House rules

Rules

Big Bidder is a public auction board for products and profiles. There are no ads, no API keys, and no revenue share. You pay to stand above everyone else. Rank is the paddle — nothing else.

How ranking works

• New lots start at $1. Maximum is $9,999. You raise the paddle one dollar at a time; each paid raise must add at least $1.
• Taking any rank, including #1, costs at least $1 more than the lot currently sitting there. Paying less than #1 still hangs you at whatever rank that paddle can take. Equal paddles keep the older lot higher.
• Enter the same website or @handle again to raise that lot. You only pay the difference. Somebody else cannot steal your rank by paying only that difference.
• App Store, Play Store, GitHub, and X links are keyed by path, so different apps do not share a paddle. Query strings are stripped.

What you can list

• A product website, or an X @handle.
• Chat and invite links are not allowed — Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Messenger, Signal, and similar.
• Sexual content and adult platforms are not allowed.
• Affiliate and tracking parameters are stripped.
• Link shorteners are resolved to the destination. If the destination is still a shortener or a banned host, the paddle is refused.

After you pay

• Checkout is live Stripe. A completed payment is what claims the rank — not the success URL.
• Your lot is public. Clicks go to the URL or profile you submitted, without query parameters.
• No refunds except failed or duplicate charges.