Rules
inboxbid is a public leaderboard for email newsletters. No ads, no revenue share, no editorial picks. The seat you hold is the total you have paid — nothing else.
How does ranking work?
- Bids are whole US dollars — $1 minimum, $250,000 maximum in a single payment, $1 at a time. Listings already on the board keep their total until they raise it or get outranked.
- Taking a seat costs $1 more than the total that seat holds. Bidding less still puts you on the board, at whatever seat that number reaches — a smaller bid is a lower seat, not an error.
- Equal totals keep the order they arrived in: the older listing holds the higher seat. Matching a total is not passing it.
- Your bids accumulate into one running total. Raising your listing costs the gap between that total and the seat you want, never the full amount again.
What can you list?
- An email newsletter — its signup page, its archive, or the homepage it lives on.
- A name up to 60 characters and a one-line description up to 120. Both are shown publicly the moment your payment clears.
- Links must be http or https. Logos must be https, so they don't break the page for readers on a secure connection.
- No chat or group-invite links, and nothing adult. This is a board for newsletters, not for group chats or NSFW platforms.
How do you prove a listing is yours?
- Your first payment mints a claim key. It is shown once, on the confirmation screen — save it.
- The key is what buys you the discount later: with it, climbing costs only the difference. Without it you would start a new listing at full price.
- Nobody else can raise or edit your listing, because every discounted bid has to present that key.
What happens after you pay?
- Your seat lands the moment Stripe confirms the payment, not before.
- Listings are permanent. A higher bid pushes you down the board; nothing takes you off it.
- Bids are final. Placement is applied immediately, so there are no refunds.
- 0% platform fee. Stripe's own card processing fee still applies, the same as anywhere else.