The rules

There is no algorithm here, and nothing to apply for. You pay money, your handle appears on a ranked list, and the amount you paid is your rank. Anyone can outbid anyone. That is the entire product.

Ranking

• Rank is total dollars paid, highest first. Nothing else moves it.
• Equal totals break by whoever's payment completed first. An equal bid therefore ranks below the handle it matched.
• A lower amount still claims the best rank that amount can hold.
• Ranks are global. Filtering the board by platform never renumbers them — a listing at #7 shows #7 under every tab, because #7 is what it paid for.

Paying

• Bids are whole US dollars. New listings start at $5.
• To raise a handle already on the board, enter it again with a higher total. You pay only the difference, and the new total must be at least $1 higher.
• Opening checkout reserves nothing. Only a completed payment places or raises a handle. If someone else's payment lands first, yours is still credited in full and takes the rank available when it is processed.
• Bids are non-refundable once placed.
• You must be 18 or over.

Handles

• Instagram: 1–30 characters: letters, digits, periods and underscores.
• X: 1–15 characters: letters, digits and underscores.
• Snapchat: 3–15 characters, starting with a letter: letters, digits, periods, underscores and hyphens.
• The same handle on two platforms is two separate listings. @john on Instagram and @john on X are unrelated here, exactly as they are in life.

What a listing is — and is not

No handle ownership is transferred or sold. A listing is a position on this board and nothing else. It is not the account, not access to it, and it does not imply the bidder runs the profile. Every platform prohibits selling or transferring accounts; we are not in that business and never will be.

You may bid on a handle that is not yours — that is the point of an open board — but you may not do it in a way designed to deceive anyone about who runs that profile.

What gets removed

• Illegal activity of any kind.
• Hate speech, harassment, or targeted abuse.
• Impersonation — bidding on a handle in a way designed to deceive visitors about who runs it.
• Sexual content involving minors.
• Scams, phishing, malware, or deceptive commercial schemes.

We may remove a listing that breaks these rules, without a refund. If you are the owner of a handle and want its listing taken down, or you think a listing is deceptive, use the report form — we aim to respond within 72 hours.

Honesty

Every number on the board is real: real completed payments, real click counts, real visitor counts. There are no countdowns, no fabricated activity and no invented figures anywhere in this product. Follower counts, where shown, are a best-effort snapshot from the platform and are shown as neutral context — we make no claim to have caused any change in them.

The mechanic is openly modelled on outbid.lol by Jonathan Wilke, and on bidinsta.lol.