Prohibited Products and Activities Print

The following products and activities are not allowed on One Avenue. This is almost always because they violate U.S. federal law, they are prohibited by card network rules, or they are restricted by our payment processing partners. If you are unsure whether your content is prohibited on One Avenue, please contact us with a description or example of the content.

1. unlicensed proprietary content
2. food products and ingredients (including consumer packaged goods, livestock, plants, and seeds)
3. bail bonds
4. bidding fee or penny auctions
5. age or legally restricted products or services
6. sexually-oriented or pornographic content (including but not limited to adult books or video, adult telephone conversations or audio, membership to adult websites or content, companion or escort services, dating services, mail-order brides, massage parlors and prostitution, or content of any format that features characters who are minors, are depicted as minors or are suggested to be minors in any sexual or sensual context)
7. cell phones/pagers
8. centralized reservation services
9. chain letters
10. check cashing
11. counterfeit goods/replicas
12. currency exchange (including physical, digital, or cryptographic currency exchange)
13. services (including, but not limited to, "get rich quick" schemes, business opportunities, investment opportunities, mortgage consulting, real estate purchases, mortgage reduction services and credit repair and protection)
14. credit card and identity theft protection
15. cruise lines
16. flea markets
17. essay mills/paper mills
18. extended warranties
19. fortune tellers
20. gambling (including legal gambling where the cardholder is not present when the bet is made, lotteries, illegal gambling, internet gambling, sports forecasting, and odds making) Exception: Per Michigan law we do allow some forms of gambling.
21. illegal products or services
22. money transmission
23. money service businesses
24. multi-level marketing or pyramid schemes
25. wire transfers or money orders
26. pharmacies or internet pharmacies
27. pseudo pharmaceuticals (including anti-aging pills, sexual stimulants, weight loss pills, diet pills)
28. quasi-cash or stores of value
29. security brokerage
30. door-to-door sales
31. offering substantial rebates or special incentives that are awarded to the cardholder subsequent to the original purchase
32. negative response marketing techniques
33. deceptive marketing practices
34. reselling private label rights products
35. shipping/forwarding brokers
36. substances designed to mimic illegal drugs
37. telemarketing
38. timeshares
39. tobacco products
40. "80%" firearm law skirting
41. jewelry or beauty products
42. Anything that makes the owner want to vomit.
43. Anything that makes the police, etc. call or write.

This list is maintained separately from the One Avenues LLC Terms of Service. One Avenue makes every effort to keep this list as current as possible. However, because of the unpredictable nature of card network rules, legislation, and payment processor relationships, this list may change abruptly and without notice. Changes to this list take effect immediately.