Stripe's list of prohibited businesses

Why is it absurd?

Do you think it's absurdly long? Their agreement in general is much shorter than any single one of the several I had to go through to get a merchant account and CC processing service before.

Is it absurd because you think the business types they mention are silly? Well, they are silly. But people do them.

Is it absurd because you are angry your business is on the list? Well, that's life. I, as a valid business owner who uses Stripe, am very glad Stripe protects their relationships / value / company / customer rep time by refusing to serve illegal or borderline illegal businesses, and those with ridiculously high rates of fraud. Yay!

The only one on here that strikes me as odd is the prohibition on selling fake hair or hair extensions. I'm curious why that is? I suppose I could see prohibitions on selling human hair, but fake hair seems odd.

I think most of these are reasonable, and I immediately see why they are on the list.

I think I know why this is on there:

"(10) age restricted products or services"

But wouldn't that also apply to every business that has a COPPA disclaimer in its ToS.

Funny, maybe, but not absurd, at least not in a way that's Stripe's fault. I'm curious about the hair one. I wouldn't expect selling hair to be a real problem. Is there a story that motivated that restriction? I notice it's also in the list of Braintree's restrictions that toomuchtodo posted.