The Trade Prohibited and Restricted Items

Core Principle

The Trade will not accept offers involving items, services, experiences, rights, or other benefits that are illegal, unsafe, impossible to transfer, excessively regulated, likely to create serious liability, or impractical for Confection to evaluate, store, ship, film, or trade onward.

1. Prohibited Offers

Do not submit offers involving any of the following categories.

Illegal, stolen, counterfeit, or unauthorized items

  • stolen property

  • counterfeit goods

  • forged autographs or documents

  • items you do not own or control

  • items with undisclosed liens, leases, financing, or ownership disputes

  • items that cannot legally be possessed or transferred

Cash, financial substitutes, and investment-like offers during ordinary rounds

  • cash

  • gift cards

  • cryptocurrency

  • stocks, securities, tokens, or investment interests

  • loans

  • promises of future payment

  • crowdfunding commitments

  • offers to invest in Confection

Weapons, explosives, and dangerous tactical items

  • firearms

  • ammunition

  • explosives

  • fireworks

  • gun parts or accessories

  • silencers

  • tactical knives or restricted blades

  • tasers, stun guns, brass knuckles, pepper spray, mace, or similar self-defense weapons

Drugs, controlled substances, tobacco, cannabis, and regulated consumables

  • illegal drugs

  • prescription drugs

  • controlled substances

  • cannabis, THC, CBD, or hemp products

  • nicotine, tobacco, or vape products

  • supplements making medical or health claims

Alcohol as a trade item

  • bottles, cases, kegs, wine collections, liquor, beer, or other alcoholic beverages

Hazardous, toxic, flammable, or regulated materials

  • gasoline, fuels, solvents, poisons, pesticides, radioactive material, mercury, dangerous chemicals, biohazards, lab samples, or items requiring hazardous-material handling that Confection cannot confidently manage

Animals, plants, food, and agricultural materials

  • live animals

  • pets or livestock

  • animal remains without clear legal status

  • fresh or perishable food

  • plants, seeds, soil, agricultural products, meat, animal products, or homemade consumables

Medical, bodily, or invasive personal items

  • blood, tissue, genetic samples, bodily material, used medical devices, implants, medical treatments, health services from unverified providers, or items requiring medical oversight

Adult sexual material or services

  • pornography

  • sexual services

  • explicit adult products

  • fetish items

  • items whose primary value is sexual stimulation

Hate, extremist, terrorist, or harassment material

  • terrorist propaganda or memorabilia

  • extremist merchandise

  • hate-symbol collectibles

  • items used to harass, threaten, dox, or target people

Illegal access, surveillance, spyware, or hacking tools

  • hacked accounts

  • stolen passwords

  • pirated software

  • spyware

  • covert surveillance tools, or tools offered for illegal access or data theft

Highly personal or privacy-invasive materials

  • third-party personal documents

  • medical records

  • private photos or videos without consent

  • personal data sets

  • doxxing material

  • private correspondence without clear rights

Final-sale exception: Cash or a purchase offer may be considered only when Confection intentionally decides to end the chain with a final sale. Cash is not an ordinary round-to-round trade offer.

2. Restricted Offers Requiring Case-by-Case Review

These offers are not automatically rejected, but they require additional review before they can become finalists or selected trades.

Vehicles and titled property

Cars, motorcycles, boats, trailers, RVs, aircraft, and titled equipment require title, registration, lien, condition, transportation, and transfer review.

Large, fragile, valuable, or expensive-to-move objects

Pianos, jukeboxes, arcade machines, large sculptures, antique furniture, safes, commercial equipment, and heavy collectibles are reviewed for transportation, storage, damage risk, and possible double-shipping.

Experiences, services, vouchers, and access

Celebrity meetings, recording sessions, venue use, vacations, consulting packages, tours, performance opportunities, and similar offers require a signed, specific, transferable commitment from the actual provider.

Tickets, passes, memberships, reservations, and digital access

These must be transferable and must not violate provider restrictions. Expiration dates, identity requirements, resale limits, and account rules matter.

Intellectual property or creative rights

Scripts, music rights, artwork rights, trademarks, domain names, character rights, format rights, and licensing rights require clear ownership, scope, and attorney review when meaningful.

Real estate, business interests, securities, royalties, and financial assets

These are attorney-review only and generally late-chain only because they may require title, tax, securities, corporate, or professional closing review.

Antiquities, cultural property, fossils, ivory, taxidermy, and wildlife-related items

These may require import, export, ownership, endangered-species, or provenance review. Confection may decline them even when they appear valuable.

International items

International offers require a full two-sided feasibility check: the offered item coming to Confection or an agreed recipient, and the current chain item going to the selected trader.

3. Usually Acceptable With Ordinary Review

The following categories are generally acceptable if ownership, condition, shipping, legal status, and story value check out:

  • collectibles

  • memorabilia

  • art

  • props

  • instruments

  • books

  • toys and games

  • electronics without hazardous complications

  • small or manageable furniture

  • costumes or wardrobe pieces

  • decorative objects

  • tools or equipment that can be shipped safely

  • creator-made objects

  • signed items with appropriate provenance disclosure

Even ordinary items may be rejected if they are misdescribed, unsafe, impossible to transfer, too expensive to move, or unlikely to generate a stronger next trade.

4. Experiences, Services, and Other Nonphysical Offers

Some of the strongest offers may be experiences, services, access, or contractual rights rather than physical objects. These can be considered when they can be turned into a clear, transferable benefit.

Required standard: a signed, specific, assignable commitment from the person or organization responsible for delivering the benefit.

The commitment should define the provider, scope, dates, expiration, location, transferability, redemption costs, cancellation rules, and filming restrictions. A casual IOU is not enough to become a chain asset until those details are written down and confirmed.

5. Confection Review and Final Discretion

Confection may reject, pause, or request additional information for any offer at any time before a final Selected-Trader Agreement is signed. Confection may also decline an offer if later information reveals a concern that was not apparent when the offer was submitted, shortlisted, or shown to the audience.

This policy is part of The Trade Submission Terms. The Submission Terms, Media and Appearance Release, Privacy Policy, and any Selected-Trader Agreement may contain additional requirements.