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 leaderboard 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 leaderboard, 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 leaderboard for newsletters, not for group chats or NSFW platforms.
Where do clicks on a listing go?
- Straight to the URL on the listing, in a new tab, from your leaderboard row and from your own listing page alike.
- Clicks reach you with an inboxbid.lol UTM tag on them, so the visit shows up in your own analytics.
- Nothing about the link is conditional on your seat. Rank decides where you sit on the leaderboard, not how the link behaves.
How does a listing get raised?
- A listing is identified by its URL. Enter a URL that is already on the leaderboard and the bid is added to that listing's running total — there is no key to keep and nothing to restore.
- The leaderboard credits everything that listing has banked, so the checkout charges only the difference between its total and the seat being taken.
- Anyone can raise any listing. Paying towards one buys it rank; it does not transfer the seat or grant the right to edit what it says.
What happens after you pay?
- Your seat lands the moment Stripe confirms the payment, not before.
- A higher bid can move your listing down the leaderboard. Public listings can also be temporarily hidden for policy or payment review; the payment record remains available on your private receipt.
- Payment adjustments and refunds are handled through Stripe and shown on your private receipt. Being outbid on its own does not undo a settled contribution.