Rules

A single payment lands on every board whose window contains it. You do not choose a board; you choose an amount.

• All-time — the main board. Rank is your total lifetime spend on that listing. It never expires and never decays.
• Today — ranked only on what was paid during the current Indian day. It resets at midnight IST.
• Daily — every past Indian day, frozen permanently as its own board.

Every category also has its own all-time and today boards. A category board is usually the cheapest place to be first.

A day begins and ends at midnight IST (Asia/Kolkata). A payment confirmed at 11:58pm on Tuesday belongs to Tuesday’s board; one confirmed at 12:02am belongs to Wednesday’s. The day a payment counts toward is fixed when the payment is confirmed and is never recalculated afterwards.

• A new listing starts at ₹500 minimum, up to ₹99,99,999.
• Taking #1 costs the current #1’s amount plus ₹500.
• Taking any other rank costs that rank’s amount plus ₹10 — one step. Below #1, paying one step more than the listing above you takes their place.
• Amounts move in steps of ₹10.
• #1 is the only gap. An amount above the current #1 but below the #1 price is not accepted: you would be paying more than the leader without paying for the top spot. We tell you what #1 costs and let you pick that or the highest amount below it. This applies to every board your payment lands on — all-time, today, and your category — not just the one you happen to be looking at.

Every price is shown on the board before you pay. You never have to work one out.

If you pay more than the current #1 but less than #1 plus ₹500, you land at #2. That is deliberate, not an error. Any amount at or above ₹500 buys whatever rank it supports.

If two listings hold the same amount, the older one ranks above. Paying exactly what a listing paid puts you directly below it, not above it. To pass it, pay more.

Enter the same URL or handle again and choose a higher total. You are charged the difference, with a minimum raise of ₹100.

Someone else cannot take your rank by paying that same difference. A challenger pays the full rule price above. Defending a rank is cheap; taking one is not.

Not when you start checkout. If someone outbids you while you are paying, you still land — just lower. That is why we can put you on the board without holding a place for you, and it is also why a rank that moved is not grounds for a refund.

A product or company website, an X handle, or a LinkedIn profile.

Two listings can never be the same thing twice. We reduce whatever you paste to a single key: protocol, www., query parameters and fragments are all stripped, and the result is lowercased. So https://www.example.com/?ref=abc and example.com are one listing.

• Affiliate and tracking links do not work. Query parameters are removed before the key is made.
• Short links are resolved. A bit.ly or tinyurl is followed to its destination, and the destination is what gets listed and checked.
• Platform links are keyed by path, so two GitHub repositories, App Store apps or LinkedIn profiles never collide.
• An X profile and its @handle are the same account and share one listing.

• Chat and invite links — Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Messenger, Signal.
• Sexual or adult content.
• Lookalike domains that impersonate another brand, including ones using characters from another script to imitate Latin letters.
• Anything unlawful in India.

We remove listings that break these rules. Removal does not create a refund — see the refund policy.

The amount shown is the amount charged. Nothing is added at checkout — no fees, no surcharges. GST is not applicable: we are not registered under GST.

A numbered receipt is emailed on every payment.

Being outranked later, a Today board resetting at midnight, or getting fewer clicks than you hoped are not grounds for a refund. This is set out in full in the refund policy and the terms.

Email hello@outbidonline.in with the listing URL. We correct categories for free and act on takedown requests. See contact.