I was looking at Stripe.com, a new processor and found the prohibited businesses interesting enough to share. I love some of these, and seems like some duplication. Fortune Tellers are my favorite.
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5. Prohibited Businesses
By registering for a Stripe Service Account, you are confirming that you will not accept payments in connection with the following businesses, business activities or business practices: (1) door-to-door sales, (2) offering substantial rebates or special incentives to the Cardholder subsequent to the original purchase, (3) negative response marketing, (4) engaging in deceptive marketing practices, (5) sharing Cardholder?s data with another merchant for payment of up-sell or cross-sell product or service, (6) evading Card Network?s chargeback monitoring programs, (7) engaging in any form of licensed or unlicensed aggregation or factoring, (8) airlines,
(9) age restricted products or services, (10) bail bonds,
(11) bankruptcy lawyers, (12) bidding fee auctions, (13) collection agencies, (14) chain letters, (15) check cashing, wire transfers or money orders, (16) counterfeit goods, (17) currency exchanges or dealers, (18) embassies, foreign consulates or other foreign governments, (19) firms selling business opportunities, investment opportunities, mortgage consulting, credit repair or protection or real estate purchases with no money down, (20) credit card and identity theft protection, (21) cruise lines, (22) essay mills, (23) flea markets, (24) drug paraphernalia, (25) extended warranties,
(26) fortune tellers, (27) gambling, (28) sports forecasting or odds making, (29) illegal products or services, (30) mail-order brides, (31) marijuana dispensaries and related businesses, (32) money transmitters or money service businesses, (33) multi-level marketing or pyramid schemes, (34) non-institutional pharmacies, (35) pseudo pharmaceuticals, (36) quasi-cash or stored value, (37) securities brokers,
(38) sexually-oriented or pornographic products or services, (39) shipping or forwarding brokers, (40) substances designed to mimic illegal drugs, (41) telemarketing, (42) timeshares, (43) tobacco and e-cigarettes, (44) weapons and munitions and (45) virtual currency that can be monetized, re-sold or converted to physical or digital goods or services or otherwise exit the virtual world.
