How OutbidMe works
OutbidMe is a digital advertising and promotional placement platform. Rank is the listing amount. Listed customers can vote; votes never take #1 or pay you cash.
Last updated 3 October 2026 · OutbidMe · Worldwide
Before you buy
Two things are worth checking first. Look at the board you are aiming at: the amount that reaches a given position on a quiet category board is not the amount it takes on a busy one, and each category page shows both its current listings and what the top placement there costs. Then decide whether a priced public position is the thing you want at all. It is not the same purchase as a directory entry, a launch post, or an ad, and the guides set those side by side before you spend anything.
01 Create your promotional listing
Enter the name, title, public link, and the email that owns this listing. A 6-digit code confirms that mailbox before you pay. You do not have to sign in to buy.
02 Select your desired placement
New listings start at 1 unit of the claim currency ($1, ₹1, £1, €1, and the same in every other claim country) and land at the rank that amount buys. #1 on any board costs that board’s current #1 listing plus 1 unit of the claim currency. Votes do not change that price.
03 Pay the applicable placement price
You pay the published price for advertising placement. Payment is for promotional visibility only. It is not a wager, lottery entry, investment, or a chance to receive money.
04 Your listing becomes publicly visible
After payment is verified, your name, title, and link appear on the public board. Rank is the amount paid. You can raise later by paying only the difference. Votes never remove #1 or pay you cash.
05 Manage your placement from your dashboard
Sign in on My listing with Google or a magic link on the same email. From there you can raise the listing by paying only the difference. A live listing is not a cash prize.
What decides your position
Position comes from one number: the amount on that listing. Higher amount, higher place. Two listings can stand at the same amount, so the board needs a tie-break and it uses the listing date. Paid listings that tie stay in the order they were listed, oldest first, so an earlier customer is not pushed down by a later one merely matching them. While no payment processor is live and every listing stands at zero, the most recent listing sorts first instead, which stops a board nobody has paid for from freezing on whoever happened to arrive earliest. A paid listing always sorts above an unpaid one, whatever the dates.
The main board and the category boards
There are two views of the same listings. The homepage is the main board and ranks every listing against every other one. Each category is a second board applying the identical rule to one topic, so a listing holds two positions at once: its place among everything, and its place among its own category. The two move independently. Passing one listing in your category can leave your overall position unchanged, because listings from other categories may sit between you. Empty category boards stay published so the first listing in them has somewhere to go; they are not treated as a ranking until a listing exists.
What a listing page shows
Every listing gets its own page and everything on it is public: the name, the title or description, the category, the outbound link, the amount, the position on both boards, when it was listed, how many visitors have opened the link, and the public vote score. The page also names the listings directly above and below it on its category board and what passing the one above would cost. None of the money is hidden, because the point of a priced board is that a visitor can check what the current position cost.
Where the numbers come from
The server decides every amount that matters. The published #1 placement price is computed there and sent to the page; it is never a figure the browser supplies. The same holds for a raise, where the charge is the difference to the new amount rather than anything the form claims. That is why the price on the homepage is the price at checkout, and why there is no discount beneath it to ask for.
When checkout is unavailable
Paid checkout is enabled only when a payment processor is configured. Until one is, the board stays published and readable and no card is charged. Nothing on a row implies a payment that did not happen: a position standing at zero is exactly that, a listing nobody has paid for. When a processor is approved, the published prices apply from that point forward.
Published rules
The published #1 placement price, raises, and refunds are on the listing rules and pricing pages. FAQ. Longer answers live in the guides, including how to purchase #1 placement and whether a paid leaderboard is gambling.