Prohibited Goods and Services
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Contents
- Medicine and Health
- Tobacco, Alcohol, Drugs
- Flora and Fauna
- Financial Services, Material, and Currency Values
- Intellectual Property Rights
- Other Goods and Services Prohibited on next2u
Medicine and Health
- Medical services, except for cosmetic services.
- Medicines (including veterinary drugs); biologically active supplements.
- X-ray equipment (including CT), radiation therapy equipment, devices using radioactive substances.
- Medicinal raw materials derived from northern reindeer husbandry (e.g., maral antlers, pantorin).
- Traditional medicine methods.
- Human organs and tissues, donor services, surrogate motherhood services, breast milk.
Tobacco, Alcohol, Drugs
- Nicotine-containing products (including those intended for consumption by heating or evaporation, tobacco, tobacco products), non-tobacco and nicotine-free smoking mixtures, as well as their packaging; certificates, discount coupons, or promo codes for purchasing such products.
- Smoking accessories, devices for consuming nicotine-containing products, hookahs (including electronic cigarettes, electronic nicotine delivery systems, vapes), their packaging, and repair services; certificates, discount coupons, or promo codes for such goods.
- Alcoholic products, ethyl and methyl alcohol (including synthetic, technical, and food-grade), alcohol-based antiseptic solutions, as well as containers for or previously used for such products.
- Narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, their precursors, as well as plants containing such substances; any items for their consumption; goods and services promoting or associated with such substances; job searches and offers in this field; potent and toxic substances whose circulation is prohibited.
Flora and Fauna
- Animals, plants, and other organisms listed in the European Red List of Threatened SPecies, regional Red Lists, protected by international treaties (e.g., CITES) or applicable legislation, their parts and derivatives (taxidermy, skins, bone trophies, etc.), any products made from them (clothing, accessories, interior items, food products, etc.), as well as animals and other organisms whose possession and use are prohibited by law; service offers related to such animals and plants.
- Goods and services that may be used for poaching and other illegal capturing of animals, birds, or fish (e.g., electric fishing rods, fishing nets, leg-hold traps, animal baiting services); any goods obtained through such activities.
- Zoos; services involving the use of animals for cultural and entertainment purposes; hunting licenses and permits; any goods and services related to animal cruelty.
Financial Services, Material, and Currency Values
- Financial services, including those related to:
(a) providing or arranging loans directly by the performer;
(b) using personal, official (professional) positions and/or any personal connections to provide financial services.
- Goods and services related to forex dealers (including equipment, consulting, training).
- Foreign currency and other monetary values, coins, and banknotes in circulation, except for numismatic purposes; counterfeit coins and banknotes (except for souvenirs, props for performances and filming).
- Cryptocurrencies and services related to their circulation, including training; terminals for selling and exchanging cryptocurrency.
- Securities, except for collectible securities with an explicitly stated expired validity period or marked as void/canceled/redeemed.
- Precious metals, natural precious stones, and pearls (except for jewelry made from them).
- Offers for participation in financial or commodity pyramids; investments without details, paid website registrations, reviews, reposts, likes on social media, viewing ads or news online, link-clicking, participation in online surveys, filling out forms online, and similar activities; dubious income opportunities or goods, related training, and other similar offers.
Intellectual Property Rights
- Counterfeit goods – items illegally using brand trademarks or imitating the appearance of original products (e.g., replica/fake designer clothing, accessories, phones).
- Pirated products (e.g., unlicensed movies, games, music).
- Services for replacing licensed software or bypassing copyright protection mechanisms (e.g., firmware modifications, unlocks, jailbreaks).
Other Goods and Services Prohibited on next2u
- Goods and services that lack consumer value (e.g., tags and receipts without products), expired food, substandard products, used underwear (except maternity items), hosiery, or disposable items.
- Ready-made diploma and coursework, dissertations, and other academic papers; services for writing them; job search and offers in this field.
- Explosives and materials, detonation devices, weaponry, and ammunition, as well as services for homemade manufacturing.
- Goods and services related to weapons:
(a) any type of weapon: firearms, pneumatic, cold weapons, hunting, traumatic, gas, electric shock, throwing, sports, signal, collectible, deactivated, blank-firing, souvenir, MGG (mass-dimensional models), and their packaging;
(b) parts for any type of weapon, including major and minor components, barrels, receivers, bolts, bolt carriers, stocks, forearms, grips, magazines, muzzle devices (suppressors, flash suppressors, moderators), trigger mechanisms, blades;
(c) any type of ammunition, services for manufacturing ammunition;
(d) self-defense tools: batons, electric shockers, knuckles, aerosol and flashbang devices, gas and pepper sprays, push daggers, etc;
(e) butterfly knives; automatic, semi-automatic, spring-assisted, gravity, inertia knives with automatically deploying blades from the handle when pressing a button or lever, or extending due to gravity or rapid motion (including those not classified as cold weapons);
(f) weapon manufacturing and repair;
(g) assistance in obtaining a weapon permit;
(h) firearms training for obtaining a license.
- Debt collection services, job search and offers in this field.
- State awards, ribbons and bars for them, as well as their copies, mock-ups, and models (except for collector copies from magazines).
- Intimate services (e.g., escort services, erotic massage, striptease, nude photoshoots, webcam), job search and offers in this field; adult goods, including sex toys, pornographic materials, related services; used clothing and footwear offered as fetish items.
- Offers related to lotteries, games of chance, betting, including equipment for their organization.
- Encryption technology, devices capable of hidden audio or video recording, technical means for eavesdropping and other covert information gathering, and related documents.
- Political propaganda materials, election ballots, and other items and services related to the exercise of political rights; job search and offers in this field.
- Offers related to religious ceremonies, prayers, activities of religious organizations, and sects; job search and offers in this field.
- Alternative medicine, occult and magical services, any rituals and divination (e.g., witchcraft, magic, fortune-telling) aimed at causing harm or with the intent to do so; job search and offers in this field.
- Search for and offer of work in the field of distribution of network marketing products and direct sales by independent distributors (sales representatives).
- Search for and offer of work in the armed forces, military structures of foreign states, as well as in non-governmental paramilitary organizations; goods with symbols of such organizations.
- Extremist materials and items with Nazi symbols, offers with mentions or symbols of Nazi organizations and organizations whose activities are prohibited in the territory of the EU.
- Services related to circumventing next2u rules
- Any goods and services, the circulation of which is limited or prohibited, or which may be aimed at violating applicable legislation, as well as offers containing information prohibited for distribution, including:
a) contact or account information, including phone numbers, email addresses, accounts of instant messengers, social networks, blogs and forums, games and other services, including links for their creation (for example, Skype, Steam, iTunes, Google Play); contact information databases; services for the paid use of an account on any resource by another person;
b) SIM cards and services for connecting to mobile operators;
c) reversible frames and quick-release frames for car numbers, anti-tow trucks, services for adjusting mileage and any manipulations with vehicle odometers (including repairs); universal keys for intercoms, code grabbers; magnets for illegally adjusting meters, electricity meters with remote controls, as well as any spare parts for such goods; unlocking in taxi aggregators; other similar goods and services;
d) real estate and goods with a ban (restriction) on performing registration actions, with the exception of property sold through auctions;
d) job offers without official registration; services, job search and job offers related to the use of front men (e.g., registration of organizations in the name of a front man; fictitious performance of the functions of an executive body in an organization; passing exams, certifications, accreditation, tests, surveys, etc. on behalf of another person; fictitious marriages); services related to registration and recordation at the place of residence or place of stay; sale of diagnostic cards without actually conducting a technical inspection of the car and other similar offers;
e) goods and services related to the illegal circulation or counterfeiting of state registration plates, vehicle documents, and other official documents granting rights or exempting from obligations (e.g., state certificates, licenses, permits, signs, passes, strict reporting forms, certificates, education or qualification documents), with the exception of goods for collecting purposes (e.g., with a clearly indicated expired period or a mark of invalidity/cancellation/cancellation); services for editing information in official registers and databases;
g) mediation in obtaining state and municipal services for a fee;
h) services, job search and offer related to the unauthorized collection and use of information, the use of technologies (for example, hacking accounts and other hacker services, organizing spam mailings, unauthorized copying of content, deletion of reviews, violation of privacy, disclosure of state, official, commercial and other secrets);
i) products with information on distance selling, if their distance selling is prohibited;
k) products and services without registration, certification, licenses or permits, when their presence, passing or obtaining is mandatory;
l) products from the state material reserve;
m) offers aimed at causing harm to third parties or their property, as well as offers with signs of fraud;
n) products and services that may pose a threat to transport security (including transport infrastructure facilities, aviation enterprises, sale of transport documents).
- Goods and services related to coronavirus:
a) aimed at violating social distancing and other isolation measures
b) means for the treatment, diagnosis and prevention of coronavirus
c) mentioning a term to attract attention or describe the terms of the transaction
d) diagnostic tests without specifying a specific disease for which they are intended
- Offers with signs of speculation on a socially significant topic in order to attract attention to the product or post unreliable or unverified information
- E-books (except for technical devices for reading them), including periodicals and articles in electronic form, audio books and online course materials (including video recordings)
- Offers of basic socially significant goods at inflated prices in the context of artificially created shortages and rush demand