- Ad space on public city boards. Your listing publishes as soon as the payment clears and stays published. Think of a board as a billboard the businesses in that city share, where the amount you pay decides how near the top you sit.
- No editorial picks, no algorithm, no relevance scoring. Each board sorts by amount, highest first. That is the entire ranking system.
- Whole dollars, $5 minimum, $1 at a time. Bidding under the top price still puts you on the board, at whatever place your amount takes.
- You pick a category when you list. It does not change your price or your position, and there is one ranking, not nine. What it adds is a second thing to be first at: the top spot in a category costs far less than the top spot overall, because you only have to clear the businesses like yours. Categories appear on a board once it has enough listings to be worth filtering.
- Equal amounts keep the order they arrived in. The earlier listing stays higher, so matching somebody does not pass them.
- Enter the same link again with a higher number and you pay only the difference. Nobody else can take that spot for the difference, because their own listing starts at zero.
- 5 times the current top amount pins your listing above a whole board for 3 hours, with a banner and a countdown. Nobody is hidden while it runs. One takeover runs at a time per city, and it sits on top of your bid rather than replacing it.
- A listing on one board does not appear on another. Amounts, ranks and takeovers are per city.
- A business website or an X handle. Chat and invite links are rejected, so no Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Messenger or Signal.
- Query strings are stripped from every listing, so affiliate, referral and tracking URLs will not survive. The cleaned link is also the key, so the same page is one listing however you paste it.
- Adult content, gambling, regulated substances, malware, phishing, anything illegal, and anything impersonating another business. Removal comes with a refund of what you paid.
- Full refund within 7 days, for any reason, by emailing support@outbidthemarket.com. After that, refunds cover listings that failed to publish or that we removed. A refund takes that amount back off the board.
- Every outbound link is marked nofollow and sponsored, and clicks are counted and shown on your listing. Buying a spot does not move you in Google.
- Payments run through PayPal, so the charge shows as PayPal with OutbidtheMarket named on the receipt. If you do not recognise one, email us before your bank. We refund a genuine mistake the same day.
- OutbidtheMarket. support@outbidthemarket.com. Email is answered within one business day, refund requests included.