removes it from search automatically. This is deliberately cheap to trigger and deliberately cheap to recover from: reword and repost.

This catches compliant listings sometimes. When it does, the listing is still live at its URL and still yours: correcting it or reposting it is the whole remedy, and neither needs an appeal.

## Reporting something

Use the report link on any listing. It needs no account. For anything urgent, dangerous, or involving a child, write to abuse@curb.sale with the listing URL and stop there; do not investigate it yourself.

**Report a listing without opening the page**

```
curl -sX POST https://curb.sale/flag/abc1234 -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"reason":"prohibited","detail":"what is wrong with it"}'
```

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